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1)Essays in Postmodern Culture
2)Black Ice Books
3)Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology
4)Centennial Review
5)Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science
6)College Literature
7)Contention
8)Differences
9)Discourse
10)Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture
11)Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology
12)GENDERS
13)Hot Off the Tree
14)Information Technology and Disabilities
15)Inter-Society for Electronic Arts
16)M/E/A/N/I/N/G
17)Minnesota Review
18)Modern Fiction Studies
19)MTV Killed Kurt Cobain
20)Nomad
21)October
22)RHETNET: A Cyberjournal for Rhetoric and Writing
23)RIF/T
24)SSCORE
25)Studies in Popular Culture
26)TDR
27)Tonguing the Zeitgeist
28)Virus 23
29)ViViD Magazine
30)Zines-L
32)Representations
33)Human Computer Interaction Laboratory (University of Maryland, College Park), 11th annual symposium and open house
34)Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist
35)Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
36)The Little Magazine: Work, Writing, Electronic Space, Cyborg Performance and Poetics
37)National Symposium on Proposed Arts and Humanities Policies for the National Information Infrastructure
38)Postmodern Culture: A SUNY Series
39) PSYCHE
40)Research on Virtual Relationships
41)Sixties Generations: From Montgomery to Vietnam; an interdisciplinary meeting of Scholars, Artists, and Activists
42)Splinter
43)STYLE: Possible Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Postmodern Fiction
44)Undercurrent

 

Networked Discussion Groups:

 

45)FEMISA: Feminism, Gender, International Relations_
46)HOLOCAUS: Holocaust List
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Research Programs:

 

50)Deadlines for NEH Programs, Seminars, and Fellowships

 

Resources:

 

51)Gopheur Litteratures
52)American Lit. Sublist
53) English Lit. Sublist

 

Other:

 

54)Spelunk with International Artist
55) Mark Taylor and Esa Saarinen, Imagologies

 



     ESSAYS IN POSTMODERN CULTURE:

 

 . . . Now Cordless

 

An anthology of essays from Postmodern Culture is available in print from Oxford University Press. The works collected here constitute practical engagements with the postmodern–from AIDS and the body to postmodern politics. Writing by George Yudice, Allison Fraiberg, David Porush, Stuart Moulthrop, Paul McCarthy, Roberto Dainotto, Audrey Ecstavasia, Elizabeth Wheeler, Bob Perelman, Steven Helmling, Neil Larsen, David Mikics, Barrett Watten. Book design by Richard Eckersley.

 

ISBN: 0-19-508752-6 (hardbound)
0-19-508753-4 (paper)

 

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     BLACK ICE BOOKS

 

Black Ice Books is a new alternative trade paperback series that will introduce readers to the latest wave of dissident American writers. Breaking out of the bonds of mainstream writing, the voices published here are subversive, challenging and provocative. The first four books include:

 

Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation
Edited by Larry McCaffery, this book is an assemblage of innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics and various other unclassifiable texts by writers like Samuel Delany, Mark Leyner, William Vollmann, Kathy Acker, Eurdice, Stephen Wright, Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe, Tim Ferret, Ricardo Cortez Cruz and many others.

 

 

“One of the least cautious, nerviest editors going, Larry McCaffery is the No-Care Bear of American Letters.”

— William Gibson.

 

“A clusterbomb of crazy fiction, from a generation too sane to repeat yesterday’s lies.”

— Tom Robbins

 

New Noir
Stories by John Shirley

 

John Shirley bases his stories on his personal experience of extreme people and extreme mental states, and on his struggle with the seduction of drugs, crime, prostitution and violence.

 

“John Shirley is an adventurer, returning from dark and troubled regions with visionary tales to tell.”

— Clive Barker

 

The Kafka Chronicles
a novel by Mark Amerika

 

The Kafka Chronicles is an adventure into the psyche of an ultracontemporary twentysomething guerilla artist who is lost in an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism, where he encounters an unusual cast of angry yet sensual characters

 

“Mr Amerika–if indeed that is his name–has achieved a unique beauty in his artful marriage of Blake’s lyricism and the iron- in-the-soul of Celine. Are we taking a new and hard-hitting Antonin Artaud? Absolutely. And much more.”

 

–Terry Southern

 

Revelation Countdown
by Cris Mazza

 

Stories that project onto the open road not the nirvana of personal freedom but rather a type of freedom more resembling loss of control.

 

“Talent jumps off her like an overcharge of electricity.”

–LA Times

 

Discount Mail-Order Information:
You can buy these books directly from the publisher at a discount. Buy one for $7, two for $13, three for $19 or all four for $25. We pay US postage! (Foreign orders add $2.50 per book.)

 

___ Avant-Pop

___ New Noir

___ The Kafka Chronicles

___ Revelation Countdown

 

Please make all checks or money orders payable to:

 

Fiction Collective Two
Publications Unit
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61761

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     Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology

 

Presenting the proceedings of an important conference held in Blantyre, Malawi in November of 1992, this volume represents a significant step for the African Christian church toward incorporating indigenous African arts and culture into it liturgy. Recognizing that the African Christian church continues to define itself in distinctly Western terms, forty-nine participants from various denominations and all parts of Africa– Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon–and the United States met to share ideas and experiences and to establish strategies for the indigenization of Christianity in African churches.

 

Other special issues by single copy:

 

The William Grant Still Reader
presents the collected writings of this respected American composer. Still offered a perspective on American music and society informed by a diversity of experience and associations that few others have enjoyed. His distinguished career spanned jazz, traditional African-American idioms, and the European avant-garde, and his compositions ranged from chamber music to opera.

 

Sacred Music of the Secular City
delves into the American religious imagination by examining the religious roots and historical circumstances of popular music. Includes essays on musicians Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, Madonna, and 2 Live Crew.

 

Subscription prices: $30 institutions, $15 individuals. Single issues: $15. Please add $4 for subscription outside the U.S. Canadian residents, add 7% GST.

 

Duke University Press/Box 90660/Durham NC 27708

 

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     The Centennial Review

 

Edited by R.K. Meiners

 

The Centennial Review is committed to reflection on intellectual work, particularly as set in the University and its environment. We are interested in work that examines models of theory and communication in the physical, biological, and human sciences; that re-reads major texts and authoritative documents in different disciplines or explores interpretive procedures; that questions the cultural and social implications of research in a variety of disciplines.

 

$12/year (3 issues), $18/two years (6 issues)

 

(Add $4.50 per year for mailing outside the US)

 

Recent special issue:

 

Poland: From Real Socialism to Democracy

 

Please make your check payable to The Centennial Review. Mail to: The Centennial Review
312 Linton Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1044

 

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     Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science

 

Editors: Stuart Kurtz, Michael O’Donnell, and Janos Simon, University of Chicago

 

“I want to commend both The MIT Press and the MIT Libraries for their vision in publishing the Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science… the North Carolina State University Libraries will be subscribing to this ground-breaking electronic journal. I can assure you that we will do all that we can to make our faculty and students aware of this exciting new publication”

 

–Susan K. Nutter, Director of
Libraries, North Carolina State University

 

Please Join in Our Vision of a New Relationship between Publishers and Libraries

 

We have a vision that university presses and university libraries, working together, can publish and maintain electronic scholarly journals which provide:

 

  •      Peer-reviewed and high-quality papers
  •      Continuity and name-recognition
  •      Quicker and wider dissemination of information
  •      Enhanced search and retrieval mechanisms
  •      Lower costs than print journals
  •      Guaranteed future access to the contents

 

The journal will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in theoretical computer science and is designed to meet the following needs:

 

  •      The scholar’s desire for quicker peer review and dissemination of research results; 
  •      The library’s need to develop systems and structures to deal with electronic journals and know to what degree electronic journals might relieve budget pressures; 
  •      The publisher’s need to develop an economic and a user model for electronic dissemination of scholarly journals.

 

Ground-Breaking:

 

  •      Published by an established journals publisher, the MIT Press, working with the MIT Libraries to guarantee library concerns are addressed; 
  •      Committed to publishing a level of quality equivalent to standard print journals with the goal of increasing acceptance of electronic publication in the tenure review process; 
  •      Committed to fast turnaround in the peer review process in order to attract high-quality manuscripts and communicate research results more quickly to the scholarly community; 
  •      Sold on a subscription basis for fees comparable to standard print journals to both libraries and individuals in an effort to develop an economic model that will encourage publishers to develop electronic journals (initial subscription prices of $125/year for institutions and $30/year for individuals); 
  •      Published on the basis of trust in libraries and scholars to pay for what they use and to follow established copyright and fair use guidelines; 
  •      Archived at MIT Libraries and University of Chicago with commitment to keep text compatible with latest standards, and assurance of authoritative version of text.

 

What a Subscriber Gets:

 

  •      Article-by-article publication, beginning with approximately 15 articles in 1994 (equivalent to a triannual standard paper journal) and including possible paper delivery if demanded by customers; 
  •      Notification by e-mail of article title, author, and abstract when articles are ready, and the ability to retrieve them from the Press’s WAIS server via FTP or gopher, in either LaTex source file or Postscript form; 
  •      Articles published with an associated file of forward pointers for referral to subsequent papers, results, and improvements that are relevant to the published article; 
  •      Advertisements and notices available upon request from file server at MIT; 
  •      Access to continually updated archive located at MIT.

 

As a Library Subscriber you have permission to:

 

  •      Store the Journal on any file server under your control, and make it available online to the local community to print or download copies; 
  •      Print out individual articles and other items for inclusion in your periodical collection; 
  •      Place the Journal on the campus network for access by local users or post article listings and notices on the network to inform your users of what is available; 
  •      Print out individual articles and other items from the Journal for the personal scholarly use of readers; 
  •      Print out articles and other items for storage on reserve if requested by professor, student, or university staff; 
  •      Share print or electronic copy of the Journal with other libraries under standard inter-library loan procedures; 
  •      Convert material from the Journal to another medium (i.e. microfilm/fiche/CD) for storage.

For subscription information please contact:

 

journals-orders@mit.edu
 
 

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  •      College Literature
    A Triannual Literary Journal for the Classroom

 

Edited by Kostas Myrsiades

 

A triannual journal of scholarly criticism dedicated to serving the needs of College/University teachers by providing them with access to innovative ways of studying and teaching new bodies of literature and experiencing old literature in new ways.

 

“Congratulations on some extremely important work; you certainly seem attuned to what is both valuable and relevant.”

 

–Terry Eagleton
–Oxford University

 

“In one bold stroke you seem to have turned _College Literature_ into one of the things everyone will want to read.”

 

–Cary Nelson

 

“A journal one must consult to keep tabs on cultural theory and contemporary discourse, particularly in relation to pedagogy.”

 

–Robert Con Davis

 

Forthcoming issues:

 

Third World Women’s Literature
African American Writing
Cross-Cultural Poetics

 

Subscription Rates:      US                  Foreign
         Individual      $24.00/year         $29.00/year
         Institutional:  $48.00/year         $53.00/year

Send prepaid orders to:College Literature
Main 544
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
(215)436-2901 / (fax) (215)436-3150

 

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  •      CONTENTION: Debates in Society, Culture, and Science

 

Contention is:

 

“…simply a triumph from cover to cover.”
Fredrick Crews

 

“…the most exciting new journal that I have ever read.”
Lynn Hunt

 

“…an important, exciting, and very timely project.”
Theda Skocpol

 

“…an idea whose time has come.”
Robert Brenner

 

“…serious and accessible.”
Louise Tilly

 

Subscriptions (3 issues) are available to individuals at $25.00 and to institutions at $50.00 (plus $10.00 for foreign surface postage) from:

 

Journals Division
Indiana University Press
601 N. Morton
Bloomington IN 47104
ph: (812) 855-9449
fax: (812) 855-7931

 

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  •      Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

 

QUEER THEORY: LESBIAN AND GAY SEXUALITIES
(Volume 3, Number 2)
Edited by Teresa de Lauretis

 

Teresa de Lauretis: Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities An Introduction

Sue Ellen Case: Tracking the Vampire

Samuel R. Delany: Street Talk/Straight Talk

Elizabeth A. Grosz: Lesbian Fetishism?

