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Journal and Book Announcements:
1) _Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology_
2) _boundary 2_
3) _College Literature_
4) _Genders_
5) _OCTOBER_
6) _Poetics Today_
7) _SAQ_
8) _SSCORE_
9) _Tel Aviv Review_
10) _Electronic Networking: Research, Applications, and Policy_
11) _Reading Pictures/Viewing Texts_, by Claude Gandelman
12) _Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters_ (print)
13) _Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters_ (email)
14) _Journal of Communication Inquiry_
15) _Pynchon Notes_
16) _Artpaper_
17) _MeckJournal_
18) _Monographic Review/ Revista Monographica_
Symposia, Discussion Groups, Calls for Papers:
19) International Symposium, The Netherlands, Dec. 18-19, 1991
20) Console-ing Passions: Television, Video and Feminist
studies. April 3 & 4, 1992, University of Iowa - Iowa City
21) HYPERTEXT '91, 15-18 December 1991, San Antonio, Texas
22) DERRIDA electronic mail discussion group
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A Special Issue of
_Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology_
5:l (Spring 1991)
_The Emergency of Black and the Emergence of Rap_
Jon Michael Spencer, Editor
_The Emergency of Black and the Emergence of Rap_ focuses on
rap music as a new form of African-American oral expression,
capable of voicing the full range of concerns within the black
community, from sexuality to spirituality. Featuring a poetic
postscript by C. Eric Lincoln, this volume also presents essays
on hip-hop, the debate over obscene lyrics, ghetto culture, and
Islamic ideology. Public Enemy, Kool Moe Dee, and M.C. Hammer
are among the many performers discussed in this volume.
Single copy price: $10.00
To order your copy today, call (919) 684-6837 between 8:30 a.m.
and 4:30 p.m. EST, with credit card information (VISA or
Mastercard).
--Semiannual--
Subscriptions: $30.00 institutions, $15.00 individuals. Please
add $4.00 postage outside the U.S.
Duke University Press, Journals Division
6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708
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_boundary 2_
an international journal of literature and culture
Paul A. Bove, Editor
Future special issues include:
Japan in the World
edited by Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian
Postmodern Feminisms
edited by Margaret Ferguson and Jennifer Wicke
Postmodern America and the New Americanists
edited by Donald E. Pease
Recent and forthcoming essays:
Correcting Kant: Bakhtin and Intercultural Interactions /Wlad
Godzich
"Through all things Modern": Second Thoughts on Testimonio /John
Beverly
Eurocentric Reflections: On the Modernism of Soseki /Fredric
Jameson
"The Most Suffering Class": Gender, Class, and Consciousness in
Pre-Marxist France /Margaret Cohen
--Three issues annually--
Subscription prices: $40.00 institutions, $20.00 individuals.
Add $6.00 postage outside the U.S.
Duke University Press, Journals Division
6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708
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_college_
LITERATURE
A triannual journal addressing topics in
the college literature classroom from
Plato to poststructuralism.
Recent and forthcoming special issues:
The Politics of Teaching Literature (June/October 1990)
Literary Theory in the Classroom (June 1991)
Teaching Minority Literatures (October 1991)
Special section on Cultural Studies (February 1992)
Teaching Commonwealth or Postcolonial Literatures (June
1992)
_The Waste Land_ and _Ulysses_ (October 1992)
Recent contributors include Houston A. Baker, Jr., Patrick
Brantlinger, Robert Con Davis, Elizabeth A. Flynn, Barbara Foley,
Henry A. Giroux, Adele King, Cary Nelson, Hershel Parker, Michael
Payne, Paul Smith, Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, and Donald Morton.
Subscription prices: Individuals $15/year, $27/2 years
Institutions $18/year, $33/2 years
Outside U.S. and Canada, add $5/year surface or $10/year air mail
Prepaid orders to College Literature Fund, 544 Main Hall, West
Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, USA, 215-436-2901.
Payment in U.S. funds only.
