HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO3027 5/1/03 "MAY 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS"
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Subject: RE: The Mayor of Casterbridge video
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 08:55:17 -0500
From: "Mink, Joanna" <joanna.mink@mnsu.edu>
John, It was, indeed, a Hardyean coincidence that I had
pre-ordered my copy (on DVD) just minutes before your message
to the Forum arrived. I ordered it for my school library--and
then decided to treat myself as well. I know I'll watch it
again and again. We're in the midst of the end of the semester,
but I haven't deleted your earlier reply about a possible
Hardy-related southern MN "do." I just thought that we could
show a screening of "The Mayor" (Alan Bates) but it's over
5 hours long. Let's still keep in touch about some kind of
get-together, maybe in the early fall. I'll be in Dorset
for a few weeks this summer, and I know that I'll see Furse
Swann and maybe could get a list of the THS members in this
area. Cheers, JoAnna
JoAnna S. Mink
Professor of English
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001
joanna.mink@mnsu.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: harrybatt [mailto:harrybatt@mn.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 4:25 PM
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Subject: Re: The Mayor of Casterbridge video
Joanna: Tousen tak for the tip about this vhs. I
wasn't aware that there was going to be a vhs available.
It is a tape that I certainly want to order.
john bridell
----- Original Message -----
From: Mink, Joanna
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 3:16 PM
Subject: The Mayor of Casterbridge video
The earlier production (1970's?) of _The Mayor_
(starring Alan Bates) is set to be released on
VHS and DVD on or about May 27, 2003.
(At least, this is the case in the US and Canada.) I saw
it advertised on target.com for 59.95 USD but amazon.com lists it
for 44.96 USD with free shipping. It can be pre-ordered both
places. I vaguely remember seeing it televised in
the '70s. It must have been quite well-done for me to
recall it after all these years!
JoAnna S. Mink
Professor of English
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001
joanna.mink@mnsu.edu
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Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 16:19:13 -0500
From: Bill Morgan <wwmorgan@mail.ilstu.edu>
Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for May
Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "A Sheep Fair" and "Last Look round
St. Martin's Fair" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for May 2003. This
discussion will be the fifth in a series dedicated to a group of Hardy
poems from the 1920's that seem to aspire to a kind of camera-like
narrative neutrality. I invite your contributions to an on-line
conversation about the poems over the course of the month.
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 poems as well as any comments they 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.
Besides this month's discussion and those of January ("Winter Night
in Woodland"), February ("Ice on the Highway"), and March ("A Light
Snow-Fall After Frost"), a full year of conversations in 2002 about some of
Hardy's sonnets are available at the site: April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar
Eclipse"), June ("She, to Him, I-IV"), July ("Her Reproach" and "Her
Confession"), August ("To an Actress" and "To an Impersonator of Rosalind,"
September ("In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and
"Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter"), October
("Embarcation" and "Departure), November ("The Pity of It" and "Often When
Warring"), and December ("We Are Getting to the End" and "Thoughts from
Sophocles").
The discussions of Hardy's memorial and holiday poems from August
2001 ("The Last Signal"), September ("Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius" and
"Shelley's Skylark"), October ("At a House in Hampstead" and "At Lulworth
Cove a Century Back"), November ("To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred
Years"), December ("Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden" and "George
Meredith"), January 2002 ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The
Oxen"), March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning") are also posted at the site
and open for contributions until sometime later in the year when they will
be edited for publication in *The Hardy Review*.
The 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") have just been published in *The Hardy
Review*, V.
All of the older discussions will remain posted at the site 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). 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 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for May 2003.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
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Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 13:07:51 -0400
From: Robert Schweik <schweikr@localnet.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Warnings Etc.
I'd like to add just one brief note to Betty's. Once Betty's injunction
against
sending email attachments had been made, I don't recall *any* instances
(except, perhaps, an inadvertent one of my own) from members of the
Forum that included attachments. They all seem to come from
pernicious outside sources and are (for which I think we are all grateful)
stripped of their attachments before reaching us.