Jeniffer Terry: Theorizing Deviant Historiography

Thomas Almaguer: Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior

Ekua Omosupe: Black/Lesbian/Bulldagger

Earl Jackson, Jr.: Scandalous Subjects: Robert Gluck’s Embodied Narratives

Julia Creet: Daughter of the Movement: The Psychodynamics of Lesbian S/M Fantasy

 

THE PHALLUS ISSUE
(Volume 4, Number 1)
Edited by Naomi Schor and Elizabeth Weed

 

Maria Torok: The Meaning of “Penis Envy” in Women (1963)

Jean-Joseph Goux: The Phallus: Masculine Identity and the “Exchange of Women”

Parveen Adams: Waiving the Phallus

Kaja Silverman: The Lacanian Phallus

Charles Bernheimer: Penile Reference in Phallic Theory

Judith Butler: The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary

Jonathan Goldberg: Recalling Totalities: The Mirrored Stages of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Emily Apter: Female Trouble in the Colonial Harem

 

Single Issues: $12.95 individuals
               $25.00 institutions
               ($1.75 each postage)

 

Subscriptions (3 issues): $28.00 individuals
                          $48.00 institutions
                          ($10.00 foreign surface postage)

 

Send orders to:

 

Journals Division
Indiana University Press
601 N Morton
Bloomington IN 47404
ph: (812) 855-9449
fax: (812) 855-7931

 

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  •      DISCOURSE
    Volume 15, Number 1

 

SPECIAL ISSUE

 

FLAUNTING IT: LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES

 

Kathryn Baker:
Delinquent Desire: Race, Sex, and Ritual in Reform Schools for Girls

 

Terralee Bensinger:
Lesbian Pornography: The Re-Making of (a) Community

 

Scott Bravmann:
Investigating Queer Fictions of the Past: Identities, Differences, and Lesbian and Gay Historical Self-Representations

 

Sarah Chinn and Kris Franklin:
“I am What I Am” (Or Am I?): Making and Unmaking of Lesbian and Gay Identity in High Tech Boys

 

Greg Mullins:
Nudes, Prudes, and Pigmies: The Desirability of Disavowal in Physical Culture Magazine

 

JoAnn Pavletich:
Muscling the Mainstream: Lesbian Murder Mysteries and Fantasies of Justice

 

David Pendelton:
Obscene Allegories: Narrative Structures in Gay Male Porn

 

Thomas Piontek:
Applied Metaphors: AIDS and Literature

 

June L. Reich:
The Traffic in Dildoes: The Phallus as Camp and the Revenge of the Genderfuck

 

 

Single Issues: $12.95 individuals
               $25.00 institutions
               ($1.75 each postage)

 

Subscriptions (3 issues): $25.00 individuals
                          $50.00 institutions
                          ($10.00 foreign surface postage)

Send orders to:

 

Journals Division
Indiana University Press
601 N Morton
Bloomington IN 47404
ph: (812) 855-9449
fax: (812) 855-7931

 

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  •      The Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture

 

We are very pleased by the great interest in the Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture. There are already more than 1,850 people subscribed.

 

Our first issue was distributed in March 1993. The future looks very interesting. Editors are working on Special Issues on education, law, qualitative research, and dynamics in virtual culture.

 

The Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture (EJVC) is a refereed scholarly journal that fosters, encourages, advances and communicates scholarly thought on virtual culture. Virtual culture is computer-mediated experience, behavior, action, interaction and thought, including electronic conferences, electronic journals, networked information systems, the construction and visualization of models of reality, and global connectivity.

 

EJVC is published monthly. Some parts may be distributed at different times during the month or published only occasionally (e.g. CyberSpace Monitor). If you would be interested in writing a column on some general topic area in the Virtual Culture (e.g. an advice column for questions about etiquette, technology, etc. ?) or have an article to submit or would be interested in editing a special issue contact Ermel Stepp Editor-in-Chief of Diane Kovacs Co-Editor at the e-mail addresses listed below. You can retrieve the file EJVC AUTHORS via anonymous ftp to

 

byrd.mu.wvnet.edu

(pub/ejvc) or via e-mail to

listserv@kentvm
 
 

or

 

listserv@kentvm.kent.edu
 

 

Cordially,

 

Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Editor-in-Chief

 

MO34050@Marshall.wvnet.edu
 
 

Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor

 

DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu
 
 

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  •      Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology

 

“Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology” by Chuck Welch is to be published in Fall 1994 by University of Calgary Press. The 42 chapter, 350 page text includes an index, 147 illustrations and six major appendices including the largest extensive listing of underground mail art zines in existence. A thorough listing of nearly 100 international private and institutional mail art archives appears in another important appendice.

 

But what is mail art? Mail art is a paradox in the way it reverses traditional definitions of art; the mailbox and computer replace the museum, the address becomes the art, and the mailman brings home the avant-garde to mail artists in the form of correspondence art, e-mail art, artistamps, postcards, conceptual projects, and collaborations. “Eternal Network introduces readers to a lively exchange with international mail art networkers from five continents. The book include snail mail and e-mail addresses, fax, and telephone numbers for many active mail artists. Readers are invited to participate — to corresponDANCE with global village artists who quickstep beyond establishment boundaries of art.

 

Among the forty-two distinguished contributors appearing in “Eternal Network” are New York City art critic Richard Kostelanetz; physicist, poet Bern Porter; Director of the Museum of Modern Art Library, Clive Phillpot; famed Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Ken Friedman; University of Iowa art historian and archival director Estera Milman, and mail art patron Jean Brown who has collected the world’s largest assemblage of mail art material now undergoing documentation at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.

 

Many of the forty-two chapters appearing in “Eternal Network” are original, unpublished essays pertaining to the origin and history of mail art networking, collaborative aesthetics, new directions for mail art networking in the 1990’s, mail art projects exploring the interconnection of marginal on and off-line networks, mail art criticism and dialogue, and finally, parables, visions, dances, dreams, and poems that articulate the living mythology of mail art.

 

Edited by Chuck Welch, an active mail artist since 1978, “Eternal Network” makes an important first step towards introducing mail art to non-artists, artists, and academic scholars. For more information send e-mail to

 

Cathryn.L.Welch@dartmouth.edu
 

or write to

 

“Eternal Network” PO Box 978, Hanover, NH 03755
 

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  •      GENDERS
    Ann Kibbey, Editor University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Since 1988, GENDERS has presented innovative theories of gender and sexuality in art, literature, history, music, photography, TV, and film. Today, GENDERS continues to publish both new and known authors whose work reflects an international movement to redefine the boundaries of traditional doctrines and disciplines.

 

GENDERS is published triannually in Spring, Fall, Winter

 

       Single Copy rates: Individual $9, Institution $14
                  Foreign postage, add $2/copy
       Subscription rates: Individual $24, Institution $40
             Foreign postage, add $5.50/subscription

Send orders to:

 

University of Texas Box 7819 Austin TX 78713
 

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  •      Hot Off the Tree

 

HOTT — Hot Off The Tree — is a FREE monthly electronic newsletter featuring the latest advances in computer, communications, and electronics technologies. Each issue provides article summaries on new & emerging technologies, including VR (virtual reality), neural networks, PDAs (personal digital assistants), GUIs (graphical user interfaces), intelligent agents, ubiquitous computing, genetic & evolutionary programming, wireless networks, smart cards, video phones, set-top boxes, nanotechnology, and massively parallel processing.

 

Summaries are provided from the following sources:

 

Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, Financial Times (London) …

 

Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report …

 

Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist (London), Nikkei Weekly (Tokyo), Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) …

 

over 50 trade magazines, including Computerworld, InfoWorld, Datamation, Computer Retail Week, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, LAN Times, Communications Week, PC World, New Media, VAR Business, Midrange Systems, Byte …

 

over 50 research journals, including ALL publications of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, plus technical journals published by AT&T, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu, Sharp, NTT, Siemens, Philips, GEC …

 

over 100 Internet mailing lists & USENET discussion groups …

 

plus …

 

  •      listings of forthcoming & recently published technical books; 
  •      listings of forthcoming trade shows & technical conferences; 
  •      company advertorials, including CEO perspectives, tips & techniques, and new product announcements.

 

BONUS:

 

Exclusive interviews with technology pioneers … the next two issues feature interviews with Mark Weiser (head of Xerox PARC’s Computer Science Lab) on ubiquitous computing, and Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg on the information society

 

TO REQUEST A FREE SUBSCRIPTION, CAREFULLY FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

 

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The HOTT mailing list is automatically maintained by a computer located at the University of California at San Diego. The system automatically responds to the sender’s return path. Hence, it is necessary to send subscription requests and cancellations directly to the listserv at UCSD. (I cannot make modifications to the list … nor do I have access to the list.) For your privacy, please note that the list will not be rented. If you have problems and require human intervention, contact:

 

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The next issue of the reinvented HOTT e-newsletter is scheduled for transmission in late January/early February.

 

Please forward this announcement to friends and colleagues, and post to your favorite bulletin boards. Our objective is to disseminate the highest quality and largest circulation compunications (computer & communications) industry newsletter.

 

I look forward to serving you as HOTT’s new editor. Thank you.

 

David Scott Lewis
Editor-in-Chief and Book & Video Review Editor
IEEE Engineering Management Review
(the world’s largest circulation “high tech” management journal)

 

Internet address:d.s.lewis@ieee.org
Tel: +1 714 662 7037
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  •      Announcing a New Electronic Journal:INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES

 

Below is information about the journal, including the table of contents for Volume I, no. 1, as well as information on editorial staff and explicit instructions for subscribing or using the journal via gopher.

 

IT&D V1N1 Table of Contents 230 lines

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES

ISSN 1073-5127

Volume I, No. 1 January, 1994

 

ARTICLES

 

INTRODUCING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES

(itdV01N1 mcnulty)

Tom McNulty, Editor

 

BUILDING AN ACCESSIBLE CD-ROM REFERENCE STATION

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Rochelle Wyatt and Charles Hamilton

 

ABSTRACT: This case study describes the development of an accessible CD-ROM workstation at the Washington Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Included are descriptions of hardware and software, as well as selected CD-ROM reference sources. Information is provided on compatibility of individual CD-ROM products with adaptive technology hardware and software.

 

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACCESSIBLE USER INTERFACE FOR PEOPLE WHO
ARE BLIND OR VISION IMPAIRED AS PART OF THE RE-COMPUTERIZATION
OF ROYAL BLIND SOCIETY (AUSTRALIA)

(itdV01N1 noonan)

Tim Noonan

 

ABSTRACT: In 1991, Royal Blind Society (Australia) and Deen Systems, a Sydney-based software development company, undertook a major overhaul of RBS information systems intended to enhance access to RBS client services as well as employment opportunities for blind and vision impaired RBS staff. This case study outlines the steps taken and principles followed in the development of a computer user interface intended for efficient use by blind and vision impaired individuals.

 

THE ELECTRONIC REHABILITATION RESOURCE CENTER AT
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY (NEW YORK)

(itdV01N1 holtzman)

Bob Zenhausern and Mike Holtzman

 

ABSTRACT: St. John’s University in Jamaica, New York, is host to a number of disability-related network information sources and services. This article identifies and describes key sources and services, including Bitnet listservs, or discussion groups, the UNIBASE system which includes real-time online conferencing, and other valuable educational and rehabilitation-related network information sources.

 

THE CLEARINGHOUSE ON COMPUTER ACCOMMODATION (COCA)

(itdV01N1 brummel)

Susan Brummel and Doug Wakefield

 

ABSTRACT: Since 1985, COCA has been pioneering information policies and computer support practices that benefit Federal employees with disabilities and members of the public with disabilities. Today, COCA provides a variety of services to people within and outside Government employment. The ultimate goal of all COCA’s activities is to advance equitable information environments consistent with non-discriminatory employment and service delivery goals.