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The University of Texas Press
presents a special issue of _Genders_
THEORIZING NATIONALITY, SEXUALITY, AND RACE
Editor: Ann Kibbey
University of Colorado at Boulder
Austin, TX--_Genders_, an interdisciplinary journal in the arts,
humanities, and mass media, explores the cultural and historical
relationship of sexuality and gender to political, economic, and
stylistic concerns.
Theorizing Nationality, Sexuality, and Race, _Genders_ #10 is a
special issue presenting the work of some of the most exciting
new writers in multicultural theory including Chela Sandoval,
Tani Barlow, and Jenny Sharpe. Together with an important
statement by historian Linda Gordon on the concept of difference
in U.S. feminism, these essays redefine the critical juncture of
nationality, sexuality, and race for contemporary theory as they
discuss such topics as:
U.S. Third World Feminism
Colonialism in India
Vietnamese Cinema
"Difference"
Women's Rights in Algeria
Chinese Women, State, and Family
Published triannually in April, August, and December
Subscription Rates: Individual $24, Institution $40
Single Copy Rates: Individual $9, Institution $14
_Genders_ is published by the University of Texas Press
in cooperation with the
University of Colorado at Boulder
Please contact Leah Dixon for a review copy--
(512) 471-4531
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Art / Theory / Criticism / Politics
OCTOBER
editors
Joan Copjec
Rosalind Drauss
Annette Michelson
Examine the central cultural
issues of our times . . .
"OCTOBER is among the most advanced
journals . . . in the fields of art
theory, criticism, history, and
practice. Its current editors
. . . are intimately familiar with
the cultural and political avant
garde of Europe and the U.S. and
are able to attract its best
thinkers . . . . Few, if any,
could receive a higher
recommendation."
--Choice
6: Beckett's "...but the
clouds...," Kristeva, Pleynet,
and Sollers on the United States,
Texts by Tom Bishop, Michael Brown,
Octavio Armand, and others.
32: Hollis Frampton: A Special
Issue. Texts by Annette Michelson,
Barry Goldensohn, Hollis Frampton,
Christopher Phillips, Bruce Jenkins,
Peter Gidal, Allen S. Weiss, Brian
Henderson.
52: Stephen Melville on
postmodernity and art history.
Michelson on Vertov's Three Songs
of Lenin. Krauss on Sherrie
Levine. Trinh T. Minh-ha on
documentary. Thierry de Duve on
Marcel Duchamp.
Published quarterly by
The MIT Press
ISSN 0162-2870
Yearly Rates: $30.00 Individual
$65.00 Institution
$20.00 Student and
Retired.
Add $14.00 postage and handling
outside U.S.A. Prepayment is required.
Send check drawn against a U.S. bank
in U.S. funds, MasterCard or Visa
number to:
MIT Press Journals
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Cambridge, MA 02142
U.S.A.
(617) 258-2889
telex: 92-1473 MIT CAM
fax: 617-258-6779
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_Poetics Today_
International Journal for Theory and Analysis of
Literature and Communication
Itamar Even-Zohar, Editor
Brian McHale, Coeditor
Ruth Ronen, Associate Editor
_Poetics Today_ brings together scholars from throughout the
world who are concerned with developing systematic approaches to
the study of literature, and with applying such approaches to the
interpretation of literary works. Its pages present a remarkable
diversity of approaches, and examine a wide range of literary and
critical topics.
Recent and forthcoming special issues:
Narratology Revisited, Parts I, II, and III
Polysystem Studies
Disciplinarity
National Literatures / Social spaces
Quarterly
Subscription rates: $56 institutions, $28 individuals,
$14 students.
Please add $8 for postage outside the U.S.
Duke University Press, Journals Division
6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708
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_SAQ_
_Rock & Roll and Culture_
90:4 (Fall 1991)
Anthony De Curtis, Special Issue Editor
Robert Palmer on the Church of the Sonic Guitar
Trent Hill on Censorship in Rock Music in the 1950s
Greil Marcus's "A Corpse in Your Mouth"
Glenn Gass asks "Why Don't We Do It in the Classroom?"
