From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Wed May 27 10:23:27 2015 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:23:27 -0700 Subject: [ilds] Fwd: [BAMS] Registration now open for 'There and back again': An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emma Zimmerman Date: 27 May 2015 at 09:38 Subject: [BAMS] Registration now open for 'There and back again': An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel To: BAMS at jiscmail.ac.uk Apologies for any cross-posting! The Landscape, Space, Place Research Group at the University of Nottingham is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its ninth annual postgraduate workshop. *?There and back again?: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel* Monday 22nd June 2015 University of Nottingham *Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)* This one-day interdisciplinary workshop aims to emphasise and explore the richness of travel in its multivalent forms, from antiquity to modernity and beyond. We will consider travel in relation to social, political, cultural, and environmental forces, as we ask how it is interpreted across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Papers for the day will cover the following themes: ? Home & Displacement ? Exploration ? Wandering ? Border Crossings ? Encountering the Supernatural ? Sites of Travel ? Modes, (E)Motion & Perception ? Travel in Print *Further details can be found in the attached programme and poster.* All are welcome to attend this free event, although places are limited. To book your place, please email by* Monday 15th June: * *lsp.pgworkshop at nottingham.ac.uk* Organising Committee: Alexander Harby, Alice Insley, Hollie Johnson, Mark Lambert, Xiaofan Xu & Emma Zimmerman *http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/lsprg/events/travel-workshop-2015.aspx* -------------------------------------------------- Emma Zimmerman PhD Researcher Room C23 Trent Building School of English University of Nottingham NG7 2RD http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/emma.zimmerman Landscape, Space, Place Reading Group Coordinator LSP homepage: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/lsprg/index.aspx This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. 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All best, James -- _________________________________________ James Gifford, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English Director of the University Core School of the Humanities University College Fairleigh Dickinson University Voice: 604-648-4476 Fax: 604-648-4489 E-mail: gifford at fdu.edu Web: http://alpha.fdu.edu/~jgifford 842 Cambie Street Vancouver, BC V6B 2P6 Canada From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Thu May 28 09:06:06 2015 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 09:06:06 -0700 Subject: [ilds] Herald no. 33 (2015) In-Reply-To: <55663AB7.8070504@gmail.com> References: <55663AB7.8070504@gmail.com> Message-ID: <55673CEE.3060203@gmail.com> A fast note on the Herald -- yes, there's a typo in the OMG roman numerals... I can't count to XVIV, but it may not be fair to ask a Greek event to do Roman work. In any case, onward and upwards in Alexandrian Arabic fashion to On Miracle Ground *19*! Thanks to those who noticed and wrote to me. I've passed it along to the editor and Anna. Best, James On 2015-05-27 2:44 PM, James Gifford wrote: > Hello all, > > ILDS members have likely already received email notification, but the > latest issue of the Herald is now launched and online: > > http://lawrencedurrell.org/wp_durrell/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/herald33.pdf > > > Tremendous thanks to Pamela Francis for her fine efforts and endless > patience. > > The issue also commemorates our friend and colleague Bill Godshalk with > lovely contributions by Charles Sligh and Ian S. MacNiven. > > All best, > James From bredwine1968 at earthlink.net Thu May 28 10:03:41 2015 From: bredwine1968 at earthlink.net (Bruce Redwine) Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 10:03:41 -0700 Subject: [ilds] Herald no. 33 (2015) In-Reply-To: <55673CEE.3060203@gmail.com> References: <55663AB7.8070504@gmail.com> <55673CEE.3060203@gmail.com> Message-ID: <77547379-96AD-4BA1-A535-DAD57949D49A@earthlink.net> Thanks, James. Perhaps someone can comment on why Rethymnon, Crete was chosen as the site of the meetings, instead of Heraklion, the capital, where most of the extramural activities are located. For all its attractiveness, Rethymnon seems out of the way and not easily accessible. Bruce > On May 28, 2015, at 9:06 AM, James Gifford wrote: > > A fast note on the Herald -- yes, there's a typo in the OMG roman numerals... I can't count to XVIV, but it may not be fair to ask a Greek event to do Roman work. In any case, onward and upwards in Alexandrian Arabic fashion to On