HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0041 5/2/00 "MAY 2000 ANNOUNCEMENTS" =================================================== F From: wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 10:56:09 -0500 Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for May : Yesterday afternoon, I posted Hardy's "In a Wood" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for May, 2000. This month's poem is the fifth in a series of Hardy pieces about the meaning of the natural world. You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm or by going directly to http://netforum.ilstu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/ths/a/1/ Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month discussion, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poem as well as any comments it may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you like, and finally submit your contribution by clicking on the button labeled Post the Message. (*DON'T use the Reset Message button*; you will lose your work.) If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your response in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of NetForum. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu. While the discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)] and while the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems are currently being edited for publication, the discussions of "Channel Firing" (January), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), "A Singer Asleep" (July), "Nature's Questioning" (January), "The Mother Mourns" (February), "The Subalterns" (March), and "The Lacking Sense" (April) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the May 2000 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:24:56 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: TTHA Presentation An Announcement: To all TTHA Directors. Birgit is about to start preparations for TTHA presentation at the International Hardy conference in July. This time we'll be using a data projector via Birgit's computer. This should makes things easier than with the overhead projector we used at our last little stage appearance in 1998. I believe all but a couple of TTHA directors will be present in Dorchester. Birgit will be contacting you some time in the next week to outline what she will need from you and your web page (this message it to get the thinking started). We will stage it much as we did last time with individuals speaking about their own projects -- assisted by the data projector to illustrate your points. Please send all suggestions, ideas, all aid and advice, to Birgit at: bp10@st-andrews.ac.uk. Thank you everyone! With every good wish, Rosemarie ========== Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 12:16:02 +0100 From: Birgit Plietzsch Subject: Virus warning!!! Do NOT open messages from sehar/meher. Hello everybody! I have just realised that the 2 messages sent to this list earlier today by sehar / meher contain a virus. Please delete them, and don't open the attachment!!! Best wishes, Birgit ========== Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 21:13:54 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: New Book! CONGRATULATIONS! to Shanta Dutta on her first book: *Ambivalence in Hardy: A Study of his Attitude to Women*, published by Macmillan (UK) & St Martin's Press (USA) in October 1999 and now finally available to the general public! Dr Dutta is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta and a Vice President of The Thomas Hardy Association. *Ambivalence in Hardy* focusses on an analysis of the two "minor" Hardy novels, *The Hand of Ethelberta*, *Two on a Tower,* together with the short stories and *The Woodlanders,* as well as making generous references to Hardy's letters, autobiography, literary notebooks, marginalia, and the letters of his two wives -- seeking to blend a biographical approach with a feminist reading. We wish Shanta every success with her new book! with all good wishes, Rosemarie Morgan ==========