Paul Smith on Playing for England
David R. Shumway on Rock & Roll as Cultural Practice
Robert B. Ray on Tracking
Mark Dery on Laurie Anderson's Crisis of Meaning
Michael Jarrett on the Progress of Rock & Roll
Paul Evans's "Los Angeles, 1999"
Martha Nell Smith on Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen
Alan Light on Rap's Recurrent Conflict
Dan Rubey on Desire and Pleasure on MTV
Jeff Calder's Observations on Life in a Rock & Roll Band
Subscription prices: $20.00 individuals, $40.00 institutions
Please add $8.00 for postage outside the U.S.
Single issue price: $10.00
Duke University Press, Journals Division
6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708
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_SSCORE_
_Social Science Computer Review_
G. David Garson, Editor
_SSCORE_ provides a unique forum for social scientists to acquire
and share information on the research and teaching applications
of microcomputing.
Recent special issues:
Computerized Simulation in the Social Sciences
Edited by David Crookall
The State of the Art of Social Science Computing
Edited by G. David Garson
Symposium on Computer Literacy:
Implications for the Social Sciences
Edited by William H. Dutton and Ronald E. Anderson
Quarterly
Subscription prices: $72.00 institutions, $36.00 individuals
Please add $8.00 postage outside the U.S.
Duke University Press, Journals Division
6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708
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_Tel Aviv Review_
An International Annual Literary Anthology
Volume 3
Gabriel Moked, Editor
"Rarely has a new literary journal entered the marketplace with
such grace and force as the _Tel Aviv Review_"--Judaica Book News
_Tel Aviv Review_ brings together diverse fiction and nonfiction
writing, much of it on topics concerning Judaism, Israel, and the
Middle East.
Highlights from this 500-page collection include four chapters
from a new novel by Amos Oz; S. Yizhar on the 1947-48 Israeli War
of Independence; an essay by Robert B. Alter on modern Israeli
fiction; poetry by Yehuda Amaichai; a radio play by Gabriel
Josipovici; and an interview with George Steiner.
Also available: The _Tel Aviv Review_ Volumes 1 and 2
Retail price, $19.95--see your bookseller.
Prepaid subscription price for individuals, direct from Duke
University Press, $14.00.
Duke University Press, Journals Division
6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708
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Announcing a New Journal
ELECTRONIC NETWORKING:
RESEARCH, APPLICATIONS, AND POLICY
A new journal will be published in Fall, 1991: ELECTRONIC
NETWORKING: RESEARCH, APPLICATIONS, AND POLICY, edited by Charles
R. McClure with Associate Editors: Ann Bishop and Philip Doty and
Resource Review Editor: Joe Ryan.
This cross-disciplinary journal will provide coverage of an
evolving area of information technology and communication: the
rapidly growing use of telecommunications networks to provide
information services and products. The journal will publish
papers that report research findings related to electronic
networks, that identify and assess policy issues related to
networking and that describe current and potential applications
of electronic networking.
The purpose of the journal is to describe, evaluate, and foster
understanding of the role and applications of electronic
networks. Moreover, the journal intends to promote and encourage
the successful use of electronic networks. The journal will be
of interest to network users, managers, and policy makers in the
academic, computer, communication, library, and government
communities.
Volume 1 will consist of two issues published in August and
November, 1991. Volume 2 and future volumes will consist of four
issues to be published in February, May, August, and November.
Initially the journal will appear in paper format. The editors
and publisher are exploring options to move into an electronic
format at a future date.
The editors welcome contributions on topics related to electronic
networks such as:
--Uses and impacts of electronic networks in research and
education
--Managerial and organizational concerns
--Standards
--Technical considerations in the design and operation of
networks
--Public and private sector roles and responsibilities in network
development
--Social and behavioral factors affecting the use and
effectiveness of networks
--The development of the National Education and Research Network
(NREN)
--Infrastructures needed to support electronic networking
--Policy issues at the national, regional, state, and
institutional levels affecting the use and development of
electronic networks.
