5.0740 Rs: Women Writers List; Odyssey Criticism (3/59)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 3 Mar 1992 19:23:23 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0740. Tuesday, 3 Mar 1992.


(1) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 17:53:06 PST (35 lines)
From: Diane_L._Olsen.osbu_north@xerox.com
Subject: Re: E-Mail list for Women Writers to 1850?

(2) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 18:52 EST (11 lines)
From: Mary_Whitlock_BLUNDELL@umail.umd.edu (mb169)
Subject: Re: 5.0730 Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey

(3) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1992 16:39 MST (13 lines)
From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: 5.0730 Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey

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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 17:53:06 PST
From: Diane_L._Olsen.osbu_north@xerox.com
Subject: Re: E-Mail list for Women Writers to 1850?

Sometimes you find what you're looking for right in your own back yard.

It turns out that the very list I hoped to find not only exists but is owned by
HUMANIST editor Elaine Brennan of Brown University! It is called WWP-L, and
you sign up by sending the message "sub WWP-L your-full-name" to
LISTSERV@brownvm.brown.edu (that's LISTSERV@brownvm if you speak BITNET).

Here are two paragraphs lifted from the WWP-L welcome message [Forwarded with
permission]:

The list, as I see it, has a two-fold purpose: to discuss specific
activities of the Women Writers Project and to keep you informed
about the particular texts that we have available, and to focus
more generally on issues of teaching and research with respect to texts
by women in English during the period from approximately 1350 through
approximately 1850.

The WWP was conceived of, in part, as a resource for scholars and
teachers and students interested in women's writings. Please help
us make it a reality.

[Note: I don't know if it's clear from the excerpts I chose to include above,
but WWP-L is intended as a forum for *discussion* as well as dissemination of
information.]

Hope to see you on WWP-L!

Diane L. Olsen
Xerox Corporation
Palo Alto, CA
dolsen.osbu_north@xerox.com OR olsen@csli.stanford.edu
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 18:52 EST
From: Mary_Whitlock_BLUNDELL@umail.umd.edu (mb169)
Subject: Re: 5.0730 Rs: Alien Sex; Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey (3/30)

For feminist criticism of the Odyssey, try:

J.J. Winkler, Penelope's Cunning and Homer's, in The Constraints of Desire
(Routledge 1990)

This will get you started and has plenty of further refs in the bibliography.

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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1992 16:39 MST
From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: 5.0730 Rs: Alien Sex; Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey (3/30)

_The Authoress of the Odyssey_ was in fact by Samuel Butler, who is reported
by that authentic feminist Jane Ellen Harrison to have tried its thesis out
on her at tiresome length in the GB Hotel in Athens just after the turn of
the century; she remained unconvinced. For more recent discussions by femin-
ist and female critics one might turn to Marilyn Arthur Katz, _Penelope's
Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the Odyssey_, Princeton 1991, or to
Jenny Strauss Clay's slightly older _Anger of Athena_; and there is a brand
new masculinist-Jungian book by Thomas van Nortwick, _Somewhere I Have Never
Been_, which must be