H05039 MAY 2005 ANNOUNCEMENTS - 5/1/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________
MAY 2005 POTM
FILM PAGE DIRECTOR
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
JIM GIBSON MEMORIAL PAGE
GERBER DAVIS BIBLIOGRAPHY
LEAVING THE FORUM
A PLEA
STUDY OF BRITISH NOVELS
FORUM PROTOCOL
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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for May
Date: May 1, 2005 11:45:13 AM PDT
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Earlier today I posted Hardy's "Domicilium" as the TTHA Poem of the Month for May, 2005. This discussion will be the first in a short series dedicated to some of Hardy's memorial poems for members of his own birth family. I invite your contributions to an on-line conversation about this, Hardy's earliest known poem, written when he was in his teens, over the course of the month of May.
As usual, 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. 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 the recent series on Hardy's autumnal poems (October 2004--"Autumn in King's Hintock Park," November 2004--"The Later Autumn," and December 2004--"An Autumn Rain-Scene"), there is a series devoted to epigraphs, epigrams, epitaphs, and other pithy sayings in verse (May through September, 2004). And the four discussions in the most recent series on frequently-anthologized and frequently-taught Hardy poems--January ("The Impercipient"), February ("Channel Firing"), March ("He Never Expected Much"), and April ("A Broken Appointment") are of course also available at the site.
The eight discussions from 2003 and 2004 that are concerned with the poems that appear last in Hardy's volumes of verse have just been published in the newest Hardy Review (volume VII). The discussions are as follows: September ("I Look Into My Glass"), October ("Agnosto Theo"), November ("A Young Man's Epigram on Existence"), December ("A Poet" and "In the Moonlight"), January ("Afterwards"), February ("Surview"), March ("Why Do I?"), April ("He Resolves to Say No More").
All twelve discussions from 2003 are posted: January ("Winter Night in Woodland"), February ("Ice on the Highway"), March ("A Light Snow-Fall After Frost"), April ("The Sheep-Boy"), May ("A Sheep Fair" and "Last Look round St. Martin's Fair"), June ("A Backward Spring," "Last Week in October," and "Shortening Days at the Homestead"), July ("No Buyers" and "An East-End Curate"), August ("Life and Death at Sunrise"), September ("I Look Into My Glass"), October ("Agnosto Theo"), November ("A Young Man's Epigram on Existence"), December ("A Poet" and "In the Moonlight"), January ("Afterwards"), February ("Surview"), March ("Why Do I?"), and April ("He Resolves to Say No More"), 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.
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 been published in The Hardy Review, V (Winter 2002).
All of the older discussions will remain posted at the site until such time as they are moved to the Members' Resource section of the TTHA website or 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 Discussions for May of 2005.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
Director, the Thomas Hardy Poetry Page
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: New FILM Page Director
Date: May 5, 2005 9:59:49 AM PDT
Greetings all --
I have now established a VP page for TTHA's new FILM PAGE director, Paul Niemeyer.
This can be found at:
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/VPBOX/Paul.htm
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Book Announcement
Date: May 10, 2005 11:55:48 AM PDT
Dear All,
Ronan Scanlan, who has written a book, based on *The Mayor of Casterbridge*
but set in Ireland, has sent me word of its forthcoming appearance. I'm
afraid I've lost track of the title, but you should be able to track it by
author if you're interested.
All the best,
Betty
Ronan Wrote:
Hi Betty, Remember me? I'm the guy who was writing that tribute novel
to Thomas Hardy. Well, it's due to officially launch on 2 June (Hardy's
birthday). I admit it's only a pale imitation of the original but I just
hope some people around the world enjoy the story for its own sake. In
case you or any of your Hardy fanatic friends would like to purchase a
copy, it's already listed in all the major internet bookshops. Click the
link below to see it at Amazon...
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595344143>www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS
IN/0595344143 Thanks again for all your advice re copyright dates, etc.
back in the autumn. And I'd be greatly obliged if you could spread the
word for me to some of your Hardy friends around the world! Thanks and
Regards, Ronan.