Types of contributions may range from reports on research,
assessments of policies and applications, or opinion essays.
Papers will be reviewed by an Editorial Board and external
experts as appropriate. A Resource Review section will
critically evaluate the latest books journals, reports and
networked information of interest to our readers.
Prospective contributors to the journal should contact Charles R.
McClure, Editor, (CMCCLURE@suvm.acs.syr.edu) Ann Bishop,
Associate Editor, (A71BISHO@suvm.acs.syr.edu); Philip Doty,
Associate Editor, (P71DOTYX@suvm.acs.syr.edu); or Joe Ryan,
Resource Review Editor, (JORYAN@suvm.acs.syr.edu); at the School
of Information Studies, Syracuse University 4-206 Center for
Science & Technology, Syracuse NY, 13244-4100; Phone: (315)
443-2911; Fax: (315) 443-5806 for additional information and
guidelines for the submission of manuscripts.
Personal subscriptions to the journal are $33 per year;
institutional subscriptions are $75 per year; $15 additional for
subscriptions outside the United States. Additional information
regarding subscriptions can be obtained from Meckler Publishing
Company, 1-800-635-5537 or via the internet
(meckler@tigger.jvnc.net).
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READING PICTURES/VIEWING TEXTS
by Claude Gandelman
is now available from
Indiana University Press
10th and Morton Street
BLOOMIGTON IN 47405.
The price of the book is $22.50
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ARL Directory
to Meet Need for Catalog of Electronic Publications
Responding to the library and academic communities' increasing
use of and interest in the burgeoning number of electronic
publications, the Association of Research Libraries will publish
a hard-copy Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and
Scholarly Discussion Lists.
Although many journals, newsletters, and scholarly lists may be
accessed free of charge through Bitnet, Internet, and affiliated
academic networks, it is not always a simple chore to find out
what is available. The Directory is a compilation of entries for
over 500 scholarly lists, about 30 journals, over 60 newsletters,
and 15 "other" titles including some newsletter-digests. The
directory gives specific instructions for access to
each publication. The objective is to assist the user in finding
relevant publications and connecting to them quickly, even if
not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems.
Content editor of the journals/newsletters section is Michael
Strangelove, Network Research Facilitator, University of Ottawa.
Editor of the scholarly discussion lists/interest groups is Diane
Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries. The printed ARL
directory is derived from widely accessible networked files
maintained by Strangelove and Kovacs. The directory will point
tothese as the principal, continuously updated, and
free-of-charge sources for accessing such materials.
The publication will be available to ARL member libraries for
$10 and to non-members for $20 (add $5 postage per directory for
foreign addresses). Orders of 6 or more copies receive a 10%
discount. Updated editions are planned.
The following order form is provided for your convenience.
Feel free to print it and attach it to your check or money order,
payable to ARL. U.S. Dollars only. ALL ORDERS MUST BE PREPAID.
Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
Association of Research Libraries
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036 USA
Name____________________________________________
Address___________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
Number of Copies _________ Amount Enclosed _____________
For Further Information Contact:
Ann Okerson
ARLHQ@UMDC.Bitnet
(202) 232-2466 (voice)
(202) 462-7849 (fax)
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The _Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters_
is now available from the Contex-L fileserver and consists of two
files. These may be obtained by sending the commands:
Tell Listserv at UOttawa Get EJournl1 Directry
Tell Listserv at UOttawa Get EJournl2 Directry
The Directory documents over 26 e-journals and 63 e-newsletters.
Special thanks to Ann Okerson at the Association of Research
Libraries for her support and guidance in this project.