 

DEPARTMENTS

 

JOB ACCOMMODATIONS

 

(itdV01N1 jobs)

Editor: Joe Lazzaro

lazzaro@bix.com
 
 

K – 12 EDUCATION

 

(itdV01N1 k12)

Editor: Anne Pemberton

apembert@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu

 

LIBRARIES

 

(itdV01N1 library)

Editor: Ann Neville

neville@emx.cc.utexas.edu

 

ONLINE INFORMATION AND NETWORKING

 

(itdV01N1 online)

Editor: Steve Noble

slnobl01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu

 

CAMPUS COMPUTING

 

(itdV01N1 campus)

Editor: Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, Ph.D.

hilton-chalfen@mic.ucla.edu

 

Copyright (c 1994) by (IT&D) Information Technology and Disabilities. Authors of individual articles retain all copyrights to said articles, and their permission is needed to reproduce any individual article. The rights to the journal as a collection belong to (IT&D) Information Technology and Disabilities. IT&D encourages any and all electronic distribution of the journal and permission for such copying is expressly permitted here so long as it bears no charge beyond possible handling fees. To reproduce the journal in non-electronic format requires permission of its board of directors. To do this, contact the editor.

 

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

 

Tom McNulty, New York University

(mcnulty@acfcluster.nyu.edu)

 

EDITORS

 

Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout
Carmela Castorina, UCLA
Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA
Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology
Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin
Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind
Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA
Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John’s University

 

EDITORIAL BOARD

 

Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout
Carmela Castorina, UCLA
Danny Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA
Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology
Alistair D. N. Edwards, PhD, University of York, UK
Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin
Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind
Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA
Lawrence A. Scadden, PhD, National Science Foundation
Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John’s University

 

ABOUT EASI (EQUAL ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION)

 

Since its founding in 1988 under the EDUCOM umbrella, EASI has worked to increase access to information technology by persons with disabilities. Volunteers from EASI have been instrumental in the establishment of Information Technology and Disabilities as still another step in this process. Our mission has been to serve as a resource primarily to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access to information technologies. We seek to spread this information to schools, colleges, universities and into the workplace. EASI makes extensive use of the internet to disseminate this information, including two discussion lists:

 
EASI@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU

 

(a general discussion on computer access) and

 
AXSLIB-L@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU

 

(a discussion on library access issues). To join either list, send a “subscribe” command to

 
LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU

 

including the name of the discussion you want to join plus your own first and last name. EASI also maintains several items on the St. Johns gopher under the menu heading “Disability and Rehabilitation Resources”.

 

For further information, contact the EASI Chair:

 

Norman Coombs, Ph.D.

 

NRCGSH@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU

 

or the EASI office:
EASI’s phone: (310) 640-3193
EASI’s e-mail: EASI@EDUCOM.EDU

 

Individual ITD articles and departments are archived on the St. John’s University gopher. To access the journal via gopher, locate the St. John’s University (New York) gopher. Select “Disability and Rehabilitation Resources,” and from the next menu, select “EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information.” Information Technology and Disabilities is an item on the EASI menu.

 

To retrieve individual articles and departments by e-mail from the listserv: address an e-mail message to:

 

listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
 

leave subject line blank

 

the message text should include the word “get” followed by the two word file name; for example:

 

get itdV01N1 contents

 

Each article and department has a unique filename; that name is listed below the article or department in parentheses. Do NOT include the parentheses with the filename when sending the “get” command to listserv.

 

NOTE: ONLY ONE ITEM MAY BE RETRIEVED PER MESSAGE; DO NOT SEND MULTIPLE GET COMMANDS IN A SINGLE E-MAIL MESSAGE TO LISTSERV.

 

To receive the journal regularly, send e-mail to:

listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
 

with no subject and either of the following lines of text:
subscribe itd-toc “Firstname Lastname”
subscribe idt-jnl “Firstname Lastname”

 

(ITD-JNL is the entire journal in one e-mail message while ITD-TOC sends the contents with information on how to obtain specific articles.)

 

To get a copy of the guidelines for authors, send e-mail to:

listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
 

with no subject and the following single line of text:
get author guidelin

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  •      Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts

 

ISEA is the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. ISEA coordinates the continued occurence of the International Symposia on Electronic Art (the ISEA Symposia).

 

1988: Utrecht, Holland

1990: Groningen, Holland

1992: Sydney, Australia

1993: Minneapolis, USA

1994: Helsinki, Finland

1995: Montreal, Canada

 

ISEA publishes a monthly Newsletter, both electronically and as a hard copy. Associate membership is free of charge for one year.

 

Anyone interrested in membership info, aims and a sample Newsletter, contact

 

ISEA@SARA.NL

 

Greetings,
Wim van der Plas
ISEA Board

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  •      M/E/A/N/I/N/GA Journal of Contemporary Art Issues

 

M/E/A/N/I/N/G, an artist-run journal of contemporary art, is a fresh, lively, contentious, and provocative forum for new ideas in the arts.

 

M/E/A/N/I/N/G is published twice a year in the fall and spring.
It is edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor.

 

Subscriptions for

 

2 ISSUES (1 YEAR):
$12 for individuals:
$20 for institutions

 

4 ISSUES (2 YEARS):
$24 for individuals;
$40 for institutions

 

  •      Foreign subscribers please add $10 per year for shipping abroad and to Canada: $5
  •      Foreign subscribers please pay by international money order in U.S. dollars.

 

All checks should be made payable to Mira Schor

 

Send all subscriptions to:

 

Mira Schor
60 Lispenard Street
New York, NY 10013

 

Limited supply of back issues available at $6 each, contact Mira Schor for information.

 

Distributed with the Segue Foundation and the Solo Foundation

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  •      Minnesota Review

 

Tell your friends! Tell your librarians! The new Minnesota Review‘s coming to town!

 

Subscriptions are $10 a year (two issues), $20 institutions/overseas. The new Minnesota Review is published biannually and originates from East Carolina University beginning with the Fall 1992 special issue.

 

Send all queries, comments, suggestions, submissions, and subscriptions to:

 

Jeffrey Williams, Editor
Minnesota Review
Department of English
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

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  •      Modern Fiction Studies

 

MFS, a journal of modern and postmodern literature and culture, announces the following forthcoming special issues:

 

February, 39.1: “Fiction of the Indian Subcontinent”

May, 39.3: “Toni Morrison”

November, 40.1: “The Cultural Politics of Displacement” Barbara Harlow, guest editor

 

We also continue to accept submissions for forthcoming special issues on “Autobiography, Photography, Narrative,” Timothy Dow Adams, Guest Editor (deadline: April 1, 1994); “Postmodern Narratives (deadline: October 1 1994); “Sexuality and Narrative,” Guest Editor, Judith Roof (deadline: March 1, 1995).

 

MFS is published quarterly at Purdue University and invites submissions of articles offering theoretical, historical, interdisciplinary, and cultural approaches to modern and contemporary narrative. Authors should submit essays for both special and general issues in triplicate paper copy or duplicate paper copy and IBM-compatible floppy; please include a self- addressed, stamped envelope for the return of submissions. Send submissions to:

 

Patric O’Donnell
Editor
MFS
Department of English
Heavilon Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN 47907-1389
 

Address inquiries to the editor at this address or by e-mail at

 

pod@purccvm (bitnet);
pod@vm.cc.purdue.edu (Internet)
 

Subscriptions to MFS are $20 for individuals and $35 for libraries. Back issues are $7 each. Address subscription inquiries to:

 

Nel Fink
Circulation Manager
MFS
Department of Englis
h Heavilon Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN 47907-1389

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  •      MTV Killed Kurt Cobain

 

Announcing the publication of a mini-multimedia ‘zine, MTV Killed Kurt Cobain, with text, graphic, and sound resource. MTV Killed KC was written and directed by Mark Amerika and produced by Bobby Rabyd for Alternative-X, an electronic publishing enterprise at marketplace.com as Alternative-X

 

MTV Killed Kurt Cobain can be ftp’d from:

 

ftp.brown.edu

in the directory:

/pub/bobby_rabyd

 

It is in Storyspace Reader format, a standalone hypermedia template for the Macintosh.

 

Send queries to

st001747@brownvm.brown.edu

Bobby Rabyd

 

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  •      NOMAD
    An Interdisciplinary Journal of The Humanities, Arts, And Sciences

 

Manuscript submissions wanted in all interdisciplinary fields!

 

NOMAD is a forum for those texts that explore or examine the undefined regions among critical theory, visual arts, and writing. It is a bi-annual, not-for-profit, independent publication for provocative cross-disciplinary work of all cultural types, such as intermedia artwork, metatheory, and experimental writing, as well as literary, theoretical, political, and popular writing. While our editorial staff is comprised of artists and academics in a variety of disciplines, NOMAD strives to operate in a space outside of mainstream academic discourse and without institutional funding or controls.

 

Manuscripts should not exceed fifteen pages (exclusive of references); any form is acceptable. If possible, please submit manuscripts on 3.5″ Macintosh disks, in either Microsoft Word or MacWrite II format, or by E-mail. Each manuscript submitted on disk must be accompanied by a paper copy. Otherwise, please send two copies of each manuscript. Artwork submitted must be no larger than 8 1/2″ x 11″, and in black and white. PICT, TIFF, GIF, and JPEG files on 3.5″ Macintosh disks are acceptable, if accompanied by a paper copy (or via E-mail, bin-hexed or uuencoded). All artwork must be camera-ready. Submissions by regular mail should include a SASE with sufficient postage attached if return is desired. Diskettes should be shipped in standard diskette mailing packages.

 

Subscriptions: $9 per year (2 issues)
Send Manuscripts and Inquiries to:

 

NOMAD, c/o
Mike Smith
406 Williams Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, 32306
msmith@garnet.acns.fsu.edu

 

“In NOMAD, the rarest combinations of interests are treated with respect and exposed to the eyes of those who can most appreciate them.”

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  •      OctoberArt | Theory | Criticism | Politics

 

The MIT Press

 

Edited by:  Rosalind Kraus
            Annette Michelson
            Yve-Alain Bois
            Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
            Hal Foster
            Denis Hollier
            John Rajchman

 

“OCTOBER, the 15-year-old quarterly of social and cultural theory, has always seemed special. Its nonprofit status, its cross- disciplinary forays into film and psychoanalytic thinking, and its unyielding commitment to history set it apart from the glossy art magazines.”

--Village Voice

 

As the leading edge of arts criticism and theory today, OCTOBERfocuses on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue examines interrelationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts.

 

Come join OCTOBER‘s exploration of the most important issues in contemporary culture. Subscribe Today!

 

Published Quarterly ISSN 0162-2870. Yearly Rates: Individual $32.00; Institution $80.00; Student (copy of current ID required) and Retired: $22.00. Outside USA add $14.00 postage and handling. Canadians add additional 7% GST. Prepayment is required. Send check payable to OCTOBER drawn against a US bank, MasterCard or VISA number to:

 

MIT Press Journal / 55 Hayward Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 / TEL: (617) 233-2889 / FAX: (617) 258-6779 / journals-orders@mit.edu

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  •      R H E T N E T: A CyberJournal for Rhetoric and Writing

 

RHETNET Philosophy:

 

There are numerous places to talk on the Internet, and scholars in all fields are there (and there and there and there) pouring forth rivers of words. Amid the inevitable and voluptuous mundanity of those conversations reside moments of discovery, the fiery and spontaneous generation of knowledge, and even wisdom. These conversations, or parts of them, are worth saving and savoring. If we look at all of literature, including scholarly publication, as being one long, vast, intricate and diverse conversation, then the discussion online can be seen as part of the same discourse. The conversation is migrating to a new media, but the means of (attempting to) provide coherence are still developing.

 

RHETNET is an effort to adapt the functions of academic print journals to the new environment. Journals simultaneously serve as the medium of conversation and the repository for knowledge. RHETNET serves those purposes, but takes the shape of its native environment: cyberspace.

 

The project is both radical and conservative. RHETNET provides rhetoric and Internet students and scholars with the means of capturing, contextualizing, searching, and retrieving some of the intriguing and valuable conversations that occur on various parts of the Net, but which currently lie scattered and forgotten in dusty corners of the virtual world. It provides a repository of netscholarship on rhetoric and writing. We envision it as a decentered, organic repository for all the stuff of the Net that is of interest to the rhetoric and writing community, while also including space for various traditional types of scholarly discourse.

 

RHETNET Purpose:

 

1.      To act as an archive for Net conversations
        relating to rhetoric and writing.  Few existing
        places of discourse (mailing lists, newsgroups,
        chat systems, MU*s), make an effort to capture
        those conversations in a form that would allow
        them to be reviewed reflectively and commented
        upon in the future.  They lack the archival intent
        that RHETNET provides.

2.      To offer a place for original publication of
        articles and essays.  We're interested in
        retaining some aspects of traditional scholarly
        publishing, or at least exploring the
        possibilities for the co-existence of network and
        print-oriented forms and sensibilities.

3.      To create appropriate help sheets, conference
        tutorials, or workshops on accessing the journal
        and advice that will help new members of the Net.

4.      To promote netscholarship and community.

RHETNET Editorial Intent

 

The editorial management group is responsible for coordinating regular publication of refereed articles on rhetoric and writing, particularly as they are constituted in the network environments of a developing cyberspace. As the journal evolves, this traditional structure may meld with the forms of scholarship more native to the Net, the forms that other aspects of the journal discover through exploratory approaches to network publication.

 

Anyone who is interested in being actively involved in the editorial or technological aspects of the journal is invited to join the editorial management group. Like the various scholarly communities on the Net, the main qualification for joining this effort is interest in writing, rhetoric, poetics, composition and critical theory, pedagogy, and online publication. Institutional credentials are not relevant.

 

A Listserv list, RHETNT-L@mizzou1.bitnet, has been created to serve this effort, initially as a place to conduct asynchronous discussions about the project. The list is managed by Eric Crump.

 

To subscribe, send email to

 
LISTSERV@mizzou1.bitnet
 

or

 

LISTSERV@mizzou1.missouri.edu
 

Leave the subject line blank and in the first line of the note, put:
sub RHETNT-L Your Name

 

Anyone who has trouble subscribing should write to Eric at

 
LCERIC@mizzou1.bitnet

or

LCERIC@mizzou1.missouri.edu

 

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  •      RIF/T

 

RIF/T, the electronic poetics journal, is interested in receiving proposals and/or submissions for a forthcoming special issue on Charles Olson.

 

Inquiries may be sent to:

 

E-POETRY@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
 

RIF/T is edited by Kenneth Sherwood and Loss Pequen~o Glazier

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  •      SSCORESocial Science Computer Review

 

G. David Garson, Editor
Ronald Anderson, Co-editor

 

The official journal of the Social Science Computing Association, SSCORE provides a unique forum for social scientists to acquire and share information on the research and teaching applications of microcomputing. Now, when you subscribe to Social Science Computer Review, you automatically become a member of the Social Science Computing Association.

 

Quarterly Subscription prices: $48 individual, $80 institutions Single Issue: $20 Please add $8 for postage outside the U.S. Canadian residents add 7% GST

 

Duke University Press/ Journals Division / Box 90660 /Durham NC 27708

 

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  •      Studies in Popular Culture
    Dennis Hall, editor.

 

Studies in Popular Culture, the journal of the Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South, publishes articles on popular culture and American culture however mediated: through film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations, events–any of the material or conceptual conditions of life. The journal enjoys a wide range of contributors from the United States, Canada, France, Israel, and Australia, which include distinguished anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers, ethnomusicologists, historians, and scholars in mass communications, philosophy, literature, and religion.

 

Please direct editorial queries to the editor:

 

Dennis Hall
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville KY 40292
tel: (502) 588-6896/0509
Fax: (502) 588-5055
Bitnet: DRHALL01@ULKYVM
Internet: drhall01@ulkvm.louisville.edu
 

All manuscripts should be sent to the editor care of the

 

English Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
 

Please enclose two, double-spaced copies and a self-addressed stamped envelope. Black and White illustrations may accompany the text. Our preference is for essays that total, with notes and bibliography, no more than twenty pages. Documentation may take the form appropriate for the discipline of the writer; the current MLA stylesheet is a useful model. Please indicate if the work is available on computer disk. The editor reserves the right to make stylistic changes on accepted manuscripts.

 

Studies in Popular Culture is published semiannually and is indexed in the PMLA Annual Bibliography. All members of the Association receive Studies in Popular Culture. Yearly membership is $15.00 (International: $20.00). Write to:

 

the Executive Secretary
Diane Calhoun-French
Academic Dean
Jefferson Community College-SW
Louisville, KY 40272
 

for membership, individual issues, back copies, or sets. Volumes I- XV are available for $225.00.

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  •      The Journal of Performance Studies

 

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The Journal of Performance StudiesT141 (Spring 1994)

 

TDR is a journal that explores the diverse world of performance. How does this relate to you? The journal emphasizes the intercultural, and the inter-disciplinary and spans numerous geographical areas and historical periods. TDR addresses performance issues of every kind: theatre, music, dance, entertainment, media, sports, politics, aesthetics of everyday life, games, play, and ritual. TDR is for people in the performing arts, the social sciences, academics, activists and theorists–anyone interested thinking about the “performance” paradigm. The journal, is edited by Richard Schechner of the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, and is published quarterly by MIT Press.

 

Although TDR is not yet an electronic journal, you can browse through sample articles online and subscribe via e-mail from the Electronic Newsstand or directly from MIT, the publisher (see directions below).

 

Check out our table of contents:

 

In This Issue (T141 Spring 1994)

 

Comments
TDR & NEA: The Continuing Saga – TDR Comment by Richard

 

Schechner (editor)
In Memory of Utpal Dutt – by Sudipto Chatterjee
In Memory of Robert W. Corrigan – by Richard Schechner

 

Letters
Free Giveaway of His Plays – by Richard Foreman
Marxism, Melodrama, and Theatre Historiography – Dan Gerould responds
Eelka Lampe Responds to Masakuni Kitazawa
Native Earth and Jennifer Preston – a letter from Alan Filewood
Retiring or Recharging? – a letter from Richard E. Kramer

 

Articles
Muhammed and the Virgin: Folk Dramatization of Battles Between Moors and Christians – by Max Harris

 

“A Radiant Smile from the Lovely Lady”: Overdetermined Femininity in “Ladies” Figure Skating – by Abigail M. Feder

 

Tomas Schmit: A Fluxus Farewell to Perfection – interview by Gunther Berghaus

 

Going Going Gone: Theatre and American Culture(s) – by Bradley Boney

 

Whatever Happened to the Sleepy Mexican?: One Way to be a Contemporary Mexican in a Changing World Order – by Yareli Arizmendi

 

The New World Border: Prophecies for the End of the Century – by Guillermo Gomez-Pena

 

The Other History of Intercultural Performance – by Coco Fusco

 

Book Reviews
Women and Comedy: Rewriting the British Theatrical Tradition (by Susan Carlson) – reviewed by Lizbeth Goodman

 

Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts (edited by Laurence Senelick) – reviewed by Kim Marra

 

The National Stage: Theatre and Culture Legitimation in England, France and American (by Loren Kruger) – reviewed by Susan Manning

 

Actors and Onlookers: Theater and Twentieth-Century Scientific Views of Nature (by Natalie Crohn Schmitt), The Actor’s Instrument: Body, Theory, State (by Hollis Huston), The End of Acting a Radical View (by Richard Hornby), Acting (by John Harrop) – all reviewed by Phillip B. Zarrilli

 

Each TDR issue is filled with photographs, artwork, and scripts that illustrate every article. The journal, founded in 1955, is 7 x 10, and a 184 pages per issue.

 

Come browse and subscribe

 

1. MIT Press Online
To access MIT Press Online Catalogs and subscription information:
telnet techinfo.mit.edu /Around MIT/MIT Press/journals/arts/

 

You can also access MIT via Gopher in USA/massachusetts/MIT/

 

To subscribe to TDR through MIT Press, send e-mail to:
journals-orders@mit.eduMIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA
02142-1399 USA.
Tel: (617) 253-2889 Fax: (617)258-6779

 

2. The Electronic Newsstand
You can browse through an article from our latest issue and
obtain subscription information on the Electronic
Newsstand.On Gopher, go to: massachusetts/MIT/Interesting Sites to
Explore/Electronic Newsstand/all titles/TDR:The Dram
Review/

 

To subscribe to TDR through the Electronic Newsstand, send your name and address to:

 

tdr@enews.com. Or call: 1-800-40-ENEWS.

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  •      TONGUING THE ZEITGEIST
    A NEW NOVEL BY LANCE OLSEN

 

So you want to be a rock’n’roll star? In a tomorrow that isn’t distant enough, you’ll have to sell your soul to MTV to pick up a guitar. And then they’ll start carving you up, making you over in the mega-media image of glitter and bone….

 

LANCE OLSEN’S many other books include the novel Live from Earth and the first full-length study of the godfather of cyberpunk, William Gibson. His work has appeared in more than 200 magazines and anthologies, among them Mondo 2000, VLS, and Fiction International.

 

To Order:

 

Permeable Press 4
7 Noe Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, CA 94114
bcclark@igc.apc.org
 

ISBN 1-882633-04-0, $11.95

 

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  •      VIRUS 23

 

For those brave souls looking to explore the Secret of Eris, you may wish to check out VIRUS 23.

 

2 and 3 are even and odd, 2 and 3 are 5, therefore 5 is even and odd.

 

VIRUS 23 is a codename for all Erisian literature

 

Don Webb
6304 Laird Dr.
Austin TX 78757
0004200716@mcimail.com
 

VIRUS 23 is the annual hardcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A, the Alberta Department of Spiritual Affairs.

 

All issues are available at $7.00 ppd from:

 

VIRUS 23
Box 46
Red Deer, Alberta
Canada
T4N 5E7
 

Various chunks of VIRUS 23 can be found at Tim Oerting’s alt.cyberpunk ftp site (u.washington.edu, in /public/alt.cyberpunk. Check it out).

 

For more information online contact:

 

Darren Wershler-Henry
grad3057@writer.yorku.ca

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  •      ViViD Magazine

 

The first issue of ViViD Magazine is now available. ViViD is a hypertext magazine about experimental writing and creativity in cyberspace. We are actively seeking contributions for the next issue.

 

The magazine is presented in the colorful, graphics environment of a Windows 3.1 Help File. You will need Windows 3.1 to read the magazine.

 

The magazine will also be available via anonymous FTP at “ftp.gmu.edu”, to obtain it:

 

ftp ftp.gmu.edu
 

username: anonymous
password: (your email address)

 
cd pub/library
binary
get VIVID1.ZIP

 

For more information on ViViD, contact the editor, Justin McHale.
Internet address:

 

jmchale@gmuvax.gmu.edu

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  •      Zines-L

 

announcing a new list available from:

listserv@uriacc

 

To subscribe to Zines-L send a message to:

listserv@uriacc.uri.edu

 

on one line type:
SUBSCRIBE ZINES-L first name last name

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  •      Postmodern Culture’s PMC-MOO

 

PMC-MOO is a service offered (free of charge) by _Postmodern Culture_. PMC-MOO is a real-time, text-based, virtual reality environment in which you can interact with other subscribers of the journal and participate in live conferences. PMC-MOO will also provide access to texts generated by Postmodern Culture and by PMC-TALK, and it will provide the opportunity to experience (or help to design) programs which simulate object- lessons in postmodern theory. PMC-MOO has its own mailing lists on postmodern literature and theory. To connect to PMC-MOO, you must be on the internet. If you have an internet account, you can make a direct connection by typing the command

 

telnet

 

hero.village.virginia.edu 7777
 

at your command prompt. Once you’ve connected to the server, you should receive onscreen instructions on how to log in to PMC-MOO.

