7.0294 E-Texts: CDs; Goethe; Thoreau; Irish; Dante; Treaties; Le

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 13 Nov 1993 20:26:32 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0294. Saturday, 13 Nov 1993.


(1) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 17:45:38 +0000 (GMT) (37 lines)
From: Ian Budden <I.D.Budden@sussex.ac.uk>
Subject: Etext CDROMs

(2) Date: Thu, 11 NOV 93 12:04:20 GMT (21 lines)
From: UHAA017@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK
Subject: Electronic Dante

(3) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 14:26:51 -0500 (EST) (40 lines)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: source for Le Jongleur?

(4) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 16:51:48 EST (8 lines)
From: Dr Karl Signell <SIGNELL@UMDD>
Subject: Hackney's Press Club speech

(5) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 93 15:22:36 RSA (17 lines)
From: chris <120MEIS@witsvma.wits.ac.za>
Subject: Goethe for PC DOS

(6) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 11:11:06 +22311841 (CST) (25 lines)
From: jbravo@condor.dpi.udec.cl (Julio Bravo Cortes-Monroy)
Subject: Maastricht in French or Spanish?

(7) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1993 10:24:08 -0800 (16 lines)
From: tbrunner@orion.oac.uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner)
Subject: Thoreau

(8) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 93 09:42:34 CST (18 lines)
From: Glenn Everett <IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET>
Subject: Irish Lit. Anthologies

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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 17:45:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: Ian Budden <I.D.Budden@sussex.ac.uk>
Subject: Etext CDROMs

(I'm sending this to several lists; apologies for repetition.)

Has anyone any experience of using the following CD-ROMs (they contain
literary texts)? How satisfactory are the selections? How easy are they
to network? Is it possible (both in practical terms and in terms of
copyright restrictions) to download substantial portions of text of
them? I have some information about one or two of them, but I'd be very
grateful for accounts of the experience of end-users.

Complete Bookshop (from Unica, UK)
Desktop Bookshop (from Unica, UK)
Great Literature (don't know producer, but distributed in UK by Unica)
Greatest Books Collection ( " " " " )
Library of the Future, Vols. 1 and 2 (from World Library; distributed
by DAK Industries in U.S.A. and Unica in U.K.)

Thanks very much in anticipation ...

Ian Budden,
Information Services,
The Library,
University of Sussex,
Brighton,
United Kingdom,
BN1 9QL

email: I.D.BUDDEN@SUSSEX.AC.UK (INTERNET)
I.D.BUDDEN@UK.AC.SUSSEX (JANET)

phone: 0273 678440
fax: 0273 678441


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Date: Thu, 11 NOV 93 12:04:20 GMT
From: UHAA017@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK
Subject: Electronic Dante

Dear Humanist,

A colleague is trying to locate electronic versions of the works of Dante.
Initially the Vita Nuova and the Inferno, but possibly later other works.
Does anyone know of a possible source for this?

Thanks in advance,

Catherine Harbor,
Computer Centre
Royal Holloway
University of London,
Egham
Surrey TW20 0EX.

'phone: 0784 443165
e-mail: C.Harbor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 14:26:51 -0500 (EST)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: source for Le Jongleur?

A retired colleague has sent me the following query, asking that it be
passed on to Humanist. If you have clues, would you please send them
directly to Norman Zacour at the address below?

Thanks very much.

W. McCarty
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> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 08:37:01 EST
> From: Norman Zacour <ZACOURN@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
> Subject: My Lady's Juggler
>
>
> ....I am looking for the source of Anatole France's
> well known short story, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame. I read the original
> story many years ago - I think it was in a collection of medieval
> Exempla - but cannot for the life of me remember where. I've tried
> Caesarius of Heisterbach and Jacques de Vitry without success,
> but have no other obvious sources near at hand. You probably
> know the story, of a poor jongleur - tumbler or acrobat - who had no
> gift to offer the virgin, so crept into the church late at night and
> went through his entire tumbling repertoire before her statue, secretly
> observed by a couple of the monks, who were scandalized by his
> sacrilegious presumption. He finally stopped, exhausted and sweating,
> whereupon the statue stepped down and wiped his brow with the hem of her
> skirt. Originally told as a straight miracle story, it received a subtly
> ironic treatment by Anatole France, although nowadays it is treated as a
> piece of moral uplift.
>


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Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities
University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 16:51:48 EST
From: Dr Karl Signell <SIGNELL@UMDD>
Subject: Hackney's Press Club speech

Has NEH Chairman Hackney's speech yesterday at the National Press
Club been made available electronically? Hackney says he's found
funding for a series of electronic town meetings on the national
identity, according to today's Washington Post.
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 93 15:22:36 RSA
From: chris <120MEIS@witsvma.wits.ac.za>
Subject: Goethe for PC DOS

Dear Elaine
could you kindly distribute the following query? Thanks a lot,
Regards - Chris
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can someone please help with information on machine readable editions
(stiffy/floppy/CD/ or ftp) of J W Goethe's works, in particular the
"Unterhaltungen Deutscher Ausgewanderten"? I know that there's an
edition on stiffieemeyer publ., but that's a complete edition
i.e. "Hamburger Ausgabe") at a horrendous price. Also, if anybody has
already used such material on a PC I'd be grateful for some hints
regarding reliability, problems experienced, software used etc..
(I'm using a platform.) Thanks a lot,
Chris
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 11:11:06 +22311841 (CST)
From: jbravo@condor.dpi.udec.cl (Julio Bravo Cortes-Monroy)
Subject: Maastricht in French or Spanish?

Dear Mrs Brennan and Mr. Renear:

I'm a student in law from Chile, South America.
Recently I found a Maastricht Treaty Text in English Language at
Internet.
There are any version of this treaty in French or Spanish Language
accesible by FTP or Gopher??

Please, that is very important for us, because we are studying
the interpretation's troubles about different languages in this treaty.

Thanks in advance

PS: Please, excuse me my poor english, but it is not my native language.

--
Julio Andres Bravo Cortes-Monroy                jbravo@condor.dpi.udec.cl
Facultad de Ciencias Juridicas y Sociales       phone(home):56-41-372920
Universidad de Concepcion                       fax (univer):56-41-259136
CHILE - South America           Postal Address: Casilla 796 - Concepcion
                                                CHILE
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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1993 10:24:08 -0800
From: tbrunner@orion.oac.uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner)
Subject: Thoreau
 
       I am interested in finding out whether there are any electronic
materials related to Thoreau's life and works available.
 
Ted Brunner
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Date:        Wed, 03 Nov 93 09:42:34 CST
From:        Glenn Everett <IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET>
Subject: Irish Lit. Anthologies
 
Next semester I have the opportunity to teach an upper-level
undergraduate course in Irish literature from 1890 to the present.  I
plan on having the students buy Yeats's Collected Poems and the new
corrected-text _Ulysses_, but I would like to find an anthology of
poems, plays, and stories, from Lady Gregory and Somerville and Ross to
Seamus Heaney and Edna O'Brien.  Can anyone recommend one or two?  Any
suggestions about other lists on which I might post this query?
 
Please send replies to me off-line, at the address below.
 
Glenn Everett
English Department
University of Tennessee at Martin
ivaa@utmartn.bitnet