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litsci-l-digest      Thursday, December 12 2002      Volume 01 : Number
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In this issue:

     Call for Participants - ASLE 2003 Roundtable
     Journal Contents - Vol 16 "Nineteenth Century Studies"

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:27:58 -0600
From: Michael Bryson 
Subject: Call for Participants - ASLE 2003 Roundtable

Call for Participants
Roundtable for ASLE 2003 in Boston

EXPLORING SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ECOCRITICISM:  How do we Reconcile
the
Worldview of Science Literature with Spiritual, Intuitive, Emotional
Responses to the Earth?

The range of literature studied by ASLE scholars includes works grounded
in
science (such as David Quammen's _Song of the Dodo_) and works that
explore
spiritual aspects of the relationship between humans and the earth (such
as
Linda Hogan's _Solar Storms_ or Kathleen Norris' _Dakota_ ).  Our
roundtable
- -- which we envision as a lively discussion rather than any formal
reading
of pre-written papers -- will look at the intersection between these two
different approaches and explore some of the questions below, as well as
any
you would like to add.

o How does the ecocritic reconcile the scientific mindset that informs
nature writing with creative approaches that rely on intuition,
language,
and spiritual insight?
o How can science and literature studies benefit from an intersection
with
ecocriticism -- and how can ecocriticism benefit from the challenges and
rigor of a scientific approach?
o Can the field of ecocriticism successfully blur the lines between hard
science and the humanities to incorporate approaches from opposite ends
of
the academy?
o How is the rational, male-dominated field of western science
challenged by
such approaches as ecofeminism?
o What parallels exist between literary representations of nature and
practices of science in western culture?
o Can a poet and a scientist work together to raise ecological awareness
in
the classroom?
o How does literature, poetry, language, and spiritual insight challenge
the
way that science is done?
o Can web pages and museum exhibits that serve to educate the public
successfully incorporate both science and poetry to raise ecological
awareness?
o Can ecocriticism be informed by both scientific ecological knowledge
(rational, linear, quantifiable) and traditional ecological knowledge --
that is, the stories passed down by indigenous people with an oral
tradition?
o How do we balance -- in our teaching of literature, our writing, our
activism -- scientific knowledge of the physical world with poetry,
passion,
and instinct?

We are hoping to have a list of participants by the end of December.
Thereafter, we will submit a revised roundtable proposal to the
conference
organizers (deadline of Jan. 31, 2003).  Pending acceptance, our plan is
to
start an online discussion sometime early spring -- which will generate
themes and discussion questions for our roundtable in Boston.

If interested in participating, please send your contact information
(including email, phone, mailing address, and institution) and a brief
(2-3
paragraph), informal position statement on any of the above or related
questions to Janine DeBaise and Mike Bryson.

**DEADLINE:  Dec. 31, 2002**

Reply to:  jdebaise@esmns.net, mbryson@roosevelt.edu
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:00:32 -0500
From: Wayne Miller 
Subject: Journal Contents - Vol 16 "Nineteenth Century Studies"

"Nineteenth Century Studies," the interdisciplinary journal of the
Nineteenth Century Studies Association, announces the contents of volume
16:

Feature Essays:

- --Gina Marlene Dorre, "Handling the 'Iron Horse': Dickens, Travel, and
Derailed Masculinity in 'The Pickwick Papers'"

- --Christine Kenyon Jones, "'Some World's-Wonder in Chapel or Crypt':
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Disability"

- --Jan Marsh, "From Slave Cabin to Windsor Castle: Josiah Henson and
'Uncle
Tom' in Britain"

- --Hsuan Hsu, "War, Ekphrasis, and Elliptical Form in Melville's
'Battle
Pieces'"

- --Thomas Grey, "Wagner the Degenerate: Fin de Siecle Cultural
'Pathology'
and the Anxiety of Modernism"

Review Essays:

- --Tracy Davis, "Theater, but Wherefore Politics?"

- --Elizabeth Winston, "Remapping and Reframing the Victorian Novel"

- --Eleanor Courtemanche, "Bread, Roses, and Reason: or, Can Victorian
Cultural Criticism Reform Political Economy?"

- --Susan Casteras, "Forging Identities in Nineteenth-Century Art"

- --Suzanne Donahue, "Making Faces: Changing Modes of Representation in
Nineteenth-Century Portraiture"

- --Julie English Early, "Putting Women in Their (Rightful) Place"

Exhibitions Review:

- --Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes, "Visionaries, Realists, and Reformers:
Exploring
the Creative Impulse in Nineteenth-Century Art"

Electronic Resources Reviews:

- --Stephen Hebron, "Putting Museum Collections On-Line: A Case Study"

- --Sally Hubbard, "Mexico: From Empire to Revolution"

- --Lawrence Woof, "Digital Audio Tours"

For subscription and single-issue inquiries, please email ncs@selu.edu
or
the Editor, David Hanson, at dhanson@selu.edu, or see our website at
www.selu.edu/ncs.

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