 

If you do not receive these onscreen instructions, but instead find yourself with a straight login: and password: prompt, it means that your telnet program or interface is ignoring the 7777 at the end of the command given above, and you will need to ask your local user-support people how to telnet to a specific port number. If you have the Emacs program on your system and would like information about a customized program for PMC-MOO that uses Emacs, contact pmc@unity.ncsu.edu by e-mail. PMC-MOO is based on the LambdaMOO program, freeware by Pavel Curtis.

 

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  •      Representations

 

New ventures in humanities scholarship

Published by the University of California Press

 

". . . widely recognized as among the most innovative outlets for work
in literary criticism, art history, and cultural history."
--Ludmilla Jordanova, Social History of Medicine

Representations is a quarterly interdisciplinary forum offering imaginative and challenging approaches to the study of culture. Since 1983, Representations has devoted its pages to ground-breaking critical thought.

 

RECENT SPECIAL ISSUES:

 

Number 29:  "Entertaining History: American Cinema and Popular
             Culture," edited by Carol J. Clover and Michael Rogin

Number 30:  "Law and the Order of Culture," edited by Rober Post

Number 31:  "The Margins of Identity in Nineteenth-Century
             England"

Number 33:  "The New World," edited by Stephen Greenblatt

Number 37: "Imperial Fantasies and Postcolonial Histories"

Number 42:  "Future Libraries," edited by R. Howard Bloch and Carla
             Hesse

FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES IN 1994:

 

Number 47: Eighteenth-Century Culture

 

Number 48: New Understandings of Eastern Europe

 

SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

 

$33 Individuals
$23 Students (with copy of ID)
$62 Institutions
(add $9.00 for foreign surface postage)

 

Send orders to:
Representations
University of California Press
2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley
CA 94720

 

Order by Phone (510/642-4191)
Fax (510/642-9917)

 

journals@garnet.berkeley.edu
 

Prices subject to change

 

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  •      UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
    HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION LABORATORY
    11th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM & OPEN HOUSE

 

June 13, 1994
    Laying the Foundation for the Information Super Highway:
    Human-Computer Interaction Research

June 14, 1994
    Superteaching in the Electronic Classroom:
    Concepts, Design and Evaluation

June 14, 1994
    Interfaces to Imagination:
    Art, Music, and Poetry in the Digital Village

Sponsored by
    Center for Automation Research University of Maryland

with additional support from
        Computer Science Center
        Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
        Institute for Systems Research

Registration

June 13, 1994

    Laying the Foundation for the Information Super Highway
    (   ) $150 Industry - Full fee includes videotape,       
    technical reports, handouts, demo disk and lunch buffet

    (   ) $110 Faculty/Staff - University faculty & staff fee
    includes videotape, technical reports, handouts, demo    
    disk and lunch buffet

    (   ) Student - Free registrations without materials or  
    lunch will be granted to full-time undergraduate and     
    graduate students space permitting

June 14, 1994
    Superteaching in the Electronic Classroom

    (   ) $80 Industry
    (   ) $50 Faculty/Staff
    (   ) Student

June 14, 1994
    Interfaces to Imagination

    (   ) $60 Industry
    (   ) $40 Educator/Art Practitioner
    (   ) Student

Directions and Parking Info:

 

Please enclose a self addressed stamped envelope with your registration by May 27, 1994 to receive ___ a map and/or ____ a parking permit (indicate what you need). After May 27, permits cannot be requested, so plan to bring lots of quarters for parking meters.

 

There is a 10% reduction for group of 4 or more from the same organization and registering together. Contact Teresa Casey (see below) for details.

 

Since we CANNOT accept charge cards or cash, please enclose with your registration your check made payable to The University of Maryland, or a purchase order with the reference CFAR/HCIL-OH94.

 

Mail to:
        Teresa Casey
        HCIL
        AV Williams Building
        University of Maryland
        College Park, MD 20742-3255
        e-mail:  tcasey@cs.umd.edu

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  •      Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist

 

Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist is a research project investigating the use of hypertext technology by creative writers.

 

The project consists of evaluations of software and hardware, critiques of traditional and computerized works, and a guide to sites of publication.

 

We would like to request writers to submit their works for review. Publishers are requested to send descriptions of their publications with subscription fees and submission formats. We are especially interested to hear from institutions which teach creative writing for the hypertext format.

 

To avoid swamping our e-mail account, please limit messages to a page or two in length. Send works on disk (IBM or Mac) or hardcopy to:

 

Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist
3 Westcott Upper
London, Ontario
N6C 3G6
KEEPC@QUCD>QUEENSU.CA
 

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  •      THE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND POPULAR CULTURECALL FOR PAPERS

 

Scholars are invited to submit manuscripts/reviews that meet the following criteria:

 

ISSUES: The Journal invites critical reviews of films, documentaries, plays, lyrics, and other related visual and performing arts. The Journal also invites original manuscripts from all social scientific fields on the topic of popular culture and criminal justice.

 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: To submit material for the Journal, please subscribe to CJMOVIES through the listserv and a detailed guidelines statement will automatically follow.

 

To subscribe, send a message with the following command to:

 

LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1:
 
SUBSCRIBE CJMOVIES YourFirstName
YourLastName

 

Manuscripts and inquiries should be addressed to:

 

The Editors
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
SUNYCRJ@ALBNYVM1.BITNET
or SUNYCRJ@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU

 

MANAGING EDITORS:

 

Sean Anderson and Greg Ungar
Editors
Journal of CriminalJustice and Popular Culture
School of Criminal Justice, SUNYA 135
Western Avenue Albany, NY 12222

 

INTERNET:

 

SA1171@ALBNYVM1.BITNET or GU8810@uacsc1.albany.edu

 

LIST ADMINISTRATOR:

 

Seth Rosner
School of Criminal Justice, SUNY
SR2602@uacsc1.albany.edu or SR2602@thor.albany.edu
 

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  •      WRITING AND ELECTRONIC SPACE
    CYBORG PERFORMANCE AND POETICS

 

THE LITTLE MAGAZINE is looking for writing and visual artwork which exists in the imagination of media still uncreated.

 

For all of its power and fascination, electronic media are still limited by metaphors clumsily imported from print. James Joyce and Ezra Pound were making hypertexts sixty years before the appropriate technology was created. We are looking for work which can be reproduced in the pages of THE LITTLE MAGAZINE but will inspire the engineers of the third millennium.

 

Although we are interested in adventuresome uses of the technology, it is not technology but vision which is lacking. We do not need virtual reality machines cranking out the same kind of misinformation that we get from television in even more addictive forms, but we are sick also of the polite, conventional thing literature has become. It is so comfortably contained in print. It is mediated and re-mediated (already); it is the subject of schools. We are not interested in work which exemplifies the theories of the past or even the hottest, most engaging theory of the present. We are interested in work which will call forth the media of the future.

 

CYBERPUNK GROW UP!

 

The deadline for the issue is December 15, 1994, but get in touch with us as soon as possible. We will try to find a way to publish important work even if it does not fit neatly into the usual literary magazine format. Tell us about your writing, visual art, sound pieces, videos, multimedia performances, network art, and investigations of genres still unnamed.

 

The Editors
THE LITTLE MAGAZINE
Department of English
State University of New York at Albany
Albany, NY 12222

 

DJB85@csc.albany.edu

 

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  •      Call for Participation:
    National Symposium on Proposed Arts and Humanities Policies for the National Information Infrastructure

 

On October 14th, 15th and 16th, the Center for Art Research in Boston will sponsor a National Symposium on Proposed Arts and Humanities Policies for the National Information Infrastructure.

 

Participants will explore the impact of the Clinton Administration’s AGENDA FOR ACTION and proposed NII legislation on the future of the arts and the humanities in 21st Century America.

 

The symposium will bring together government officials, academics, artists, writers, representatives of arts and cultural institutions and organizations, and other concerned individuals from many disciplines and areas of interest to discuss specific issues of policy which will effect the cultural life of all Americans during the coming decades.

 

To participate, submit a 250-word abstract of your proposal for a paper, panel-discussion or presentation, accompanied by a one-page vitae, by March 15, 1994.

 

Special consideration will be given to those efforts that take a critical perspective of the issues, and are concerned with offering specific alternatives to current administration and congressional agendas.

 

The proceedings of the symposium will be video-taped, and papers and panels will be published on CD-ROM. For further information, reply to:

 

jaroslav@artdata.win.net
 
via return
e-mail.

Thank you, Jay Jaroslav

 

Jay Jaroslav, Director jaroslav@artdata.win.net CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH 241 A Street Boston, MA voice: (617) 451-8030 02210-1302 USA fax: (617) 451-1196

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  •      Announcement and Call for Submissions:
    Postmodern Culture

Postmodern Culture
A SUNY Press Series

Series Editor: Joseph Natoli
Editor: Carola Sautter

 

Center for Integrative Studies, Arts and Humanities Michigan State University

 

We invite submissions of short book manuscripts that present a postmodern crosscutting of contemporary headlines–green politics to Jeffrey Dahmer, Rap Music to Columbus, the Presidential campaign to Rodney King–and academic discourses from art and literature to politics and history, sociology and science to women’s studies, form computer studies to cultural studies.

 

This series is designed to detour us off modernity’s yet-to-be- completed North-South Superhighway to Truth and onto postmodernism’s “forking paths” crisscrossing high and low culture, texts and life-worlds, selves and sign systems, business and academy, page and screen, “our” narrative and “theirs,” formula and contingency, present and past, art and discourse, analysis and activism, grand narratives and dissident narratives, truths and parodies of truths.

 

By developing a postmodern conversation about a world that has overspilled its modernist framing, this series intends to link our present ungraspable “balkanization” of all thoughts and events with the means to narrate and then re-narrate them. Modernity’s “puzzle world” to be “unified” and “solved” becomes postmodernism’s multiple worlds to be represented within the difficult and diverse wholeness that their own multiplicity and diversity shapes and then re-shapes.

 

Accordingly, manuscripts should display a “postmodernist style” that moves easily and laterally across public as well as academic spheres, “inscribes” within as well as “scribes” against realist and modernist modes, and strives to be readable-across-multiple- narratives and “culturally relative” rather than “foundational.”

 

Inquiries, proposals, and manuscripts should be addressed to:

 

Joseph Natoli
Series Editor
20676jpn@msu.edu
 

or

 

Carola Sautter
Editor
SUNY Press
SUNY Plaza
Albany, NY 12246-0001
 

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  •      Call for PapersPSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness

 

You are invited to submit papers for publication in the inaugural issue of PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness (ISSN: 1039-723X).

 

PSYCHE is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that exploration form the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged. PSYCHE publishes a large variety of articles and reports for a diverse academic audience four times per year. As an electronic journal, the usual space limitations of print journals do not apply; however, the editors request that potential authors do not attempt to abuse the medium. PSYCHE also publishes a hardcopy version simultaneously with the electronic version. Long articles published in the electronic format may be abbreviated, synopsized, or eliminated form the hardcopy version.

 

Types of Articles:

 

The journal publishes from time to time all of the following varieties of articles. Many of these (as indicated below) are peer reviewed; all articles are reviewed by editorial staff.

 

Research Articles reporting original research by author(s). Articles may be either purely theoretical or experimental or some combination of the two. Articles of special interest occasionally will be followed by a selection of peer commentaries. Peer Reviewed.

 

Survey Articles reporting on the state of the art research in particular areas. These may be done in the form of a literature review or annotated bibliography. More ambitious surveys will be peer reviewed.

 

Discussion Notes critiques of previous research. Peer Reviewed.

 

Tutorials introducing a subject area relevant to the study of consciousness to non-specialists.

 

Letters providing and informal forum for expressing opinions on editorial policy or upon material previously published in PSYCHE. Screened by editorial staff.

 

Abstracts summarizing the contents of recently published journal articles, books, and conference proceedings.

 

Book Reviews which indicate the contents of recent books and evaluate their merits as contributions to research and/or as textbooks.

 

Announcements of forthcoming conferences, paper submission deadlines, etc.

 

Advertisements of immediate interest to our audience will be published: available grants; positions; journal contents; proposals for joint research; etc.