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: JIM GIBSON's MEMORIAL PAGE
Date: May 10, 2005 1:56:27 PM PDT
Greetings All -
Jim Gibson's Memorial Page can now be viewed at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/VPBOX/james.htm
May He Rest in Peace.
Rosemarie
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: The Gerber-Davis Bibliography
Date: May 19, 2005 7:30:03 PM PDT
Greetings all!
I am delighted to be able to say that (with only one decade to go) I've now finished editing & uploading the 1950s section of The Gerber-Davis Annotated Bibliography.
This can be found on the Member's Page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Members/MRRHome.htm)
Below are a couple of shorter (random) samples.
Grateful thanks to Gene Davis for his invaluable help in preparing these files to go online.
Cheers,
Rosemarie.
SAMPLES FROM THE 1950s
2349 Van Doren, Mark. Introduction to Poetry (NY: William Sloane Associates, 1951), pp. 98-102, 107-10, 418-26.
The three stanzas of "Drummer Hodge" present three times present, past, future. "The Roman Road" compares two kinds of time two lines in space one historical, the other within memory; the latter seems longer. [Reprints ten poems.]
2359 Dike, D. A. "A Modern Oedipus: The Mayor of Casterbridge," Essays in Criticism, II (April 1952), 169-79.
The tragic pattern in The Mayor of Casterbridge is analogous to that in Oedipus Rex, yet achieves the stature of original expression because it arises naturally out of content. H surpasses reality to establish the archetypal conflicts implicit in the immediate context. The Market is the nineteenth-century equivalent of fate which spins the wheel of fortune. The tragic hero, Henchard, is at once an individual and the servant-leader of the community, a duality which first precipitates, then intensifies, his fall. The relations between the characters, moreover, are influenced by money, with the Market as the symbol around and through which their destinies are fulfilled. In short, instinct and emotion are equated to financial transactions. Ultimately reverting to the ancient model, H depicts alienation and isolation as the penalties for Henchard's sin. Henchard's will is a final judgment on his society, not only by him, but, broadly taken, by H as well. Human destiny is linked with cultural depravity in such a way that blurs the distinction between the guilt and innocence of the individual, and the tragic pattern must continue to repeat itself.
2485 Bellman, Samuel I. "How 'New' a Woman Was Hardy's Sue Bridehead?" Colby Library Quarterly, IV (Aug 1956), 137-39.
Although Sue is "remarkable for her self-assertion," hers is not, by any means, the first portrait of a feminist. Aristophanes had described the type, and the "new woman" of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries is the subject of a recent critical study. In the nineteenth century, notable portraits appear in such works as Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard and Ibsen's A Doll's House.
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From: jww543@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: The Gerber-Davis Bibliography
Date: May 20, 2005 5:31:27 PM PDT
Dear Rosemarie,
What a marvelous gift you have given us! Thank you so very much.
All best wishes,
Julian
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Leaving the Forum
Date: May 23, 2005 6:46:05 AM PDT
Once again it seems I have to remind people how to unsubscribe from the
Forum.
Please do not write to the list itself, where every member receives your
message.
Instead, send an e-mail to:
HARDY-L-request@mailhost1.csusm.edu
then write the word unsubscribe in the subject line
NOT in the body of the message.
These instructions are clearly written on the Forum Page of the TTHA website.
Many Thanks,
Betty Cortus
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: A Plea
Date: May 23, 2005 7:16:07 AM PDT
I have been thoroughly enjoying the current discussion, but, while I am in
a testy mood, PLEASE, dear friends, please -- erase long messages from
earlier posters when you use the reply function.
John and I archive the postings manually, and having to remove all that
excess verbiage extends a three-four day task each month to a much longer
one. By all means, however, retain a small pertinent portion of an
earlier message, if it is absolutely necessary for the clarity of your own.
Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated by your hard-working archivists.
