5.0703 Qs: (various) (6/104)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 19 Feb 1992 21:42:23 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0703. Wednesday, 19 Feb 1992.

(1) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1992 15:46:16 -0700 (18 lines)
From: <emmett@Augustana.AB.CA>
Subject: feminist interpretations of _Odyssey_

(2) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 13:47:03 +0000 (17 lines)
From: Pierce@hf.uib.no
Subject: Latin Broadcast

(3) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 19:16:42 EST (10 lines)
From: "John M. Unsworth" <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: Bukowski

(4) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 05:15:54 MET (18 lines)
From: qxkemppai@SAMPO.HUT.FI
Subject: Ervand Manarjan

(5) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 09:12 MET (23 lines)
From: Ronald de Rooy <DEROOY@ALF.LET.UVA.NL>
Subject: preference model

(6) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 20:34 CST (18 lines)
From: Michael Hancher <MH@UMNACVX.BITNET>
Subject: query re monkeys at typewriters

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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1992 15:46:16 -0700
From: <emmett@Augustana.AB.CA>
Subject: feminist interpretations of _Odyssey_

A colleague is interested in help identifying feminist critiques of
Homer's _Odyssey._ Can anyone on this list help?

Thanks. Please address postings to:


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Ross B. Emmett
Augustana University College
Camrose, Alberta
T4V 2R3 CANADA
(403) 679-1517 VOICE Emmett@Augustana.AB.CA
(403) 679-1129 FAX OR emmett@camrose.uucp
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 13:47:03 +0000
From: Pierce@hf.uib.no
Subject: Latin Broadcast

We have learned that the Finnish Broadcasting Company broadcasts
regular news bulletins in Latin (The European Sept. 27-29, 1991), and
would much appreciate details on transmission times and wave
length.

We have also seen it mentioned in a recent Newsweek.

Richard Holton Pierce
Department of Classics
University of Bergen
Sydnesplass 9
N-5007 Bergen, NORWAY

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 19:16:42 EST
From: "John M. Unsworth" <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: Bukowski

On behalf of a graduate student I'm working with, I'd like to ask whether
anyone out there can suggest secondary sources on Charles Bukowski. At
first glance, there doesn't seem to be a lot of Bukowski criticism.
Thanks in advance, and feel free to reply directly to me.

John Unsworth
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 05:15:54 MET
From: qxkemppai@SAMPO.HUT.FI
Subject: Ervand Manarjan


Dear Humanists,
I would be very happy if someone could inform me on the origin of a play
performed by "The Kukko & K{{rme Theatre" in Finland. The title
is "The Invincible Rooster" and the script is adapted from a text in Polish
with the title "Niezwyciezony Kogut". The name of the author given in the
Polish text is Ervand Manarjan. This writer is not well known in Finland or
Poland, could possibly be Armenian, judging from the name. The Polish text
is a translation from another language, we do not know which.
If anyone knows more about the author or the play, please enlighten me, and
other humanists as well if there is enough substance in the subject.
Regards
Seppo Kemppainen <QXKEMPPAI@SAMPO.HUT.FI>

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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 09:12 MET
From: Ronald de Rooy <DEROOY@ALF.LET.UVA.NL>
Subject: preference model

Could someone please indicate to me studies or articles dealing with the
application of Ray Jackendoff's "preference rule system" in the field of
literary studies? A while ago I became interested in this subject after
reading a stimulating book by a theoretical linguist, Ellen Schauber,
and a literary theorist, Ellen Spolsky, entitled "The Bounds of
Interpretation. Linguistic Theory and Literary Text" (Stanford UP
1986). In this study a preference model is used to describe a reader's
competence to interpret literary texts. I would like to know if there
have been any further developments.

(If you wish, you can respond directly to me)
Many thanks,
Ronald de Rooy
Department of Italian, University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
[DEROOY@ALF.LET.UVA.NL]

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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 20:34 CST
From: Michael Hancher <MH@UMNACVX.BITNET>
Subject: query re monkeys at typewriters

"If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it
_might_ happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If
an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they _might_
write all the books in the British Museum." A. S. Eddington
called this "a rather classical illustration" when he introduced
it into his discussion of entropy in _The Nature of the Physical
World_, Gifford Lectures 1927 (New York: Macmillan; Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1931), 72. The general concept of
generating a text by randomly scattering letters is as old as
Cicero (_De Natura Deorum_ 2.37). But was the monkeys-at-
typewriters example a "classical" one by 1927? Or did Eddington
invent it?

Michael Hancher / English / University of Minnesota