 

Notes for Authors:

 

Unsolicited submissions of original works within any of the above categories are welcome. Prospective authors should send articles directly to the executive editor. Submissions should be in a single copy if submitted electronically of four (4) copies if submitted by mail.

 

Submitted matter should be preceded by: the author’s name; address; affiliation; telephone number; electronic mail address. Any submission to be peer reviewed should be preceded by a 100- 200 word abstract as well. Note that peer review will be blind, meaning that the prefatory material will not be made available to the referees. In the event that an article needs to be shortened for publication in the print version of PSYCHE, the author will be responsible for making any alterations requested by the editors.

 

Any figures required should be designed in screen-readable ASCII.

 

If that cannot be arranged, figures should be submitted as separate postscript files so that they can be printed out by readers locally.

 

Authors of accepted articles assign to PSYCHE the right to publish the text both electronically and as printed matter and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive. Authors will, however, retain copyright to their articles and may republish them in any forum so long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCHE as the original source of publication.

 

Subscriptions:

 

Subscriptions to the electronic version of PSYCHE may be initiated by sending the one-line command, SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L Firstname Lastname, in the body on an electronic mail message to:

 

LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET

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  •      RESEARCH ON VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS

 

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*     your story. Material acknowledged and terms     *
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*        general press (trade) book planned.          *
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  •      Call for papers:SIXTIES GENERATIONS:
    FROM MONTGOMERY TO VIET NAM
    AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MEETING OF SCHOLARS, ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS

 

Second Annual Conference

November 4-6, 1994

 

Sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and hosted by Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT

 

Call for papers, session proposals, readings, performance art pieces, and workshops.

 

Deadline for proposals: July 15, 1994.

 

The First Annual Sixties Generations conference was held March 4-6, 1993,in Fairfax, Virginia. It was sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and the American Studies, Film Studies and African American Studies Programs of George Mason University. Sixty academic paper presentations, eight poetry and prose readings, one play reading and a concert filled three days. We also held a full-day roundtable discussion, “On the Sixties in the Nineties,” featuring participants who were activists in the Sixties and continue to be so today, including activists in SNCC, SDS, the Black Panther Party, the Yippies, various racial/ethnic formation, antiwar formations, political formations, women’s groups and cultural workers.

 

The event was such a success that _Viet Nam Generation_ decided to do it again this year. [Last year’s program is appended to this Call for Papers.] We welcome submissions in all disciplines, in all topic areas related to the 1960s in the U.S. and internationally.

 

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

 

Please send abstracts (250-500 words) describing your individual presentations, or collections of abstracts describing your panel proposals.

 

Panel sessions will be 90 minutes. Folks interested in putting together whole panels should limit the number of presenters to three, and hold the length of individual presentations down to 20 minutes each, so that sufficient time will be left for audience responses.

 

We welcome individual paper submissions on any topic related to the 1960s. Individual presenters should also limit their presentations to 20 minutes. We will assemble individual presenters into panels.

 

LITERARY READINGS, VIDEO, FILM, AND PERFORMANCE ART

 

If you are interested in reading prose or poetry, submit samples of your work (and tapes of previous of readings, if available). Readings will be limited to 25 minutes per reader.

 

We will consider videos, films, and performance art pieces of up to 45 minutes in length. Please send samples, tapes, video clips, or whatever documentation is most suitable for your medium.

 

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

 

Activists interested in putting on workshops at the conference can propose either 40 minute or 90 minute sessions. Please send a description of the workshop and related materials or publications.

 

We welcome innovative ideas, so if you have an idea that doesn’t seem to fit into one of the categories described above, write and tell us about it.

 

Submit proposals either in hard-copy or over email to:

 

Viet Nam Generation
18 Center Road, Woodbridge, CT 06525
Fax: 203/389-6104

 

kalital@minerva.cis.yale.edu
 

_______________________

 

The morning session will focus on recollections and reflections on people’s involvement in movement work in the 60’s. The afternoon session will focus on the value of the lessons and the continuing agendas and methods of the 60’s movements as they affect the work of social justice in the 90’s.

 

We encourage conference participants to drop in on the Roundtable and join the ongoing discussion. Roundtable participants are also urged to visit other conference events and to join us for a cash bar, reception, and concert at the conclusion of the discussion.

 

Conference Panels

 

9:00-10:30am

 

Panel 9: Viet Nam War Film I
“Viet Nam War Film,” Cynthia Fuchs; “The Heart of Darkness Motif in Vietnam War Texts,” David L. Erben, Univ of South Florida; “Warren Beatty and the Draft,” Katherine Kinney, UC Riverside

 

10:45am-12:15pm

 

Panel 10: Sixties Popular Culture
“Folk Songs and Allusions to Folks Songs in the Repertoire of the Grateful Dead,” Josephine A. McQuail, Tennessee Tech Univ; “Beatles, Beach Boys, Leave It To Beaver, Mustangs, GTO’s Freedom Marches, a sexual revolution, a war and PTSD,” John Ketwig; “Talking about the Beatles,” Bernie Sanders

 

1:30-3:00pm

 

Panel 11: Performing Arts
“Planet Shakespeare: The Bard in Cold War America” Susan Fox, Washington, DC; “Shakespeare, Kerouac & Hedrick,” Donald K. Hedrick, Kansas State Univ; “West African Dance and Race/Culture and Gender Identity in Los Angeles African American Communities,” Phylise Smith, UCLA

 

Panel 12: Reinterpreting the Sixties V
“Peace Through Law: John Seiberling’s Vision of World Order,” Miriam Jackson, Kent, OH; “Reverend Malcolm Boyd and Bishop Paul Moore, Jr.,” Michael B. Friedland, Boston College; Eros on the New Frontier: The Limits of Liberal Tolerance,” Louis J. Kern, Hofstra Univ

 

3:15-4:45pm

 

Panel 13: The Viet Nam War
“The National Liberation Front in South Viet Nam,” Ton That Manh Tuong; “The Tet Offensive and Middletown: A Study in Contradiction,” Anthony O. Edmonds;”The Impact of the American Antiwar Movement on the South Vietnamese Urban Youth Struggle Movement,” Nguyen Huu Thai

 

Panel 14: Viet Nam War Film/Drama II
“Decentering Genre: Vietnam War Films and Portrayal of Reality,” Catherine E. Richardson, Chattanooga, TN; “The Death of the Sixties: Easy Rider & and Deliverance,” Margie Burns, Cheverly, MD;”Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino,” Dave DeRose, Yale Univ

 

5:00-6:30pm

 

Panel 15: Music
“Folkore of the Viet Nam War,” Lydia Fish, SUNY-Buffalo; “In Country Songs,” Chuck Rosenberg; “Pilot Songs of the Viet Nam War,” Chip Dockery

 

7:30pm Concert & Reception
O.V. Hirsch
Chip Dockery
Chuck Rosenberg

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  •      splinter

 

splinter is a new electronic publication that seeks texts in various states of unfinish prose poetry neither both your scraps your scrytch your fragments your language doodles unfinished stories unfinished scenes unfinished sentences experiments freewriting drafts of drafts outlines bits of dialogue directionless musings stanzas that never found their way into poems flashes that dead-ended scribbled down and never became

 

no length guidelines / authors keep all rights

 

rolling submission, no deadlines

 

the contact address at this point is

 

dave1@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
 

send your submissions, subscription requests, questions, and comments (put SPLINTER somewhere in the subject line) e-mail subscriptions are free and encouraged

 

thanks

 

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  •      Special issue of Style on
    Possible Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Postmodern Fiction

 

Deadline for submission: November 30, 1994.

 

To be published in 1995

 

Contributions are solicited on the following topics:

 

1. The centrality of ontological questions in postmodernist fiction and the contribution of the theory of possibleworlds in capturing and formulating the ontological issue. Inparticular: the stacking/embedding of realities, the transgression of ontological boundaries, the uses of recursive structures and their ontological implications.

 

2. Virtual reality (VR) as a technological implementation of the philosophical concept of possible world.

 

3. Challenges to the notion of actual world and alternatives to the “modal structure” in narrative universes. Hypertext and the decentralization of semantic universes. The theme of the disappearance of reality in fiction and theory.

 

4. Hyperrealism as parody of realism in postmodern culture. The philosophical basis of the concept of realism and its connection to virtual reality.

 

5. The thematization (especially in science fiction) of the concepts of virtual reality, parallel universes, alternative possible worlds, immersion in game-worlds, and interplanetary travel as a metaphor for movement across possible worlds.

 

6. Game-theory and the concept of immersion in virtual worlds–as either thematized or implemented in postmodernist fiction or popular fiction.

 

7. The myth of virtual reality in contemporary culture and media.

 

8. Virtual reality as a simulacrum. The role of simulacra (imitations, images, copies) in postmodern culture and fiction. The problematics of the relation between image and reality, sign and referent, original and copy and its implementation in postmodernist fiction.

 

Papers must be original contributions and will be refereed. Length should be between 20 and 40 pages, double spaced. Before submitting a paper, please contact the guest editor:

 

Marie-Laure Ryan
6207 Red Ridge Trail
Bellvue, Colorado 80512

 

mmryan@vines.colostate.edu
 

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  •      U N D E R C U R R E N T

 

Call for Manuscripts

 

UNDERCURRENT is a free journal available on the Internet through e-mail subscriptions. (See end of this message for how to subscribe for free.) We are seeking article submissions or queries with abstracts providing an analysis of the present in terms of discourses, events, representations, classes, or cultures. We seek to publish analysis of the present from diverse intellectual perspectives–feminist, historical, ethnological, sociological, literary, political, semiotic, philosophical, cultural studies, and so forth. We seek applied analysis rather than theory. Any theoretical orientation ought instead to be apparent and immanent in your particular focus on the present. We especially encourage interdisciplinary work. Article length varies according to your needs, anywhere from “short-takes” of 500-1000 words to “feature” of up to 7500 words.

 

As its audience is potentially much broader than that of academic journals held only in university libraries, the style must account for an educated audience which is not necessarily familiar with either the jargon or the debates in a special field. UNDERCURRENT wishes to publish articles that address this broader audience while also conveying a vivid sense of how current academic scholarship can contribute to our understanding of the present. We are attempting to bridge the gulf between academia and the general reading public, a gulf which has allowed various misperceptions about academia to become politically overcharged in the popular media.

 

All submissions will receive a reply, however no copies can be returned. Any major citation format is acceptable, although endnotes must be used rather than footnotes due to the contingencies of various platforms for viewing electronic text. Submissions and queries can be sent in any of the following ways, in order of preference:

 

1.> e-mail to

 

heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu
 
 and note in the
subject field that this is a submission to UNDERCURRENT

 

2.> Mail a floppy diskette with your text in ASCII or WordPerfect (address below).

 

3.> Mail two copies of your essay by traditional post to:

 

UNDERCURRENT
Erick Heroux
Dept. of English
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403

 

ABOUT FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS: You can subscribe yourself to UNDERCURRENT by sending a one-line e-mail message:

 

SUBSCRIBE UNDERCURRENT YOURNAME@DOMAIN.WHERE

 

Address it to:

 

mailserv@oregon.uoregon.edu

 

Problems or questions can be e-mailed to

 

heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu
 

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  •      FEMISA

 

FEMISA@mach1.wlu.ca

 

FEMISA is conceived as a list where those who work on or think about feminism, gender, women and international relations, world politics, international political economy, or global politics, can communicate.

 

Formally, FEMISA was established to help those members of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association keep in touch. More generally, I hope that FEMISA can be a network where we share information in the area of feminism or gender and international studies about publications or articles, course outlines, questions about sources or job opportunities, information about conferences or upcoming events, or proposed panels and information related to the International Studies Association.

 

To subscribe:
send one line message in the BODY of mail-message

 

sub femisa your name

 

to:

 

listserv@mach1.wlu.ca
 

To unsub send the one line message

 

unsub femisa

 

to:

 

listserv@mach1.wlu.ca
 

I look forward to hearing suggestions and comments from you.