This Directory, along with Diane Kovacs compilation, _Directories
of Academic E-Mail Conferences_ is also now available in print
and on diskette (Dos WordPerfect and MacWord) from:
Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
Association of Research Libraries
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036 USA
ARLHQ@UMDC.Bitnet
(202) 232-2466 (voice)
(202) 462-7849 (fax)
Michael Strangelove
Department of Religious Studies
University of Ottawa
<441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
<441495@UOTTAWA>
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION INQUIRY
The _Journal of Communication Inquiry_ is currently seeking
manuscripts that emphasize interdisciplinary inquiry into
communication and mass communication phenomena within cultural
and historical perspectives. Such perspectives imply that an
understanding of these phenomena cannot arise solely out of a
narrowly focused analysis.
Thus, manuscripts should emphasize philosophical, evaluative,
empirical, legal, historical, and/or critical inquiry into
relationships between mass communication and society across time
and culture.
The journal also invites contributions of articles, book
reviews and review articles from all scholars.
Submission deadline: November 1, 1991 (see details below)
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Cultural Materialism: Essays on Culture as a Practice
This theme issue of the journal will address communication
found in newspapers, advertisements, novels, visual arts, music,
etc., as cultural practices--recorded communication of a
particular place and time, rather than as individual
decontextualized artifacts.
Papers submitted for this issue should include a consideration
of the overt and covert relations between cultural practices, and
the political, social, ideological, and economic system in which
they exist.
Submission deadline: January 15, 1992.
Submit three copies of your paper to the address below.
Maximum length is 7000 words, including notes and references.
Manuscripts should have a detachable title page listing the
author's name, address and phone number. The title--but not the
identification of the author--should also appear on the first
page. Other than on the first page, the author's name should not
appear anywhere in the manuscript.
The journal style is outlined in "Parenthetical References and
Reference Lists," in Kate L. Turabian, _A_Manual for Writers_,
5th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 111-9.
Endnotes (used for explanatory purposes only) should be held to a
minimum. Similar citation styles (such as APA) and other styles
in earlier editions of Turabian or of this journal are not
acceptable. THE AUTHOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING HER OR HIS WORK
CONFORM TO STYLE REQUIREMENTS.
Please direct queries, subscriptions, requests for previous
issues, and all manuscripts to:
Editor
_Journal of Communication Inquiry_
205 Communication Center
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242 (319) 335-5821
Recent issues:
10:1 MTV
10:2 Stuart Hall
10:3 General Issue: Texts and Representations
11:1 The Feminist Issue
11:2 Ideology Around the Dial
12:1 Cultural Studies in South Africa: A Formal Attempt
at Praxis
12:2 History, Historiography, and Communication:
Critical and Cultural Perspectives
13:1 The Weimar Republic and Popular Culture
13:2 Cultural Studies: Ethnography
14:1 Minority images in Advertising
14:2 Visual Communication
15:1 Freedom of Expression and the First Amendment
15:2 Another Politically UNCorrect Issue
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Announcing _Pynchon Notes_ 24-25
Now Available
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_PYNCHON NOTES_
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Editors
John M. Krafft
Miami University--Hamilton
1601 Peck Boulevard
Hamilton, OH 45011-3399
E-mail: jmkrafft@miavx2.bitnet or jmkrafft@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu
Khachig Tololyan
English Department
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06457-6061
Bernard Duyfhuizen
English Department
University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
E-mail: pnotesbd@uwec.bitnet
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_Pynchon Notes_ is published twice a year, in spring and
fall.
Submissions: The editors welcome submission of manuscripts
either in traditional form or in the form of text files on floppy
disk. Disks may be 5.25" or 3.5"; IBM compatible preferred.
Convenient formats include ASCII, DCA, WordStar 3.3, Microsoft
Word 4, and WordPerfect 4.1 or later. Manuscripts, notes and
queries, and bibliographic information should be addressed to
John M. Krafft.
Subscriptions: $5.00 per single issue or $9.00 per year.
Overseas airmail: $6.50 per single issue or $12.00 per year.
Checks should be made payable to Bernard Duyfhuizen--PN.
Subscriptions and back-issue requests should be addressed to
Bernard Duyfhuizen.