Miracle Ground *19*! > > Thanks to those who noticed and wrote to me. I've passed it along to the editor and Anna. > > Best, > James > > On 2015-05-27 2:44 PM, James Gifford wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> ILDS members have likely already received email notification, but the >> latest issue of the Herald is now launched and online: >> >> http://lawrencedurrell.org/wp_durrell/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/herald33.pdf >> >> >> Tremendous thanks to Pamela Francis for her fine efforts and endless >> patience. >> >> The issue also commemorates our friend and colleague Bill Godshalk with >> lovely contributions by Charles Sligh and Ian S. MacNiven. >> >> All best, >> James > _______________________________________________ > ILDS mailing list > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds From billyapt at gmail.com Thu May 28 12:00:44 2015 From: billyapt at gmail.com (William Apt) Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 14:00:44 -0500 Subject: [ilds] Patrick Leigh Fermor Message-ID: <1B38D0CD-D654-4BCA-B5E4-E794BFBA20DC@gmail.com> This touching note from the May 2015 issue of the Philhellene: the Journal of the Patrick Leigh Fermor Society: "Immediately following the agreement to take ownership of Paddy's archives, the [National] Library [of Scotland] was contacted by Magouche Fielding, widow of Xan, Paddy's friend and wartime companion. She believed that such dear friends, who had been so close in life, should be reunited in their archival afterlives, and donated Xan's papers to the Library." WILLIAM APT Attorney at Law 812 San Antonio St, Ste 401 Austin TX 78701 512/708-8300 512/708-8011 FAX From sumantranag at gmail.com Fri May 29 01:26:06 2015 From: sumantranag at gmail.com (Sumantra Nag) Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:56:06 +0530 Subject: [ilds] ILDS Digest, Vol. 97, Issue 24_The ILDS conference, June 2016, Rethymnon, Crete Message-ID: <001001d099e9$1e9008d0$5bb01a70$@gmail.com> Wonderful online copy of the Herald. I still have to go through it in full. Bruce, your comment on Rethymnon interested me. Sujata and I spent a week in Crete in June 2007, staying in Hersonissos, 23 km above Heraklion and our son joined us there from Bangalore en route to Paris. We couldn't make a trip to Rethymnon because we would have lost at least two days in Crete making the journey. We did however manage a well organized day trip by catamaran to Santorini. But Rethymnon always interested us and when we want to visit a place we missed, we always hope we shall make another trip! Only, if we were to ever go back to Greece there are many other islands to visit. The ILDS conference in Crete seems an exciting prospect. The archaeological museum at Heraklion was shut when we were there. Sumantra Today's Topics: 1. Herald no. 33 (2015) (James Gifford) 2. Re: Herald no. 33 (2015) (James Gifford) 3. Re: Herald no. 33 (2015) (Bruce Redwine) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 14:44:23 -0700 From: James Gifford < james.d.gifford at gmail.com> To: ILDS Listserv < ilds at lists.uvic.ca> Subject: [ilds] Herald no. 33 (2015) Message-ID: < 55663AB7.8070504 at gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Hello all, ILDS members have likely already received email notification, but the latest issue of the Herald is now launched and online: http://lawrencedurrell.org/wp_durrell/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/herald33.pd f Tremendous thanks to Pamela Francis for her fine efforts and endless patience. The issue also commemorates our friend and colleague Bill Godshalk with lovely contributions by Charles Sligh and Ian S. MacNiven. All best, James -- _________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 10:03:41 -0700 From: Bruce Redwine < bredwine1968 at earthlink.net> To: james.d.gifford at gmail.com, ilds at lists.uvic.ca Cc: Bruce Redwine < bredwine1968 at earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [ilds] Herald no. 33 (2015) Message-ID: < 77547379-96AD-4BA1-A535-DAD57949D49A at earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks, James. Perhaps someone can comment on why Rethymnon, Crete was chosen as the site of the meetings, instead of Heraklion, the capital, where most of the extramural activities are located. For all its attractiveness, Rethymnon seems out of the way and not easily accessible. Bruce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From bredwine1968 at earthlink.net Sun May 31 03:45:55 2015 From: bredwine1968 at earthlink.net (Bruce Redwine) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 03:45:55 -0700 Subject: [ilds] =?utf-8?b?Tm90ZSByZTogdGhlIG5hbWUg4oCcQXVicmV54oCd?