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---------------------------------12038120369096 Content-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET="iso-8859-1" My apolgies if the announcement below is a duplication. JW > 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. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Early Modern Literary Studies would like to thank the Oxford Text > Archive for providing the text of the Utopia used in this seminar. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > Registering for the Utopia Virtual Seminar: > > The seminar will begin on October 25, 1995. > > Any inquiries should be directed to Luc Borot at > [log in to unmask] > > Applicants to the Utopia seminar must e-mail the following > information to [log in to unmask]: > > * 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 ---------------------------------12038120369096--