_Pynchon Notes_ is supported in part by the English
Departments of Miami University--Hamilton and the University of
Wisconsin--Eau Claire. ISSN 0278-1891
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Contents of Issue 24-25
The Politics of Doubling in "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna"
Douglas Keesey 5
The Rats of God: Pynchon, Joyce, Beckett,
and the Carnivalization of Religion
M. Keith Booker 21
The Double Bind of Metafiction: Implicating Narrative
in _The Crying of Lot 49_ and _Travesty_
Vivienne Rundle 31
The American Way and Its Double in _The Crying of Lot 49_
Mark Conroy 45
Strobe's Stimulus
Stuart Moulthrop 71
Oppositional Discourses, Unnatural Practices:
_Gravity's_ History and "The '60s"
Eric Meyer 81
Mindless Pleasures
Mw. Mac Kay 105
_Vineland_ and Dobie Gillis
Rhonda Wilcox 111
Rooney and the Rocketman
Donald F. Larsson 113
Surrealism, Postmodernism, and Roger, Mexico
Michael W. Vella 117
James Bond and _Gravity's Rainbow_: A Possible Connection
Robert L. McLaughlin 121
A Thoughtful Thomas Pynchon
Charles Clerc 125
Pynchon, Joseph Heller, and _V._
David Seed 127
Fractured Mandala: The Inescapable Ambiguities
of _Gravity's Rainbow_ (Review)
N. Katherine Hayles 129
No Mean Accomplishment (Review)
John L. Simons 133
Continuities, Echoes and Associations (Review)
Thomas Schaub 135
The Little Engine That Could (Review)
Steven Weisenburger 139
Jissom on the Reports: A Thoroughly
Post-Modern Pynchon (Review)
Louis Mackey 143
Other Books Received 155
Notes 157
Bibliography (--1991) 159
Contributors 169
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Back Issues
_Pynchon Notes_ has been published since October, 1979.
Although most back issues are now out of print, they are
available in the form of photocopies.
Nos. 1- 4: $1.50 each; Overseas, $ 2.50.
Nos. 5-10: $2.50 each; Overseas, $ 3.50.
Nos. 11-17: $3.00 each; Overseas, $ 4.50.
No. 18-19: $7.00; Overseas, $10.00.
No. 20-21: $7.00; Overseas, $10.00.
No. 22-23: $9.00; Overseas, $12.00.
Khachig Tololyan and Clay Leighton's _Index_ to all the
names, other capitalized nouns, and acronyms in _Gravity's
Rainbow_ is also available.
_Index_: $5.00; Overseas, $6.50.
All checks should be made payable to Bernard Duyfhuizen--PN.
Overseas checks must be payable in US dollars and payable through
an American bank or an American branch of an overseas bank.
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PEOPLE IN THE ONLY U.S. STATE THAT DIDN'T HELP VOTE RONALD
REAGAN INTO OFFICE MAY KNOW SOMETHING THE REST OF THE
COUNTRY DOESN'T.
It's not at all coincidental, we think, that they subscribe to
_Artpaper_, a monthly magazine on art, community, and cultural
activism that Stuart Klawans praised in the TLR and The Nation
called "handsome, witty, interactive." Plain-talking and
guaranteed jargon-free, _Artpaper_ prides itself on publishing
specific, local, and diffident voices from across North America.
Subscriptions are $22/year by check, VISA, or MasterCard. You can
contact us by snail mail (2402 University Avenue W., St. Paul, MN
55114-1701), e-mail (artpaper@ well.sf.ca), hotline (612-887-
1999; then 2869*), or fax (612-922-8709, day/early evening only).
Article queries: J.Z. Grover, Editor.
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MeckJournal Debuts:
New Electronic Journal on the Internet Founded to provide timely
and accurate information about emerging technologies, Meckler
Publishing has always been on the cutting edge. As a book,
journal and newsletter publisher and conference organizer, the
company is dedicated to serving librarians, information end-users
and specialists, and the information industry as a whole on all
aspects of computer-based technology.