I believe the Forum owes a debt of gratitude for the extraordinary work done
on our behalf to those who maintain the server at California State University,
San Marcos, and who so effectively update its fire-wall as well as perform
many other behind-the-scenes services on our behalf.
Betty, absent dissent, would you please express the gratitude of the TTHA,
and for all other members of the Forum, for the exceptional service they have
provided us?
Bob Schweik
At 01:30 AM 05/04/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>Some members seem to post messages with attachments to the Forum.
>
>It is prohibited.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Betty and/or John Cortus" <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
>To: "HARDY-L" <HARDY-L@csusm.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, 06 March, 2003 8:36 AM
>Subject: Warnings Etc.
>
>
> > Dear Members,
> > Thanks to those of you who clarified the facts about virus warning
>hoaxes.
> > Because our Server, California State University, San Marcos
>constantly
> > updates its fire-wall it is unlikely that your computer will be
>infected
> > from the Forum. However, unfortunately, a minimum amount of spam
>or
> > nuisance material does occasionly slip through. Just as a
>reminder,
>please
> > do not send attachments with your messages to the Forum, and delete
>any
> > Forum mail containing attachments without opening them.
> > Please feel free to write to me directly if you have any concerns
>about
> > receiving mail from this mailing list.
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> >
> > Betty Cortus, Forum Director
> > hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
> >
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 10:39:07 -0700
From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Re: Fw: Warnings Etc.
Thank you Bob. I certainly will pass on your message to CSUSM. Although a
few nuisance messages slip through occasionally--wonderful financial deals
from African countries etc!--I trust we are all sophisticated enough to
recognize them as scams. Any message coming to the Forum with an
attachment is invariably suspect. Delete it immediately without opening it.
Thank you all for your vigilance,
Betty
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Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 12:57:14 -0700
From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Re: Welcome New Members
Dear Janine,
Welcome to the Hardy Forum. I hope you will enjoy the discussions this
list provides. We have a very diverse membership. Our subscribers come
from many different countries from all over the globe. Hiroaki, I believe
you are our first subscriber from Costa Rica. Welcome to you too. Our
members vary also in their familiarity with Hardy. They range from
students just beginning to discover his works, to individuals who simply
enjoy reading him, to some of the most eminent Hardy scholars. The Forum
is a real democracy, all our members are valued, and we appreciate hearing
from all of you.
Best Wishes,
Betty Cortus.
Forum Director
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From: "schweik" <schweik@fredonia.edu
Subject: Fwd: Conference Announcement
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 21:30:20 GMT
I thought the following conference announcement might
be of interest to some Forum members.
Bob Schweik
----- Message Forwarded on Mon, 05 May 2003 21:28:39 GMT
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From: Richard Fulton <rfulton@WHATCOM.CTC.EDU>
To: ELCS-L@listserv.utoronto.ca
Subject: Visawus CFP
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 10:08:55 -0700
CALL FOR PAPERS (REMINDER)
VISAWUS 2003
Victorian Legacies
The Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the
Western United States (VISAWUS) announces its eighth annual
conference, hosted by the Departments of English at
Southwest Texas State University and the University of
Texas-Austin, in Austin, Texas, October 8-11, 2003.
The focus of this year's conference is Victorian Legacies.
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers or full panels
(three papers) addressing the full range of the Victorians'
legacies to their inheritors: attitudes, music, an
education system, political divisions in the colonized world
, the class system, an urge to travel, press standards etc.
Papers may focus on the Victorian end or the post-Victorian
end of the legacy. Paper proposals, a maximum of the
equivalent of two double-spaced pages, should be emailed to:
Prof. George Griffith
Ggriffith@csc1.csc.edu
We are pleased to announce that the 2003 keynote speaker
will be Martin Wiener, Professor of History, Rice University
Further information concerning fees, local hotels,
conference venues, and transportation is available from
Conference Chair Kathryn Ledbetter at Kledbetter@swt.edu.