 

Owner: Deborah Stienstra

 

stienstr@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca
 
Department of Political Science
        University of Winnipeg

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  •      HOLOCAUS: Holocaust list

 

HOLOCAUS on

 

LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET
 
or
LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU
 

HOLOCAUS@uicvm has become part of the stable of electronic mail discussion groups (“lists”) at the University of Illinois, Chicago. It is sponsored by the University’s History Department and its Jewish Studies Program.

 

To subscribe to HOLOCAUS, you need and Internet or Bitnet computer account. From that account, send this message to:

 

LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET
 
or
LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu
 

SUB HOLOCAUS Firstname Surname

 

Use your own Firstname and Lastname. You will be automatically added. You can read all the mail, and send your own postings to everyone on the list (We have about 100 subscribers around the world right now).

 

Owner:

 

JimMott@spss.com
 

The HOLOCAUS policies are:

 

  •      1. The coverage of the list will include the Holocaust itself, and closely related topics like anti-Semitism, and Jewish history in the 1930’s and 1940’s, as well as related themes in the history of WW2, Germany, and international diplomacy.
  •      2. We are especially interested in reaching college teachers of history who already have, or plan to teach courses on the Holocaust. In 1991-92, there were 265 college faculty in the US and Canada teaching courses on the Holocaust (154 in History departments, 67 in Religion, and 46 in Literature). An even larger number of professors teach units on the Holocaust in courses on Jewish history (taught by 273 faculty) and World War II (taught by 373), not to mention many other possible courses. Most of these professors own PC’s, but do not use them for e-mail. We hope our list will be one inducement to go on line. HOLOCAUS will therefore actively solicit syllabi, reading lists, termpaper guides, ideas on films and slides, and tips and comments that will be of use to the teacher who wants to add a single lecture, or an entire course.
  •      3. H-Net is now setting up an international board of editors to guide HOLOCAUS policy and to help stimulate contributions.
  •      4. HOLOCAUS is moderated by Jim Mott (JimMott@spss.com), a PhD in History. The moderator will solicit postings (by e- mail, phone and even by US mail), will assist people in subscribing and setting up options, will handle routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings. The moderator will also solicit and post newsletter type information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings of sessions at conventions). It may prove feasible to commission book and article reviews, and to post book announcements from publishers. Anyone with suggestions about what HOLOCAUS can and might do is invited to send in the ideas.
  •      5. The tone and target audience will be scholarly, and academic standards and styles will prevail. HOLOCAUS is affiliated with the International History Network.
  •      6. HOLOCAUS is a part of H-Net, a project run by computer- oriented historians at the U of Illinois. We see moderated e-mail lists as a new mode of scholarly communication; they have enormous potential for putting in touch historians from across the world. Our first list on urban history, H- URBAN@UICVM, recently started up with Wendy Plotkin as moderator. H-WOMEN is in the works, with discussions underway about other possibilities like Ethnic, Labor, and US South. We are helping our campus Jewish Studies program set up JSTUDY (restricted to the U of Illinois Chicago campus, for now), and are considering the creation of H- JEWISH, also aimed at academics, but covering the full range of scholarship on Jewish history. If you are interested in any of these projects, please e-write Richard Jensen, for we are now (as of late April) in a critical planning stage.
  •      7. H-Net has an ambitious plan for training historians across the country in more effective use of electronic communications. Details of the H-Net plan are available on request from Richard Jensen, the director, at: campbelld@apsu or u08946@uicvm.uic.edu

 

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  •      NewJour-L@e-math.ams.org

NewJour-L aims to accomplish two objectives; it is both a list and a project.

 

FIRST:

 

NewJour-L is the place to announce your own (or to forward information about others’) newly planned, newly issued, or revised electronic networked journal or newsletter. It is specially dedicated for those who wish to share information in the planning, gleam-in-the-eye stage or at a more mature stage of publication development and availability.

 

It is also the place to announce availability of paper journals and newsletters as they become available on electronic networks. Scholarly discussion lists which regularly and continuously maintain supporting files of substantive articles or preprints may also be reported, for those journal-like sections.

 

We hope that those who see announcements on Bitnet, Internet, Usenet or other media will forward them to NewJour-L, but this does run a significant risk of boring subscribers with a number of duplicate messages. Therefore, NewJour-L IS filtered through a moderator to eliminate this type of duplication.

 

It does not attempt to cover areas that are already covered by other lists. For example, sources like NEW-LIST describe new discussion lists; ARACHNET deals with social and cultural issues of e-publishing; VPIEJ-L handles many matters related to electronic publishing of journals. SERIALST discusses the technical aspects of all kinds of serials. You should continue to subscribe to these as you have done before, and contribute to them.

 

SECOND:

 

NewJour-L represents an identification and road-mapping project for electronic journals and newsletters, begun by Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa. NewJour-L will expand and continue that work.

 

As new publications are reported, a NewJour-L support group will develop the following services — planning is underway & we ask that anyone who would like to participate as below, let us know:

 

  •      A worksheet will be sent to the editors of the new e-publication for completion. This will provide detailed descriptions about bibliographic, content, and access characteristics.
  •      An original cataloguing record will be created.
  •      The fully catalogued title will be reported to national utilities and other appropriate sites so that there is a bibliographic record available for subsequent subscribers or searchers.
  •      The records will feed a directory and database of these titles.
Not all the of the implementation is developed, and the work
will expand over the next year.  We thank you for your
contributions, assistance, and advice, which will be
invaluable.

 

SUBSCRIBING:

 

To subscribe, send a message to:

LISTSERV@e-math.ams.org

Leave the subject line blank.

In the body, type: SUBSCRIBE NewJour-L FirstName LastName

You will have to subscribe in order to post messages to this list.

To drop out or postpone, use the standard LISTSERV (Internet) directions.

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

 

For their work in defining the elements of this project and for their support to date, we thank:

 

Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa, Advisor
David Rodgers, American Mathematical Society, Systems & Network Support
Edward Gaynor, University of Virginia Library, Original Cataloguing Development
John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library, Systems & Network Support
Birdie MacLennan, University of Vermont Library, Cataloguing and Indexing Development
Diane Kovacs, Kent State University Library, Advisor

 

We anticipate this will become a wider effort as time passes, and we welcome your interest in it. This project is co-ordinated through:

 

The Association of Research Libraries
Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
e-mail: osap@cni.org
 
(Ann Okerson)

 

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  •      NII-TEACH

 

Scholastic Network, Scholastic Inc. is pleased to announce a new list dedicated to the discussion of the National Information Infrastructure and its role in education.

 

As you know, policy decisions made about the NII will affect how teachers and students use online services, how they will be accessed, how they will be paid for, and who will be able to get these services first.

 

We are encouraging you to share your views on the NII and what it should offer teachers. Moderators of this list are Bonnie Bracey, the Arlington, VA classroom teacher appointed to the NII Advisory panel, Leni Donlan of CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) and Jane Coffey, a teacher-member of the Scholastic Network.

 

This unmoderated list will only be on-line from March through June 1994. All classroom teachers and others interested in sharing feedback about education for the NII advisory group are invited to participate.

 

To subscribe to NII-TEACH, send email to:

 

NII-Teach-request@scholastic.com
 

Leave the subject line blank.

The text of the message should say:

subscribe NII-Teach yourfirstname yourlastname

 

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  •      popcult@camosun.bc.ca Popular Culture

 

The POPCULT list is now in place. It is open to analytical discussion of all aspects of popular culture. The list will not be moderated. Material relevant to building bridges between popular culture and traditional culture will be very strongly encouraged.

 

To subscribe, unsubscribe, get help, etc, send a message to:

 

mailserv@camosun.bc.ca

 

There should not be anything in the ‘Subject:’ line and the body of the message should have the specific keyword on a line by itself.

 

Some keywords are:
SUBSCRIBE POPCULT
HELP
LISTS
SEND/LIST POPCULT
UNSUBSCRIBE POPCULT

 

It is possible to send multiple commands, each on a separate line. Do not include your name after SUBSCRIBE POPCULT. In some ways this server is a simplified version of the major servers, but it is also more streamlined. I recommend, to start, that you put SUBSCRIBE on one line, and HELP on the next line. That will give you a full listing of available commands.

 

To send messages to the list for distribution to list members for exchange of ideas, etc, send messages to:

 

popcult@camosun.bc.ca

 

Owner:
Peter Montgomery Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca Professor Dept of English ph (604) 370-3342 (o) Camosun College (fax) (604) 370-3346 3100 Foul Bay Road Victoria, BC Off. Paul Bldg 326 CANADA V8P 5J2
 

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  •      NEH DEADLINES

 

Below is a full list of application deadlines for NEH programs, plus contact numbers for individual programs. All telephone numbers are in area code 202. To receive guidelines for any NEH program, contact the Office of Publications and Public Affairs at (202) 606-8438. Guidelines are normally available at least two months in advance of application deadlines.

 

DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS
James C. Herbert, Director (606-8373)

 

PROGRAM / CONTACT                         DEADLINE         
PROJECTS BEGINNING

 

Higher Education in the Humanities (Lyn Maxwell White; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994

 

Institutes for College & University Faculty (Barbara Ashbrook; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 Summer 1995

 

Science & Humanities Education (Susan Greenstein; 606-8380) 15 March 1994 October 1994

 

Core Curriculum Projects (Fred Winter; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994

 

Two-Year Colleges (Judith Jeffrey Howard; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994

 

Challenge Grants (Thomas Adams; 606-8380) 1 May 1994 December 1994

 

Elementary & Secondary Education in the Humanities (F. Bruce Robinson; 606-8377) 15 March 1994 December 1994

 

Teacher-Scholar Program (Annette Palmer; 606-8377) 1 May 1994 September 1995

 

Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education Higher Education (Lyn Maxwell White; 606-8380) 15 March 1994 October 1994

 

Elementary & Secondary Education (F. Bruce Robinson; 606-8377) 15 March 1994 October 1994

 

DIVISION OF FELLOWSHIPS & SEMINARS
Marjorie A. Berlincourt, Director (606-8458)

 

PROGRAM / CONTACT                       DEADLINE          
PROJECTS BEGINNING

Fellowships for University Teachers
(Maben D. Herring; 606-8466)            1 May 1994             
1 January 1995

Fellowships for College Teachers &
Independent Scholars
(Joseph B. Neville; 606-8466)           1 May 1994             
1 January 1995

Summer Stipends
(Thomas O'Brien; 606-8466)              1 October 1994           
1 May 1995

Faculty Graduate Study Program for
HBCUs (Maben D. Herring; 606-8466)      15 March 1994        
1 September 1995

Younger Scholars Program
(Leon Bramson; 606-8463)                1 November 1994          
1 May 1995

Dissertation Grants
(Kathleen Mitchell; 606-8463)           15 November 1994     
1 September 1995

Study Grants for College & University
Teachers (Clayton Lewis; 606-8463)      15 August 1994           
1 May 1995

Summer Seminars for College Teachers
(Joel Schwartz; 606-8463)
   Participants                          1 March 1994            
Summer 1994

   Directors                             1 March 1994            
Summer 1995

Summer Seminars for School Teachers
(Michael Hall; 606-8463)
   Participants                          1 March 1994            
Summer 1994

   Directors                             1 April 1994            
Summer 1995

DIVISION OF PRESERVATION & ACCESS
George F. Farr, Jr., Director (606-8570)

 

PROGRAM / CONTACT                         DEADLINE         
PROJECTS BEGINNING

Library & Archival Research Projects
(Vanessa Piala/Charles Kolb; 606-8570)  1 June 1994             
January 1995

Library & Archival Preservation/Access
Projects (Karen Jefferson/Barbara
Paulson; 606-8570)                      1 June 1994             
January 1995

National Heritage Preservation Program
(Richard Rose/Laura Word; 606-8570)     1 November 1994          
July 1995

U. S. Newspaper Program
(Jeffrey Field; 606-8570)               1 June 1994              
July 1995

DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Marsha Semmel, Acting Director (606-8267)

 