This year, the company's twentieth year of operation, Meckler has
committed its resources to becoming the leading provider of print
and electronic information about electronic networking throughout
the world. An electronic publishing division has been
established and through Meckler's link with Princeton
University's JvNCNet it offers a service called MC(2). Currently
featured on the MC(2) electronic system is the complete catalog
of Meckler Information Technology Publishing, full conference
programs for four technology conferences (Virtual Reality, HD
WORLD, Electronic Networking and Publishing '92, and Computers in
Libraries Canada), as well as five-year indexes to two of its
monthly publications. Within the month, 1991 Tables of Contents
for all Meckler technology journals will be mounted. This fall,
Meckler technology books will be offered at the Table of Contents
level. A facsimile order for articles and chapters will be made
available.
MeckJournal, which is available at no charge to interested
parties, is the latest service to be offered to Internet/Bitnet
users. Issues will include an editorial, late breaking news, and
either a forthcoming feature article from a Meckler journal, a
chapter from a forthcoming technology book, or a contribution
from a Guest Editor.
A subscription to MeckJournal may be placed by sending a message
to Meckler@tigger.jvnc.net with the following information in the
body of the text:
Subscribe MeckJournal [Internet or Bitnet address]
Subscribers will automatically receive each monthly issue and
other information as it is published.
Internet/Bitnet users may also access the journal through the
following method:
telnet to: nisc.jvnc.net
at the logon prompt, type: nicol [lower case]
no password is needed
select MC(2) from the preliminary nicol menu
MeckJournal content for the next year is based on the following
schedule--
September: Electronic Networking: Research, Applications, Policy
October: Book Chapter
November: Academic & Library Computing
December: CD-ROM Librarian
January: Computers in Libraries
February: Book Chapter
March: Database Searcher
April: Document Image Automation
May: HD World Review
June: Book Chapter
July: Library Software Review
August: Multimedia Review
September: OCLC Micro
November: Book Chapter
December: Virtual Reality Report
The first issue presents Marian Dalton's essay "Does Anybody Have
a Map?" It will appear in the first issue of Meckler's
Electronic Networking: Research, Application, and Policy
scheduled to debut in mid-October, 1991. The journal is edited
by Dr. Charles McClure (Syracuse University) in association with
Ann Bishop (University of Illinois) and Phillip Doty (University
of Texas/Austin). Joe Ryan of Syracuse serves as Resources
Editor.
We invite suggestions and comments for future issues.
Nancy Melin Nelson
Executive Editor
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Monographic Review
______________________________________
Revista Monografica
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Box 8401 Odessa, TX 79762-0001
EDITORS
JANET PEREZ
Texas Tech University
GENARO J. PEREZ
The University of Texas of
the Permian Basin
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Jose Luis Cano Estelle Irizarry
Madrid, Spain Georgetown University
Manuel Duran Elias Rivers
Yale University SUNY, Stony Brook
David W. Foster Maria A. Salgado
Arizona State University University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Juan Goytisolo
Paris, France Noel Valis
Johns Hopkins University
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
The University of Texas
at Austin
Call for
Papers
Number 8 (1992) of the
MONOGRAPHIC REVIEW/REVISTA MONOGRAFICA will be
devoted to Experimental Fiction By Hispanic Women Writers
Traditional critics have attempted to enclose women's writing
within rather narrowly circumscribed boundaries, much as
patriarchal societies have limited women to enclosed spaces.
Within this context, letters, diaries, and autobiography are
typically "women's genres," along with religious poetry and
romantic love lyrics. Women's fiction is dismissed as
overwhelmingly "domestic" and autobiographical, Volume 8 of
MONOGRAPHIC REVIEW/REVISTA MONOGRAFICA will expose the "phallacy"
that the female text is the author with essays on Hispanic woman
writer's experimentation, aesthetic innovation, and vanguardist
contributions.
Papers of twelve to fifteen pages
should be submitted before 31 August 1992 to:
Genaro J. Perez, Editor
Monographic Review
Department of Spanish
University of Texas/Permian Basin
Odessa, Texas 79762-0001
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"A NEW, VERY NEW IDEA OF 'AUFKLARUNG'"?
