HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01047 5/1/01 "MAY 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ============================================================ Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:44:26 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for May Earlier today I posted Hardy's "The Chapel-Organist" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for May, 2001. This discussion will be the sixth in a series dedicated to Hardy poems with female narrators. I invite your contributions to a month-long, on-line conversation about this Hardy narrative, which has reminded many readers of the work of Robert Browning. 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), and "The Dark-Eyed Gentleman" (December), "She At His Funeral" and "Her Confession" (January), "Tess's Lament" and "The Pine-Planters" (February), "The Pink Frock" and "The Beauty" (March), and "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town" and "An Upbraiding" (April) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the May 2001 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:51:58 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Book Offer Greetings All! I have just received the offer below, as follows: __________ Dear Professor Morgan, I would very much like to offer members of the Thomas Hardy Association and Thomas Hardy Society a 20% discount on the new paperback edition of _The Life of Thomas Hardy_ by Paul Turner. The book received a favourable review from The Thomas Hardy Journal when it was published in hardback, and I think many of your members might be interested to know it's now available in paperback. I am attaching a copy of the offer I hope to mail or insert. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely, Laura Montgomery Marketing Manager Philosophy, Literature, Cultural Studies and Linguistics Blackwell Publishers ________________ Those members who are interested in taking advantage of this offer can email me (Rosemarie Morgan) privately and I will forward a copy of the "special" book-order-form concerned (I have removed this order form from e-attachment to this message for reasons of security) With every good wish, Rosemarie Morgan ========== Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:04:45 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Book Offer Greetings All! Some improvements on the last "Turner" offer (my previous message today) which I'll post here immediately having had an onrush of inquiries for this book. Please contact me (as per last message) for the TTHA members' discounted order form. So here goes (from the Blackwell publishers)-- Cheers, RM: ______________ Thanks Rosemarie. I've revised the order form and am attaching the new version below. I've increased the discount to 30%. Sorry for any confusion, and thanks again for all your help. Best Wishes, Laura ------ NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! The Life of Thomas Hardy by Paul Turner Readers might be interested to hear that Blackwell Publishers are offering a special 30% discount on the new paperback edition of The Life of Thomas Hardy for members of the Thomas Hardy Society and Thomas Hardy Association. This is quite a new kind of critical biography - not just a biography with some literary criticism thrown in, but a systematic attempt to show, book by book, how an author's life suggested and affected his complete works. Each chapter deals with a single book and comprises two sections, one biographical, one critical. Together they relate in a concise by readable and drily humorous style, all of the important facts known about Hardy's life, and then offer a fresh perspective on the individual books. Here 'life' includes not merely external experiences, but also and especially internal ones, eg. his reading of literature and his experience of music and visual art. For the study concentrates on Hardy's inner life, expressed largely in his own words, drawn from his letters, notes, diaries, and the autobiography that he wrote himself, but got his second wife to publish as her own biography of him. From this inner life came the creative promptings for each book. Now, for the first time, such promptings are examined comprehensively and in detail - from the description of Hardy's childhood home in under the Greenwood Tree to the heavy cold that he caught in May 1906, and passed on to Napoleon in The Dynasts. Paul Turner's examination reveals a wealth of new perspectives on Hardy. In particular, he focuses on: * Hardy's use of Greek and Latin literature * The importance of animals in his life and work * His concern with the unconscious * His marriages * The influence of Victorian authors * Other forms of input from Hardy's life ____________ END OF MESSAGE ========== Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:46:52 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Book Offer Greetings All! Re the message below posted here on the Forum last week it would save me some time in processing your requests if you could (if you can find it) quote your membership number upon application for Blackwell's 30% discount form. Gratitudes! Rosemarie Morgan PS. Your membership number is the same as that needed for accessing the new TTHA Members' Research & Resource Page ========== Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:32:51 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:Professor Susan Keen Greetings All! Congratulations to Professor Suzanne Keen who hosts the Student Papers page for TTHA; she has been promoted to Full Professor at Washington and Lee University. And her new book, _Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction_, is forthcoming in the spring of 2002 from U of Toronto P. On behalf of The Thomas Hardy Association I would like to wish Suzanne the very best of luck, health and happiness in the future -- may she continue to prosper! Cheers, Rosemarie Morgan ==========