Deadline for proposals is June 6, 2003.
Robert Schweik
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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From: David Herrick <david.herrick@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Attachment Problems
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:20:50 +0100
Just to say that I use Outlook and Hardy list messages are often flagged as
having an attachment when they arrive but the flag disappears when I open
the message and there is no evidence of an attachment. I haven't paid
enough attention to be able to say whether it is messages from certain users
or just random messages (it certainly isn't all messges).
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Betty and/or John Cortus [mailto:hardycor@owl.csusm.edu]
> Sent: 04 May 2003 23:54
> To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
> Subject: Re:Attachment Problems
>
>
> Dear Hiroaki,
> I am not sure why you are receiving Forum postings from members with
> attachments. I don't believe that the rest of us are, although ,
> subscribers please let me know if this is happening to you as
> well. Gary's
> message, to the best of my knowledge came to the list and was distributed
> without any attachment present. Do you think that these attachments might
> be coming from your own Internet Server Hiroaki? It might be a good idea
> to contact them to see if they can identify the problem. Please let the
> list members know if you get to the bottom of the mystery.
> Best Wishes,
> Betty Cortus
>
>
> > I have ventured to open this mail and another from Gary. Web mail
> >shows that they have attachments. I was quite sure it is not
> >mal-intended. What I am saying is this. I do not open the attachments
> >but they seem to be text and html files of the same content.
>
> >------------------
> >Hiroaki Tamura
> >Fax to: (506)442-6072
> >Email to: h_tam_cr@yahoo.co.jp
> >Snail mail to: Apdo:2139-4050,
> > Alajuela, Costa Rica
>
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Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 13:33:20 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: The Hardy Review, Volume V (2002)
Greetings All:
Just to let you know that Volume V of *The Hardy Review* (2002) has now been
distributed to all TTHA members across the globe
(for non-members the order form is online at
<http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/OrderForms/review.html> ).
Topics include: recent Forum discussions (by yourselves) on "Hardy's Tragic
Heroes," "Biblical Allusions in *Tess*," "Possible New Hardy Poems," and POTM
discussions on 10 Hardy poems (the female voice in TH's verse). Martin Ray
contributes an invaluable & scrupulously-researched piece -- "Allusions and
Annotations to TH's *Life,* "-- a research item that TTHA now has on
searchable
CD ROM (selling at $10 to members). Betty Cortus writes on regeneration and
metamorphosis in some of Hardy's poems, and Andrew Radford discusses TH's
treatment of new technology in "The Marriage of Ancient and Modern in *A
Laodicean*. There are also poems by Bill Morgan, Isobel Robin and Joanne
Schweik. Finally, the short Symposium papers on "Hardy and Dance" from the
2002 Hardy Conference also feature in this edition complete with illustrations
and short musical scores of "The Girl I Left Behind Me" and "The Sergeant's
Song."
For more information please consult *The Checklist* on the Members' Research
Resource : http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
I should mention that overseas members may not have recievd their *Review*
copy
just yet. You can expect it to arrive around the end of May. If your copy
hasn't arrived by June 1st please get back to me and I'll re-check the outbox
mailings.
With every Good Wish,
Rosemarie
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Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 13:47:08 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Back again Folks! --- to say that after returning to Yale from the
inaugural ceremony at Milner Library, celebrating the initiation of The
Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy Criticism, I found a
beautiful 1894 edition of Annie Macdonell's *Thomas Hardy* awaiting me on
my desk. This has been donated by my dear friend, Jim Gibson. Thank you,
thank you, Jim! The book is bound in red cloth with gilt titling and has
"Contemporary Writers" embossed on the upper cover. This book is listed as
"scarce."
Unfortunately, I'm becoming more & more susceptible to Collector's Joy as
each newly-donated book comes my way. Increasingly, it becomes a wrench to
let go as I send them on to the THHA Collection at Milner Library.
