HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H02024 4/1/02 "APRIL 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ============================================================ Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:58:58 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for April Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "Hap" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for April 2002. This month's discussion will be the first in a series dedicated to Hardy's sonnets. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about one of Hardy's most popular and anthologized lyrics. 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://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called WebBoard, 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 wish, and then post it by using the button labeled Post the Message. 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 WebBoard. 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. At the present time, this month's discussion and those for January ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The Oxen"), and March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning") are the only ones available at the site. I have begun, however, to reconstruct the earlier discussions of poems with female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She At His Funeral," "Her Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters," "The Pink Frock," "The Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An Upbraiding," "The Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A Trampwoman's Tragedy") as well as those concerning Hardy's memorial poems ("The Last Signal," "Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats," "Shelley's Skylark," "At a House in Hampstead," "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back," and "To Shakespeare After Three Hundred Years"), and I will post them at the site as soon as I have completed work on them and leave them there until such time as they are edited and published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of TTHA's Occasional Papers. 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)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise," and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III (Summer 2000). Likewise, the discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother Mourns," "The Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer Nature," "June Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer Eve," "Afterwards," "Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Year's Awakening," and "The Night of the Dance" have been edited and published in *The Hardy Review*, IV (Summer 2001). All of these publications are available free or at a discounted price to TTHA members and may be ordered by others using an on-line form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above). Welcome to the April 2002 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:29:46 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Forum Rules Dear Members, Please remember that no advertising is allowed on the Forum. Thank you for your cooperation. Betty Cortus hardycor@owl.csusm.edu ========== Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 23:31:35 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:Shannon Rogers' "Book Reviews " Page Greetings Everyone! I'm delighted to say that TTHA's new page -- "BOOK REVIEWS OF WORKS ON TH" -- under Professor Shannon Rogers' directorship, is now online at: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm "BOOK REVIEWS OF WORKS ON TH" is listed under TTHA's "Special Host Services" and will remain in that spot for a month for everyone to use. After 30 days it will be sequestered in "Members' Research Resources" where TTHA members can access it along with the constantly updated "Checklist" of Hardy-related publications, the *Complete Poems* (not yet complete!), & Ottakers' Bookstore listings. TTHA hopes to have Martin Ray's Poetry Concordance on the Members' page shortly -- also the Archives of the Poetry Page with all those magnificent discussions of Hardy's poetry that have taken place on the "Poem of the Month" page (POTM) over the past few years. Shannon Rogers welcomes reviewers for her page -- please contact her direct if you are interested (seize this opportunity to publish!): The BOOK REVIEWS page will be updated with new reviews on a regular basis -- Our heartiest congratulations to Shannon, and many thanks to her for working on this exciting project. Thank you for your support. With every good wish to you all, Rosemarie Morgan President ========== From: "eunsung lee" Subject: call for papers Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:59:54 +0000 Call For Papers POSTMODERN MEDIEVALISMS The Seventeenth Annual International Meeting of the Conference on Medievalism (Associated Conference of Studies in Medievalism) 18-19 October 2002 - University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa Distinguished plenary speakers: Verlyn Flieger, U of Maryland-College Park John Ganim, U of California-Riverside William Paden, Northwestern U Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist U Proposals for individual papers, entire sessions (three twenty-minute papers), or other forms of address are currently being solicited for the 2002 Conference on Medievalism. Medievalism concerns documenting and exploring all instances of the evocation of what is taken to be medieval. Typical questions of a scholar of medievalism might include "why does a certain pattern of sound in a modern symphony evoke as sense of the medieval" or "how does a film represent the medieval and to what purposes?" >From its inception, the medieval has been an historiographical, aesthetic, political concept, and studies in medievalism endeavors self-consciously to understand these and other dimensions of this powerfully defining concept. This year, we are particularly concerned to see how the postmodern-broadly defined-conceptualizes the medieval. The Conference on Medievalism has proven to be an annual event of collegial exchange among scholars from fields usually kept separate by the structure of American as well as international academia. It has also proven to be fertile ground for both Studies in Medievalism and The Year's Work in Medievalism, two highly interdisciplinary journals devoted to the advancement of studying the ways and purposes people invoke the medieval. The 2002 conference is being hosted at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, 50614-0502. Richard Utz, 319/273-3879, Jesse Swan, 319/273-2089. Information about the conference can also be obtained from Gwendolyn Morgan, Director of Conferences: Studies in Medievalism, Department of English, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, 406/994-5190, and on our website: http://www.uni.edu/~utz/medievalism/ Please send proposals to the hosts, who will acknowledge all correspondence. Deadline for proposals: 02 August 2002 ========== Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:50:26 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Virus Virus warning-- Please don't open any attachments sent in my name until after the weekend (April 28). I have a virus which is sending out stuff from my computer -- Shannon and David Havird have both received items from me which I did not send. So please, for now, ignore any attachments coming from me. I'm having the cure PRONTO. Apologies for the inconvenience, Cheers, Rosemarie ========== Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 06:57:23 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: RE:All Clear Greetings-- Just to say that the Worm in the Machine has been exterminated and that all is now spanking clean! Apologies to those of you who received all those tedious messages off my computer! And now back to Hardy. 1. I have a couple of recently published books for review -- for TTHA's "Book Reviews" page: Wayne Burn, *The Flesh and the Spirit in Seven Hardy Novels* Thomas Hardy,*Memories of Church Restoration,* edited by Alan Whitworth Would anyone interested in reviewing either or both of these publications please contact me direct. 2. I'll be posting the next of the "baby" poems in a minute or so -- very many grateful thanks to Andy for his insightful comments on "The Polar Bear." Cheers, Rosemarie ========== Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:09:17 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: MALFUNCTION Notice- A TTHA Member has brought to my notice a MALFUNCTION on the MEMBERS' Research page. He has been trying to access the "Extended Bibliography" (Audio Tapes etc). I'm afraid this is temporarily out of order but is being attended to. Apologies for the inconvenience. Back soon, Rosemarie ========== Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:22:56 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: MALFUNCTION/no more Just to say the malfunctioning "Extended Bibliography" on TTHA MEMBERS' Page is now back in working order. Grateful thanks to Seth Lachterman for his assistance. With every good wish to one and all, Rosemarie ==========