3.355 old-spelling texts? "nuclear fiction"? (54)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Mon, 14 Aug 89 20:27:16 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 355. Monday, 14 Aug 1989.
(1) Date: 14 August 1989, 08:58:48 EDT (15 lines)
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: "old-spelling" texts
(2) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 16:15:00 EDT (19 lines)
From: grgo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Greg Goode)
Subject: "Nuclear Fiction" query
(1) --------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 14 August 1989, 08:58:48 EDT
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: "old-spelling" texts
Subject: "old-spelling" texts
May I ask the general readership of Humanist to respond to the question
that editors of "standard" works have to ask themselves: should the
works of a writer of a remote time, written in his or her vernacular
language, be reproduced for a modern writer in a form as close to the
"author's intentions" as possible, or should the author's text be
modernized in order to reach a larger audience? I am talking about
authors as widely ranged as William James, Shakespeare, Goethe, Villon,
Hawthorne. My question to the general readership of Humanist is "Which
would you rather read, and why?" and my question to editors or
specialized readers is "Which would you rather produce, and why?"
Roy Flannagan
(2) --------------------------------------------------------------23----
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 16:15:00 EDT
From: grgo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Greg Goode)
Subject: "Nuclear Fiction" query
I have a question about nuclear fiction. Because of the spate of
80's nuclear fiction, I've been wondering when the FIRST such
novel or short story was published.
What do I mean by nuclear fiction? In this case, it would be the
Post-apocolyptic story -- after the WWIII holocaust, the survivors
struggle with the problems unique to this new state of the world:
the collapse of society, rampant injuries, disease, fallout, human
moral anarchy, depression, and the possibility of renewed hope and
rebuilt civilization.
Does anyone know when the first story of this type was published?
Reply by E-Mail directly to the undersigned.
--Greg Goode