Research Guides: Fine Arts in Special Collections : Creative Writing

Subject Headings

Subject headings refer to a controlled vocabulary that librarians use to organize materials. Using these terms can help bring up results more specifically related to these topics.

Creative Writing
Drama--Technique
Fiction--Technique
Playwriting
Poetry
Short Story

Using Art as Primary and Secondary Sources

When conducting research, primary sources are materials that are created by the people participating in an event or practice that you are trying to study. When discussing art, primary sources are the original pieces of art themselves: an original painting, pictures of a live performance piece, an original poem.

Secondary sources in art would include exhibit catalogues, periodical reviews, theses and dissertations on specific pieces of art or art movements, and other types of written work discussing primary sources.

Collection Highlights

Amazing Grace
This digital collection contains twenty-three issues of the student publication Amazing Grace. Each issue features student poetry, prose, and artwork that speak to the leftist counterculture at FSU in the early 1970s.
Dorothea Leona Dubler Papers
Dorothea Leona Dubler is an art educator in the state of Florida, as well as an award winning poet and a founding member of the First Florida Poets Chapter of the Florida State Poets Association. This collection contains her published and unpublished poetry, scholarly work, and photographs documenting her life and work.
Janet Burroway Papers
Janet Burroway is Professor Emeritus at Florida State University, and is the author of plays, poetry, essays, children's books, novels, and a number of literary columns. This collection contains galleys, drafts, manuscripts, short stories, poetry, plays, and other writings from Burroway, dating 1955-1993.
Kathleen Raine Collection
This collection contains the books, pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts, and correspondence of the poet Kathleen Raine,
Mary Jane Ryals Papers
Dr. Mary Jane Ryals is a professor at the FSU College of Business, as well as an author and poet. This collection includes handwritten outlines and drafts of several short stories, and an early draft of her book A Messy Job I Never Did See a Girl Do.

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