International Symposium at the University for Humanist Studies,
Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 18-19, 1991
What should be the premises of dialogue and what are the
shared presuppositions in the recent debate between those who
align themselves with the tradition of western neomarxist
Critical Theory (with and without "pragmatic turn") and those who
are inspired by that displacement within philosophy and literary
theory commonly and insufficiently defined as Post-Structuralism?
To discuss these questions, an international symposium will
be organized at the newly founded University for Humanist
Studies. Invited speakers include Geoffrey Bennington, Rosa
Braidotti, Peter Dews, Nancy Fraser, Rodolhe Gasche, Rainer
Nagele, Gianni Vattimo, Elisabeth Weber, Albrecht Wellmer, and
others.
For more information write to:
Prof. Dr. Harry Kunneman
University for Humanist Studies
P.O. Box 797, 3500 AT Utrecht
The Netherlands
fax: 030-340738
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CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS: TELEVISION, VIDEO AND FEMINIST STUDIES
April 3 & 4, 1992 University of Iowa - Iowa City
CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS is the first annual conference on
television, video and feminist studies. It welcomes papers that
foreground questions of sexual and other cultural differences.
Possible areas include feminist perspectives on: TV and lesbian
studies; TV and gay studies; TV and video history; TV and
constructions of ethnicity, race and sexuality; TV, video and
postmodernism; TV and "girl" subcultures; media pedagogy;
international TV; policy and regulation; TV's production of
social knowledge.
250 word proposals are due November 1, 1991 and copies should
be sent to the following two addresses:
Lauren Rabinovitz, Department of Communication Studies;
105 Communication Studies Bldg.; University of Iowa; Iowa City
52242.
Mary Beth Haralovich, Dept. of Media Arts; Modern Language
Bldg; University of Arizona; Tucson, AZ 85721.
The proposals will be selected by the program committee: Julie
D'Acci (University of Wisconsin); Jane Feuer (University of
Pittsburg); Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona); Lauren
Rabinovitz (University of Iowa); Lynn Spiegel (University of
Wisconson).
For further information contact Lauren Rabinovitz
at (319) 355-0579.
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** 15 - 18 December 1991 **
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** San Antonio, Texas **
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** A D V A N C E P R O G R A M **
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BIENVENIDOS A SAN ANTONIO Y HYPERTEXT '91!
Welcome to San Antonio and the third ACM conference on
Hypertext! The conference and program committees have been
hard at work over the last year and a half to bring you this
outstanding conference. The technical program has been
expanded to allow more participation and interaction by all
attendees and La Fiesta de las Luminarias (Festival of
Lights) provides a magical atmosphere along the Paseo del
Rio (River walk) in San Antonio. We have arranged the
conference schedule to allow ample time for attendees to enjoy
this historic city on the banks of the San Antonio River.
Hypertext '91 provides a blend of traditional and innovative
programs. Papers and Panels will explore recent advances in
hypertext technologies. Courses allow leading practitioners
to share their knowledge with the hypertext community.
Posters provide attendees an opportunity to talk one-on-one
with researchers about recent results and on-going work, and
Demonstrations are a forum for first-hand experience with new
systems. The Hypertext '91 Video program will be a
compilation of refereed videos which will be shown
continuously throughout the conference. For 1991, this
traditional core is augmented by Technical Briefings which
will provide in-depth presentations on interesting hypertext
systems.
In addition to this outstanding technical program, the
Hypertext '91 conference will provide several social events
and a unique opportunity to experience beautiful San Antonio
in its holiday splendor.
Bienvenidos a San Antonio! Bienvenidos a Hypertext '91!
For additional information, send email to:
ht91@bush.tamu.edu
or contact:
John J. Leggett, General Chair
Hypertext '91 Conference
Hypertext Research Lab
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843 USA
voice: 409 845-0298
fax: 409 847-8578
email: leggett@bush.tamu.edu
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