Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/09/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1026. Thursday, 8 Feb 1990. (1) Date: 08 Feb 90 16:47 -0330 (24 lines) From: mnewton@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: Humanist Posting (2) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 12:02:30 EST (33 lines) From: Jody_Gilbert@cc.sfu.ca (3) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 90 15:27:50 CST (18 lines) From: Norman Hinton <SSUBIT12@UIUCVMD> Subject: French periodical (4) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 90 22:49 EST (9 lines) From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET Subject: RE: 3.1016 various queries (114) (5) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 90 12:47:15 EST (24 lines) From: "Ken Steele, University of Toronto" <KSTEELE@vm.epas.utoront o.ca> Subject: Red in Tooth and Claw... (6) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 09:56 EST (26 lines) From: <NEUMAN@GUVAX> Subject: Tooth and Claw (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 08 Feb 90 16:47 -0330 From: mnewton@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: Humanist Posting Our college is planning to expand to a four year degree granting institution. We are at present designing degree programs that would lead to a liberal arts/science degree of an interdisciplinary nature. On behalf of those of us here who teach in the humanities I am looking at existing programs in the humanities that would give undergraduates a wide but thorough grounding in a range of subjects that might come under the heading of something like "the Western Cultural Tradition." If you are involved in such a program I would like to hear from you and would be pleased to receive course outlines and calendars. Michael Newton mnewton@mun.bitnet mnewton@kean.ucs.mun.CA Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Memorial University of Newfoundland Corner Brook, Newfoundland, A2H 6P9 Canada. (2) --------------------------------------------------------------43---- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 12:02:30 EST From: Jody_Gilbert@cc.sfu.ca Is anyone out there interested in starting a mailing list on the topic of Thomas Pynchon? With the publication of _Vineland_, I think Pynchon is going to become more popular. I and several of my colleagues, both locally and across the wires, have things we would like to discuss about Pynchon in general and _Vineland_ in particular. The problem here is that our E-mail mavins at Simon Fraser University tell me that we do not have LISTSERV capability, and even if I decided to forward all the messages manually, creating an off-campus mail group is tedious and unreliable if not improbable. So......What I need is some generous Pynchophiliac to volunteer the services of her LISTSERVER and set up a Pynchon mailing list, and then announce it over HUMANIST, ENGLISH, LITERARY, and any other list or E-journal they can think of. Any takers? Jody Gilbert Department of English Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 ID=DOG1@SFU.BITNET (3) --------------------------------------------------------------26---- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 90 15:27:50 CST From: Norman Hinton <SSUBIT12@UIUCVMD> Subject: French periodical I am trying to find Cahier 2 of _Mythes, Croyances et religions dans le monde Anglo-Saxon_ (specifically, an article on Chaucer's Prioress by Yvette Salviati, pp. 13-29 of that issue). Our Int. Library Loan, usually able to find most anything, drew a blank. I tried OCLC and found only 1 holding in all of the U.S.A., at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale----and they have only Cahier 4. The Chaucer article looks very useful for a study I am just starting on the Prioress. If anyone knows of a library in Canada (or elsewhere on this side of the Atlantic) that has the journal, I would be most appre- ciative. (If I could get to Internet, I'd look myself, but while our MIS folks say it can be done, they have been in no hurry to make Internet available to faculty....) Norman Hinton BITNET SSUBIT12 @ UIUCVMD (4,5,6)-----------------------------------------------------------16---- [Thanks to the following for locating the tooth. I preserve only one of the actual replies. --W.M.] Date: Wed, 7 Feb 90 22:49 EST From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET From: Ken Steele <KSTEELE@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA> From: <NEUMAN@GUVAX> Subject: Tooth and Claw Robin Cover asks for the source of the quotation "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Tennyson uses the line in section 56 of "In Memoriam A.H.H." Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law -- Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed -- The poem was written between 1833 and 1850, years before Darwin's Origin of Species (1859). Thanks, Robin, for the opportunity to think about an issue of significance. Mike Neuman Georgetown University