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Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture
http://appositions.blogspot.com/

2009 E-Conference: Dialogues & Exchanges

(writers/readers/texts/fields)

February-March, 2009

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Welcome Message

APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture
http://appositions.blogspot.com/
ISSN: 1946-1992

E-Conference: February-March, 2009

Dialogues & Exchanges

(writers/readers/texts/fields)

On this page you’ll find closing remarks from the 2009 Appositions e-conference. Papers from that event have been removed from the site, but a conference program remains along with any comments that were posted in reply to the papers during February-March, 2009.

You may still view our two special events from the e-conference:

* John Milton E-Variorum:

“When I consider how my light is spent”,

http://appositions.blogspot.com/2009/02/event.html

* Book Reviewing in the Digital Age:

Practice/Politics/Pedagogy,

http://appositions.blogspot.com/2009/02/event-b.html

We hope you’ll visit those events, which will remain open, and offer your questions and statements via the “post a comment” link at the bottom of each document page. All postings will be lightly moderated prior to their appearance.

This e-conference was a free, open-access event organized and hosted by APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture, ISSN: 1946-1992, a peer-reviewed, electronic, independently managed and published journal.

For articles and book reviews published in Volume One of the journal, use the triangles above to open and close the TOC: go to 2008, then May. Click individual titles and then scroll down.

Volume Two of Appositions will be published in May, 2009. All submissions to the journal will undergo our standard peer-review process.

During the period of the e-conference (February 28 until April 6, 2009), the Appositions site received a total of 1,186 visits from 69 countries, including, for example: South Africa (3), France (8), Italy (15), Germany (18), and India (31). Total visits from the top 5 countries representing the greatest frequencies were: Australia (33), Canada (69), Cyprus (79), UK (148), US (630). 17 comments were posted in reply to the papers and events.

If you would like to see a copy of the CFP for the 2009 e-conference, click here:

http://appositions.blogspot.com/2009/02/cfp-2009-dialogues-and-exchanges.html

We hope you will enjoy your visit, and that you’ll share Appositions with your colleagues, friends, and students. If you have questions and/or comments, please let us hear from you.

—The Editors

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Event A: John Milton E-Variorum

John Milton E-Variorum:

“When I consider how my light is spent”

Welcome to Event A at the Appositions 2009 conference, where we invite your annotations, questions, comments, and collaborative postings on Milton’s sonnet, “When I consider how my light is spent.”

If you would like to participate in this E-Variorum, simply add your contribution here via the “post a comment” link at the bottom of this page.
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“When I consider how my light is spent,” Poems, &c. upon several occasions by Mr. John Milton; both English and Latin, &c.; composed at several times; with a small tractate of education to Mr. Hartlib (London: Printed for Tho. Dring, 1673), p. 59.

In Poems (1673) the text appears numbered as XVI; however, scholars customarily refer to this poem as sonnet XIX, which reflects a chronological placement within the complete arc of all of Milton’s sonnets.
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XVI.

When I consider how my light is spent,
E’re half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg’d with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, least he returning chide,
Doth God exact day-labour, light deny’d,
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
Either man’s work or his own gifts, who best
Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o’re Land and Ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and waite.
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Source: Early English Books Online. Wing / 643:01. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 165 pp.

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Eleni Pilla: "Negotiating Romeo and Juliet"

Eleni Pilla
Northern Arizona University

Negotiating Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on the Big-Screen in Sound: George Cukor’s Romeo and Juliet (1936)

Jeremy Fiebig: "Everything New is Old Again"

Jeremy Fiebig
Waldorf College

Everything New is Old Again, or Practical Pedantry: Audience Inductive Techniques on the Stage

Ian MacInnes: "Some Gothicq barbarous hand"

Ian MacInnes
Albion College

“Some Gothicq barbarous hand”: Poetry and foreign policy in Samuel Daniel’s “Epistle to Prince Henry”

Micah Donohue: "Cities Nowhere but in Words"

Micah Donohue
New Mexico State University

Cities Nowhere but in Words: Plato’s Republic and Thomas More’s Utopia

Kathleen A. Ahearn: "How to Cry up Liberty"

Kathleen A. Ahearn
University of Denver

How to “Cry up Liberty”: Mary Astell in Dialogue with Female Dissenters

Event B: Book Reviewing in the Digital Age

Book Reviewing in the Digital Age:

Practice/Politics/Pedagogy

Welcome to Event B at the Appositions 2009 conference, a forum for conversation about the topic of book reviewing in the digital age: practice/politics/pedagogy.

If you would like to participate, simply add your contribution here via the “post a comment” link at the bottom of this page.

A lively recent discussion in the public domain on the Milton-L listserv suggests that the subject of book reviewing in the field of Renaissance and early modern literary and cultural studies could benefit from renewed examination with regard to administrative and editorial best-practices, readerly and writerly concerns, professional development matters, and scholarly standards. To view the Milton-L December, 2008 Archives by thread, look for consecutive postings with “soliciting of reviews” and other related tags.

Administrative and editorial policies vary considerably from journal to journal (in print media) when it comes to how book reviews are managed from inquiry to process to production. Some journals (including RES) routinely send their book reviews out for peer-review; others (such as RQ) commission reviews; while other journals (like RELARTS) openly invite proposals for books to be reviewed.

A small number of those postings to Milton-L defended a conservative model: that, in most cases, bad books should be ignored; that reviews ought to be written by an inner-circle of established scholars; and that solicited book reviews should not be subject to peer-review.

How and why might electronic journals in the field solicit, evaluate, and produce book reviews of value? How and why might e-journals promote book reviews as vehicles for building new communities that either sustain or subvert the status quo?

We invite your comments, questions and statements toward a collaborative document on editorial and scholarly best practices for book reviewing in the digital age.

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CFP 2009: Dialogues and Exchanges

APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culturehttp://appositions.blogspot.com/

Volume Two: Dialogues & Exchanges

(writers/readers/texts/fields)
Call for Abstracts & Articles: APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture, http://appositions.blogspot.com/, seeks new work addressing the theme of dialogues & exchanges (writers/readers/texts/fields). How and why do literary texts emerge and change within and against fields of cultural production? Or, alternately: how and why do social forces or technologies shape distinctive modes and forms of literary art? Or, antithetically: how and why do literary works celebrate or challenge cultural narratives? Beyond such chiastic formulations, what other factors (e.g. audience, gender, identity, occasion, politics) also contribute to the dialogues & exchanges that literary texts invite and receive? Comparative, interdisciplinary, and trans-historical approaches are encouraged. APPOSITIONS is an electronic, peer-reviewed, international, annual conference and digital journal for studies in Renaissance/early modern literature and culture. APPOSITIONS is an open-access, independently managed conference and journal. ISSN forthcoming.

Conference Abstracts (200-words): December, 2008
Conference Proposals (500-words): January, 2009
E-Conference: February-March, 2009
Manuscripts (articles): November, 2008-April, 2009
Journal Publication: May, 2009

Guidelines: APPOSITIONS seeks submissions simultaneously on both tracks: abstracts and proposals for the e-conference; and articles for Volume Two of the journal. Selected proposals/presentations from the e-conference will be solicited as completed articles for submission and review. Article manuscripts may also be submitted separately from the e-conference.

Electronic Submissions: showard [at] du.edu. Submissions should be attached as a single .doc, .rtf, .pdf or .txt file. Visuals should be attached individually as .jpg, .gif or .bmp files. Please include the words “Appositions Submission” in the subject line of your message.

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