PROGRAM / CONTACT                         DEADLINE         
PROJECTS BEGINNING

  Humanities Projects in Media
(James Dougherty; 606-8278)            11 March 1994           
1 October 1994

  Humanities Projects in Museums &
Historical Organizations
(Fredric Miller; 606-8284)             3 June 1994             
1 January 1995

  Public Humanities Projects
(Wilsonia Cherry; 606-8271)            11 March 1994           
1 October 1994

  Humanities Projects in Libraries
(Thomas Phelps; 606-8271)

Planning 4 February 1994 1 July 1994 Implementation 11 March 1994 1 October 1994 Challenge Grants (Abbie Cutter; 606-8361) 1 May 1994 December 1994

 

 

DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Guinevere L. Griest, Director (606-8200)

 

PROGRAM / CONTACT                         DEADLINE         
PROJECTS BEGINNING

  Scholarly Publications
(Margot Backas; 606-8207)
  Editions
(Douglas Arnold; 606-8207)            1 June 1994              
1 April 1995

  Translations
(Helen Aguerra; 606-8207)             1 June 1994              
1 April 1995

  Subventions (606-8207)              15 March 1994          
1 October 1994

  Reference Materials
(Jane Rosenberg; 606-8358)
  Tools
(Martha B. Chomiak; 606-8358)         1 September 1994          
1 July 1995

  Guides
(Michael Poliakoff; 606-8358)         1 September 1994          
1 July 1995

  Challenge Grants
(Bonnie Gould; 606-8358)              1 May 1994             
December 1994

  Interpretive Research Programs
(George Lucas; 606-8210)
  Collaborative Projects
(Donald C. Mell; 606-8210)            15 October 1994           
1 July 1995

  Archaeology Projects
(Bonnie Magness-Gardiner; 606-8210)   15 October 1994          
1 April 1995

  Humanities, Science, and Technology
(Daniel Jones; 606-8210)              15 October 1994           
1 July 1995

  Conferences
(David Coder; 606-8210)               15 January 1994        
1 October 1994

  Centers & International Research
Organizations (Christine Kalke; 606-8210)
  Centers for Advanced Study            1 October 1994           
1 July 1995

  International Research                1 April 1994           
1 January 1995

DIVISION OF STATE PROGRAMS
Carole Watson, Director (606-8254)

 

Each state humanities council establishes its own grant guidelines and application deadlines. Addresses and telephone numbers of these state programs may be obtained from the NEH Division of State Programs.

 

CHALLENGE GRANTS PROGRAM

Applications are submitted through the Divisions of Education, Research, and Public Programs. Deadline is 1 May 1994 for projects beginning December 1994.

 

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  •      GOPHEUR LITTERATURES

 

Announcing the “gopheur LITTERATURES” at the Universite de Montreal.

 

Address:

gopher.litteratures.Umontreal.ca 7070

 

or through the University of Montreal Main Gopher:

 

Address:

gopher.Umontreal.ca

 

Gopher servers are sprouting like mushrooms these days. Not only universities have gopher servers, but also departments now. They can be very useful tools to locate information and students here are very fond of them. They are also the first step towards much more sophisticated modes of accessing collections of research and bibliographic data, e-texts, etc…

 

The “Gopheur LITTERATURES” at the Universite de Montreal (UdM) just happens to be the first gopher dedicated to teaching, research and publications on French Literature, Quebecois Literature and Francophone Literatures, and also the first gopher to do so in french, albeit without the accents for the moment. (In the future we will offer the choice between ASCII and ISO-LATIN, as is currently being done on others gophers in the province of Quebec).

 

The “Gopheur LITTERATURES” is in construction. This means it will be evolving. Items on the main menu indicate a program of research conducted at the Department of etudes francaises. The goal of the gopher is to offer electronic documentation on the Departement d’etudes francaises, and to establish a resource center for information, tools, links, documents, local and international, to be used by the computing community of French scholars and students.

 

All comments and suggestions of sites of interest to French Studies should be sent to:

 

Gophlitt@ere.Umontreal.ca
or
Christian Allegre
allegre@ere.umontreal.ca
Universite de Montreal
Departement d’etudes francaises
 

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  •      AMERICAN LITERATURE SUBLIST

 

AMERICAN LIT ANTHOLOGY #1 (upgraded April 1994)
  one disk, 1.1 Mbyte
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Our Mr. Wrenn -- Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by
   Sinclair Lewis
Renascence & other poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
  one disk, 1.1 Mbytes
Little Women

HORATIO ALGER
  one disk, 900 Kbytes
Cast Upon the Breakers
Ragged Dick or Street Life in New York
Struggling Upward

AMBROSE BIERCE
  one disk, 800 Kbytes
Can Such Things Be, The Devil's Dictionary

WILLA CATHER
  two disks, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (1.2 Mbytes) -- O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark
Disk #2 (200 Kbytes) -- Alexander's Bridge

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER #1
  one disk, 1 Mbyte, SGML
The Last of the Mohicans

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
  one disk, 1.2 Mbytes
House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter

HENRY JAMES
  two disks, both SGML, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (900 Kbytes) -- The Europeans, Confidence
Disk #2 (1.2 Mbytes) -- Roderick Hudson, Watch and Ward

JACK LONDON
  two disks, both SGML, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (1.2 Mbytes) -- Sea Wolf, Stories
Disk #2 (900 Kbytes) -- Klondike, White Fang

HERMAN MELVILLE
  two disks, SGML, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (800 Kbytes) -- Moby Dick #1
Disk #2 (690 Kbytes) -- Moby Dick #2

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
  one disk, 300 Kbytes
Parnassus on Wheels

FRANK NORRIS #1
  one disk, 800 Kbytes
The Pit

EDGAR ALLAN POE
  28 tales on one disk, 1 Mbyte
These include The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue,
The Fall of the House of Usher, etc.

MARK TWAIN
  four disks, $10 each, $40 for the set
Disk #1 (1 Mbyte) -- Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
Disk #2 (1.1 Mbyte) -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
  Court, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, Extracts
  from Adam's Diary, The Great Revolution in Pitcairn, A
  Ghost Story, Niagara, My Watch, Political Economy, A New
  Crime
Disk #3 (900 Kbytes) -- What Is Man? and Other Essays,
  The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (upgraded Dec. 1993)
Disk #4 (1 Mbyte) -- A Tramp Abroad

 

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  •      ENGLISH LITERATURE SUBLIST, April 2, 1994

 

BEOWULF TO 1800

CANTERBURY /BEOWULF/GAWAYNE
  one disk, 1.1 Mbytes
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Beowulf translated by Francis Gummere
Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght (SGML)
Gammer Gurton's Needle (SGML)

SHAKESPEARE
  five disks, each of which  includes a glossary in addition
  to the Shakespeare texts, $10 each, $50 for the set
Disk #1 (1.1 Mbytes)  -- Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Othello,
  Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar,  Romeo and Juliet
Disk #2 (1 Mbyte)  -- All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like
  It, Love's Labor's Lost, Midsummer Night's Dream , Much
  Ado About Nothing ,Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night
Disk #3 (1.3 Mbytes) -- Henry IV Parts 1 and 2,  Henry V,
  Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3,, Richard II,  Richard III
Disk #4 (1 Mbyte) -- Tempest, Winter's Tale, Cymbeline,
  Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of
  Verona, Comedy of Errors, Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint,
  Other Poems
Disk #5 (1.3 Mbytes) -- Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida,
  Henry VIII, King John, Pericles, Timon of Athens, Titus
  Andronicus, Merry Wives of Windsor, Rape of Lucrece, Venus
  and Adonis

BEN JONSON #1
  one disk, 600 Kbytes
Bartholomew Fair
Volpone

JOHN MILTON
  one disk, 600 Kbytes
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained

MOORE/BACON/DRYDEN/MARVELL
  one disk, 1.2 Mbytes
Utopia by Thomas Moore
New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
John Dryden's translation of The Aeneid
Poems by Andrew Marvell (SGML)

JOHN GAY/JOHN BUNYAN
  one disk 500 Kbytes
The Beggar's Opera
Pilgrim's Progress

***1800-1918

JANE AUSTEN #1
  one disk, 1 Mbyte
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey

EMILY BRONTE
  one disk, 675 Kbytes
Wuthering Heights

WILKIE COLLINS
  two disks, SGML, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (800 Kbytes) -- Woman in White #1
Disk #2 (800 Kbytes) -- Woman in White #2

JOSEPH CONRAD
  two disks, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (1.1 Mbytes) -- Lord Jim, The Secret Sharer,
  The Heart of Darkness
Disk #2 (400 Kbytes) -- The Nigger of the Narcissus (SGML)

CHARLES DICKENS
  three disks, $10 each, $30 for the set
Disk #1 (600 Kbytes) -- A Christmas Carol, The Chimes,
  The Cricket on the Hearth
Disk #2 (900 Kbytes) -- A Tale of Two Cities
Disk #3 (1.1 Mbytes)  SGML -- Great Expectations

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
  four disks, $10 each, $40 for the set
Disk #1 (1.1 Mbytes) --The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
  The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Disk #2 (1.1 Mbytes) -- The Return of Sherlock Holmes, A
  Study in Scarlet, The Poison Belt
Disk #3 (1.1 Mbytes) -- Through the Magic Door, The Memoirs
  of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four
Disk #4 (1 Mbyte) -- His Last Bow, The Hound of the
  Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear

ELIZABETH GASKELL #1
  one disk, 300 Kbytes, SGML
Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family

H. RYDER HAGGARD #1
  one disk, 500 Kbytes
King Solomon's Mines

THOMAS HARDY
  three disks, $10 each, $30 for the set
Disk #1 (800 Kbytes) -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Disk #2 (1 Mbyte)  -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
     this disk is available in either SGML or plain ASCII, please
specify
Disk #3 (900 Kbytes) -- Return of the Native

ANTHONY HOPE
  one disk, 400 Kbytes
The Prisoner of Zenda

SOMERSET MAUGHAM
  two disks, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (700 Kbytes) -- Of Human Bondage chapters 1-59
Disk #2 (800 Kbytes) -- Of Human Bondage chapters 60-end

WILLIAM MORRIS
  one disk, 500 Kbytes, SGML
News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest, Being Some
  Chapters from a Utopian Romance

BARONESS ORCZY
  one disk, 600 Kbytes
The Scarlet Pimpernel

SIR WALTER SCOTT
  two disks, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (1.2 Mbytes) -- Ivanhoe
Disk #2 (1.1 Mbytes) -- Chronicles of the Canongate,
  Keepsake Stories

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
  two disks, $10 each, $20 for the set
Disk #1 (1 Mbyte) -- Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Treasure
Island
Disk #2 (600 Kbytes) -- New Arabian Nights
Disk  #3 (900 Kbytes) -- The Wrecker

ANTHONY TROLLOPE
  eleven disks, SGML,  $10 each, $110 for the set
Ayala's Angel, one disk, 1.3 Mbytes
Rachel Ray, one disk, 900 Kbytes
Wortle's School, Lady Anna, one disk, 1.3 Mbytes
Phineas Finn, two disks, 900 and 800 Kbytes
Redux, two disks, 800 Kbytes each
The Eustace Diamonds, Volume 1, two disks, 800 Kbytes each
Can You Forgive Her?, two disks, 900 Kbyte and 1 Mbyte
Please let us know if you would like to receive by email other
sublists (listed below), our complete current list of 240 disks,
or information on how to order.

 

NON-FICTION
Classics
Computers & networks
History
Math
Modern Languages
Philosophy
Religion
Science
Tools for librarians & serious researchers
Tools for teachers, counsellors & school administrators
World & government

FICTION
American Literature
Children's Lit
English Literature
   Beowulf to 1800
   1800 to 1918
Science Fiction/Fantasy

B&R Samizdat Express
PO Box 161
West Roxbury, MA 02132
samizdat@world.std.com

 

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  •      Spelunk with International Artist

 

Explore the urban unknown. Spelunk under bridges in Chicago with international artist. Call Keith at 313.995-3490.

 

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