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: In the Quintet, there are a couple of references to Aubrey Blanford in a Joycean context, when talking about Ulysses. Durrell knew the great novel. So your observation has merit. Bruce Sent from my iPhone > On May 30, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Kennedy Gammage wrote: > > This has zero applicability to Jack Aubrey, the hero of Patrick O?Brian?s sea stories ? but it may apply to Aubrey Blanford: > > From Don Gifford?s Ulysses Annotated, p. 17: > > ?1.167 (7:24). Aubrey ? A name regarded as effeminate and frequently used to express the sort of scorn the context applies.? > > Of course, these particular notes are circa 1904 Ireland ? and Blanford?s earliest incarnation in the AQ2 is 1930s England? > > ?But would it be fair to say that Durrell may have had this in mind? > > Cheers - Ken > > _______________________________________________ > ILDS mailing list > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds From bredwine1968 at earthlink.net Sun May 31 15:47:07 2015 From: bredwine1968 at earthlink.net (Bruce Redwine) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 15:47:07 -0700 Subject: [ilds] =?utf-8?b?Tm90ZSByZTogdGhlIG5hbWUg4oCcQXVicmV54oCd?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A further note on Ken?s astute observation. Seems to me this raises a few questions re Lawrence Durrell, James Joyce, and Aubrey Blanford. Here?s the quote from Ulysses: ?Young shouts of moneyed voices in Clive Kempthrope?s rooms. Palefaces: they hold their ribs with laughter, one clasping another, O, I shall expire! Break the news to her gently, Aubrey!? (Telemachus; Modern Library, 1992, p. 7). This is presumably Stephen Dedalus?s stream of consciousness dealing with England (?Palefaces?). I also hear allusions to British aestheticism of the late 19th century, namely, Oscar Wilde (?O, I shall expire! Break the news to her gently, Aubrey!?), a homosexual, and Aubrey Beardsley, of unknown sexuality. Charles Sligh can probably elaborate. So, the questions: 1. How is Aubrey Blanford effeminate in the Joycean sense of an Aubrey Beardsley and/or Oscar Wilde? 2. Why does Blanford refer to Ulysses as ?Joyce?s masterpiece? (Sebastian 126) and later as ?that odious book? (131)? Simply irony? 3. Is Durrell rewriting or taking-on the Joycean novel (a worthy opponent in literary prizefighting), and, if so, is there a close connection between the author and his alter ego, Aubrey Blanford? (?So D. begat Blanford.?) Bruce > On May 31, 2015, at 3:45 AM, Bruce Redwine wrote: > > In the Quintet, there are a couple of references to Aubrey Blanford in a Joycean context, when talking about Ulysses. Durrell knew the great novel. So your observation has merit. > > Bruce > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 30, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Kennedy Gammage wrote: >> >> This has zero applicability to Jack Aubrey, the hero of Patrick O?Brian?s sea stories ? but it may apply to Aubrey Blanford: >> >> From Don Gifford?s Ulysses Annotated, p. 17: >> >> ?1.167 (7:24). Aubrey ? A name regarded as effeminate and frequently used to express the sort of scorn the context applies.? >> >> Of course, these particular notes are circa 1904 Ireland ? and Blanford?s earliest incarnation in the AQ2 is 1930s England? >> >> ?But would it be fair to say that Durrell may have had this in mind? >> >> Cheers - Ken >> >> _______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Sun May 31 20:53:55 2015 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 20:53:55 -0700 Subject: [ilds] =?windows-1252?q?Note_re=3A_the_name_=93Aubrey=94?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <556BD753.1050308@gmail.com> Hi Bruce & Ken, Since I technically am a "Don Gifford," I feel like I need to respond to this one (I devilishly enjoy pointing out that my father is Don Gifford when I'm at the Modernist Studies Association conferences, just not /that/ Don). Might I suggest the MVP Ulysses? http://web.uvic.ca/~mvp1922/portfolio/ulysses-shakespeare-co-1922-1st-edn/ Apart from the text, we have a whole series of videos including ILDS members James Clawson, Alan Warren Friedman, and Michael Stevens. Charles could indeed elaborate, but perhaps we'll get Clawson to chime in as well -- he was in the NEH Ulysses seminar in Dublin just after the centenary conference in London. Durrell could very well be thinking of Joyce, and his CalTech lectures included a detailed consideration of Ulysses (a *very* Durrellian version of Joyce, albeit). As for Joyce thinking of Wilde, he did have Dorian Gray in his library in Trieste and the Italian translation. On 2015-05-31 3:47 PM, Bruce Redwine wrote: > 1. How is Aubrey Blanford effeminate in the Joycean sense of an Aubrey > Beardsley and/or Oscar Wilde? I don't suspect he is, and I doubt Durrell would have been reading Don Gifford, though who knows. It wasn't in his library for Carbondale nor Paris X. > 2. Why does Blanford refer to /Ulysses/ as ?Joyce?s masterpiece? > /(Sebastian/ 126) and later as ?that odious book? (131)? Simply