[1] From: Jeff Miller <jdmiller@unixg.ubc.ca> (52)
Subject: Interactive EMLS: Utopia Seminar (fwd)
[2] From: stotosy@pop.srv.ualberta.ca (20)
Subject: U of Alberta Research Institute for Comp Lit
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 12:24:04 -0800
From: Jeff Miller <jdmiller@unixg.ubc.ca>
Subject: Interactive EMLS: Utopia Seminar (fwd)
This virtual seminar, sponsored by Interactive Early Modern Literary
Studies, will concentrate on Thomas More's Utopia as political
literature, foremostly on the politics and poetics of the utopian
form; it is integrated with a 'liveware' or 'classware' seminar (to
use a phrase coined by the Augustinian scholar and pioneer in
electronic teaching, James O'Donnell) run concurrently by Luc Borot
(Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise,
Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France).
The seminar's purpose is to enable students and scholars the world
over to read and discuss the text slowly -- an approach which is
intended to discourage the practice of jumping to conclusions. As a
group, we shall have to agree that we understand one passage, as it
stands alone or in the context of the whole work, before we move on
to the next. This may involve acknowledging the difficulties of a
particular section or sections, or exploring a number of hypotheses.
We shall refer to the Latin text and to available translations, the
Latin text being the ultimate authority.
More's Utopia is the eponymous text of a genre that had begun long
before, perhaps even before Plato. The astounding genesis of the
Utopia attests to the vitality of projects which are both aesthetic
and philosophical, and may lead us to reflect on the modes of
expression of a political philosophy. What is the relationship
between the text's political content and its literary form? Are
there utopias or fictionalised presentations of theories in other
philosophical fields? Questions such as these will inevitably appeal
to the broadest range of academic disciplines.
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Early Modern Literary Studies would like to thank the Oxford Text
Archive for providing the text of the Utopia used in this seminar.
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Early Modern Literary Studies and Interactive EMLS can be found on the
World Wide Web at http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlshome.html
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Registering for the Utopia Virtual Seminar:
The seminar will begin on October 25, 1995.
Any inquiries should be directed to Luc Borot at
lb@alor.univ-montp3.fr.
Applicants to the Utopia seminar must e-mail the following
information to lb@alor.univ-montp3.fr:
* your name and institution,
* your e-mail address,
* your status: graduate student, faculty, or other (please
specify),
* your reading and writing level in English, French and Latin
(The seminars will be conducted primarily in English, though a
reading knowledge of other languages may prove useful for
critical analysis of the texts.)
You will be notified of your acceptance in the seminar as soon as
possible.
Ray Siemens
Joanne Woolway
EMLS
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:38:16 -0400
From: stotosy@pop.srv.ualberta.ca follows.
The University of Alberta Research Institute for Comparative Literature at
http://www.ualberta.ca/ARTS/ricl.html has, among others, the following
material which may be useful for scholars involved in the study of literature:
1) An International Directory of Comparatists
2) "Towards a Cumulative Bibliography of Comparative Literature"
3) A Cumulative Bibliography of Works in the Systemic and Empirical Approach
to Literature WITH A CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 5TH BIANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF LITERATURE, BANFF, ALBERTA,
CANADA (ROCKY MOUNTAINS), AUGUST 21-26, 1996.
With my best regards,
Steven TOTOSY de ZEPETNEK Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature
Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Studies
Associate Editor, CRCL/RCLC; Associate Director, RICL
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., T6G 2E6
Ph.: 403-492-4776; Fax: 403-492-5662; Home Ph.: 403-438-6486
E-mail: stotosy@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca