HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01015 2/1/01 "FEBRUARY 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ========================================================== Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:10:14 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for February Earlier this evening I posted Hardy's "Tess's Lament" and "The Pine Planters " as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for February, 2001. This discussion will be the third in a series dedicated to Hardy poems with female narrators. I invite your contributions to a month-long, on-line conversation about these two Hardy lyrics, each of which has an interesting intertextual relationship with one of Hardy's novels. 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 site, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they 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 message 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 as well as those concerning "Channel Firing" (January), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), and "A Singer Asleep" (July), are currently being edited for publication, the discussions of "Nature's Questioning" (January), "The Mother Mourns" (February), "The Subalterns" (March), "The Lacking Sense" (April), "In a Wood" (May), and "To Outer Nature" and "June Leaves and Autumn" (June), "Wagtail and Baby" and "On a Midsummer Eve" (July), "Afterwards" (August), "Shut Out That Moon" (September), "The Last Chrysanthemum" and "The Year's Awakening" (October), "The Night of the Dance" (November), nd "The Dark-Eyed Gentleman" (December), and "She At His Funeral" and "Her Confession" (January) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the February 2001 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:25:06 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Re:Unsubscribing from HARDY-L The instructions for unsubscribing from this list come with the instructions you receive when you subscribe. I DO wish people would read them. Enough unseemly temper on my part for now. To unsubscribe send an e-mail to: HARDY-L-request@mailhost1.csusm.edu Then simply write the word unsubscribe in the subject or re line. Do NOT write anything in the body of the e-mail. It's as easy as that. Betty Cortus ========== Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 01:08:11 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Some Gentle Reminders Dear List Members, Just a couple of reminders about some of the courtesies we should extend to our fellow members when writing to the list. 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If you no longer have the material you received on joining it might be a good idea to keep a copy of this message. Many Thanks, Betty Cortus ========== Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:43:19 -0500 rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu> Subject: Re: The New Member's Research Resource Page Greetings All: I have had seven messages today listing problems with accessing the new TTHA Member's Research Resource Archive. It appears that Netscape users are having the most trouble. Please update your Netscape browser or better still download and use Microsoft Explorer. I do apologise for this imposition. At best, if you use M Explorer and type in your TTHA membership number you will have free access to this Resource for one year minimum and thereafter forever upon membership renewal. TTHA will very shortly be posting Thomas Hardy's volume of *Life's Laughingstocks" to this new page and soon afterwards the rest of the Collected Poems. These will follow just as soon as they have been formatted, by the TTHA team, for online publication. TTHA's Poetry Concordance, complied by Martin Ray, will also be incorporated into the Members' RR page for your convenience: we hope to follow up with a Novels Concordance which will be prepared for us by Birgit Plietszch. Please bear with us while we construct this new resource. With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:18:21 -050 From:rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu> Subject: Re: The New Member's Research Resource Page PS For those of you didn't notice it, it was meant to be "compiled" For those who did notice, it was -- yes-- "complied" -- and meant to be "compiled" & Martin Ray will, I am sure, lead me to my pre-destined isle -- great leader that he is! Bless you all for your forbearance Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:15:23 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: The Dance!/Call For Papers PREVIEW: Call For Papers! (2 of 3) I'm hosting a symposium at the next TH International Conference in Dorchester, July 2002. My topic will be "Hardy and Dance" and submissions for short papers should be sent to me by email attachment and should not take longer than 20 minutes to deliver. This is a wide, wide topic -- from the semiotics of "dance" in the novels to TH's own personal interest in (he was willing to teach the Dorset Hornpipe to dramatists and more-- ) or "Dance" as mesmeric/erotic encounter in, say, "Fiddler of the Reels" and *The Return of the Native* or "Dance" as cultural diversity (TD)--- etc. Anyways--the official announcement for this program will not appear in publication until May 2002 in the Hardy Journal, so you are well-advised in advance! I look forward to hearing from you. With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan rm82@pantheon.yale.edu ==========