Betty
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From: englishnovels@yahoo.com
Subject: Please Participate in Study of British Novels
Date: May 24, 2005 8:41:07 AM PDT
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
About three months ago I posted a message to this list inviting subscribers to participate in a large-scale online research project designed to gather information about characters in British novels of the longer nineteenth century. The project was conceived by two literary scholars and two psychologists (Joe Carroll, University of Missouri, St Louis; Jon Gottschall, St. Lawrence University; John Johnson, Penn State University; and Dan Kruger, University of Michigan) in hopes of addressing questions relevant to both disciplines. We asked scholars and avid readers to come to our website and fill out questionnaires on any one of 2100 characters in 202 British novels (including 7 novels by Thomas Hardy), beginning with Austen and ending with Forster. We are very grateful to those of you who took the time to participate (while reminding you that you are encouraged to fill out questionnaires on multiple characters).& nbsp;
Appended below is my original posting, which describes our study in more detail. The website address is: http://survey.ehap.isr.umich.edu/carroll-intro.html.
I am re-posting this material now in hopes of introducing our study to new members of this list and bringing it to the attention of scholars who may not have had the time for it in the heart of the semester. Well over 1000 other readers have now participated in the study, and the more who do participate, the more robust and interesting the findings will be.
Thank you very much,
Jonathan Gottschall
St. Lawrence University
ORIGINAL POSTING
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
We would like to invite anyone who is interested in British novels of the longer nineteenth century to participate in a collective research project. We are a research team consisting of two literary scholars and two psychologists (Joe Carroll, Jon Gottschall, John Johnson, and Dan Kruger). We have put together a website questionnaire on about 2,100 characters from 202 novels-from Austen through Forster.
Here is the website address: http://survey.ehap.isr.umich.edu/carroll-intro.html
The novels are listed by author's name, in alphabetical order, and under the title of each novel we have listed a selection of characters-an average of about ten characters per novel. Participants can fill out questionnaires on as few or as many characters in as few or as many novels as they choose. Filling out a questionnaire on a single character usually takes less than five minutes. All participation is anonymous. Please feel free to distribute this URL to students, friends, and colleagues.
The questionnaire contains questions on each character's motives, personality, and agonistic status (protagonist/antagonist), on the criteria the character uses for selecting a spouse or romantic partner, and on your emotional response to the character.
The last ten questions on the questionnaire are designed to assess each character on five major factors of personality: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Openness to Experience. After you have filled out a questionnaire on a character, the program will provide a graph that displays the results of your coding on those five factors.
We have not set an ending date for the study. We are opening the website in January of 2005, and we anticipate that it will be open for at least a year. Once we have completed the study, we shall share our findings with anyone who asks for them. In the meantime, on the questionnaire itself we shall provide a link to a page on which we shall post the average results on all questions for all the characters in the study, and we shall periodically update these averages.
This study is a type of "census" of vital statistics about the population of "Victorian" literary characters-the first of its kind. The "census-taker" is you, the individual coder sitting at his or her computer. Anyone who is over 18 and who has read a Victorian novel is qualified to participate.
We want to gather information that will allow us systematically to answer questions like the following: What features of characterization do males, females, antagonists, protagonists, and other character types tend to share? What exactly makes them different? Do these features change much as we cross historical boundaries? How do these features vary by sex of author? How about by sex or age of the interpreter? What can consistent differences between protagonists and antagonists tell us about the moral universe that gave birth to the novels? Do people generally agree about interpretation of character? Or are there large individual differences? Can we do a better job of answering certain literary questio ns by systematically gathering data about reader response? And, conversely, can literary works be mined as rich sources of data for formal psychological studies?
These are just some of the important questions we hope to address in our study. But we can't do it without your help. Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Sincerely,
Jonathan Gottschall
St. Lawrence University
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Forum Protocol
Date: May 28, 2005 4:11:11 PM PDT
Dear All,
From time to time I find it necessary to remind some members to please do
their fellow subscribers the courtesy of signing their names to their
postings. If you are new to the Forum, or not a regular poster, it would
be even more appropriate to sign both your first and last names. This is a
very friendly list. We want to get to know you, how you first came to be
interested in Hardy, and I believe that knowing who you are will make
others feel more warmly about giving meaningful responses to your questions.
Your cooperation in this matter will be much appreciated.
Betty Cortus
hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
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