On behalf of Bill Morgan and TTHA Board of Directors I'd like to thank Jim
for his beautiful and most generous gift.
I've made an entry for this book at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie.
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Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:22:24 -0700
From: Betty and/or John Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Re: Re:Attachment Problems
Dear Members,
I will copy below the message Rosemarie sent privately to Ann regarding
suspicious attachments. It says it all.
Thanks Rosemarie,
Betty.
Dear Ann--
TTHA apologises for these emails with hoax attachments. You are correct to
leave them unopened and I'm sorry --as Betty will also say-- that these
happen. There's not a lot we can do to stop them aside from getting hold of
sophisticated and expensive software which big profit-making industries can
afford but which our kind host at Uni California doesn't possess. And even
then the hackers may find a way. Unfortunately they target List- Serves
such as ours for obvious reasons of reaching a large community of
subscribers in one swoop.
After a while the subject headings become an automatic trigger, at our
end-- yours and mine -- to hit delete. This doesn't make them any the less
unacceptable and if we can find a way to rid ourselves of these nuisances
we surely will!
Thanks for the feedback, it is always welcome.
Best,
Rosemarie Morgan
TTHA President.
Ann Wrote:
>I regularly receive suspect mail under the Hardy list with no message or
>just a short one e.g. "I think you will find this useful" and an attachment.
>The subject line suggests that the attachment is a Windows add on or tool,
>or a virus checker. I always delete these messages immediately.
>Just to say these messages do not detract from my enjoyment of the Hardy
>posts from "true" members.
>
>Yours
>Ann Jefferies
>aj@annjefferies.worldonline.co.uk
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Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:53:25 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy Criticism
Hi folks-- I've made an album from some snapshots taken during Inaugural
Week -- but am still awaiting the press items.
The pics can be found at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie.
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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:32:17 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Newly Available Accommodations inWessex
Dear Hardyans,
Those of you travelling to the UK this summer will be interested in the
newly available rentals in Wessex -- featured on:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Promotions/promotio.htm
With every good wish,
RM
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:18:25 -0700
From: Betty Cortus <hardycor@owl.csusm.edu>
Subject: Server Problems
Apologies for the repetition of my earlier message. CSUSM has been having
serious problems with their e-mailing systems. I have been told that they
have thousands of messages from yesterday backed up which have not yet been
delivered. They worked on it all through last night. If you have sent a
posting to the Forum which has not yet appeared, it should be come through
when the problem is corrected.
Thank you for your patience,
Betty
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:49:17 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: NEW!
Greetings all:
I believe you all now have your copy of *The Hardy Review, Volume V* (with the
exception of Japan and Australia). There, you'll find Martin Ray's detailed
annotation of allusions used by Hardy the *Life*; this has led many members to
request that I post news (online) of the electronic version of this resource,
recently brought out by TTHA.
'Ere 'tis:
NEW ON SEARCHABLE CDROM: ANNOTATIONS to AND ALLUSIONS in HARDY'S
Autobiographical LIFE
On The Hardy Association's front page, at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:45:37 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: NEW! Revised message
At 11:49 AM 5/19/03 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Greetings all:
>
>I believe you all now have your copy of *The Hardy Review, Volume V* (with
the
>exception of Japan and Australia). There, you'll find Martin Ray's detailed
>annotation of allusions used by Hardy the *Life*; this has led many
members to
>request that I post news (online) of the electronic version of this resource,
>recently brought out by TTHA.
>
>'Ere 'tis:
>
>http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/Allusions.html
>
>On The Hardy Association's front page, at:
>
>http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
>
>Cheers,
>Rosemarie
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:46:35 -0400
From: Rosemarie Morgan <rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu>
Subject: Re: The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy
Criticism
Hi folks-- I've just received an Illinois newspaper clipping about Bill
Morgan and The Thomas Hardy Association Collection of Early Hardy
Criticism -- I've posted it -- as the "Pantagraph" newspaper -- at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/COLLECTION.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie.
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