irony? "Odious" might be an allusion, but the word has been applied to Ulysses so many times, especially around the trials, we'd probably need to consult the Joyce scholars to sort out what voice came first and if it would be pertinent here. > 3. Is Durrell rewriting or taking-on the Joycean novel (a worthy > opponent in literary prizefighting), and, if so, is there a close > connection between the author and his alter ego, Aubrey Blanford? (?So > D. begat Blanford.?) To use a Joycean word, "Yes." There is, of course, a close connection between Joyce and Stephen, and I think Durrell (like Miller) saw Joyce as one of the Bloomian strong poets to be redefined through a stronger misprision. I don't usually go for Bloom, but in this situation I think he applies remarkably well. I'm reminded that the Quartet ends with (or almost ends with) the same words that open /A Portrait of the Artist/, much as Justine (revised) ends with the same final words as Pound's Canto I. Durrell was keenly aware of this modernist forebears and their influence, to be carried or corrupted. More often than not, I think he was conducting that corrupting misprision. All best, James From gammage.kennedy at gmail.com Sun May 31 22:24:30 2015 From: gammage.kennedy at gmail.com (Kennedy Gammage) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 22:24:30 -0700 Subject: [ilds] =?utf-8?b?Tm90ZSByZTogdGhlIG5hbWUg4oCcQXVicmV54oCd?= In-Reply-To: <556BD753.1050308@gmail.com> References: <556BD753.1050308@gmail.com> Message-ID: Thank you James and Bruce. I guess my take-away is, if Durrell was consciously saddling his character with a name known to be a byword for effeminacy, it serves to further weaken the Alpha Male primacy of Blanford the Novelist: would-be alter ego/ delusional creator of other characters etc. It may help us make allowances for his egotism, for this is an at-times deeply insecure person who has truly been ?wounded in his sex.? Aubrey is no Stephen Dedalus - he will in no sense grow up to write the Avignon Quintet, though that would have saved Durrell quite a bit of work. Blanford?s friend and foil Sutcliffe has a bit of Buck Mulligan in him. Cheers - Ken On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:53 PM, James Gifford wrote: > Hi Bruce & Ken, > > Since I technically am a "Don Gifford," I feel like I need to respond to > this one (I devilishly enjoy pointing out that my father is Don Gifford > when I'm at the Modernist Studies Association conferences, just not /that/ > Don). > > Might I suggest the MVP Ulysses? > > http://web.uvic.ca/~mvp1922/portfolio/ulysses-shakespeare-co-1922-1st-edn/ > > Apart from the text, we have a whole series of videos including ILDS > members James Clawson, Alan Warren Friedman, and Michael Stevens. > > Charles could indeed elaborate, but perhaps we'll get Clawson to chime in > as well -- he was in the NEH Ulysses seminar in Dublin just after the > centenary conference in London. > > Durrell could very well be thinking of Joyce, and his CalTech lectures > included a detailed consideration of Ulysses (a *very* Durrellian version > of Joyce, albeit). As for Joyce thinking of Wilde, he did have Dorian Gray > in his library in Trieste and the Italian translation. > > On 2015-05-31 3:47 PM, Bruce Redwine wrote: > >> 1. How is Aubrey Blanford effeminate in the Joycean sense of an Aubrey >> Beardsley and/or Oscar Wilde? >> > > I don't suspect he is, and I doubt Durrell would have been reading Don > Gifford, though who knows. It wasn't in his library for Carbondale nor > Paris X. > > 2. Why does Blanford refer to /Ulysses/ as ?Joyce?s masterpiece? >> /(Sebastian/ 126) and later as ?that odious book? (131)? Simply irony? >> > > "Odious" might be an allusion, but the word has been applied to Ulysses so > many times, especially around the trials, we'd probably need to consult the > Joyce scholars to sort out what voice came first and if it would be > pertinent here. > > 3. Is Durrell rewriting or taking-on the Joycean novel (a worthy >> opponent in literary prizefighting), and, if so, is there a close >> connection between the author and his alter ego, Aubrey Blanford? (?So >> D. begat Blanford.?) >> > > To use a Joycean word, "Yes." There is, of course, a close connection > between Joyce and Stephen, and I think Durrell (like Miller) saw Joyce as > one of the Bloomian strong poets to be redefined through a stronger > misprision. I don't usually go for Bloom, but in this situation I think he > applies remarkably well. > > I'm reminded that the Quartet ends with (or almost ends with) the same > words that open /A Portrait of the Artist/, much as Justine (revised) ends > with the same final words as Pound's Canto I. Durrell was keenly aware of > this modernist forebears and their influence, to be carried or corrupted. > More often than not, I think he was conducting that corrupting misprision. > > All best, > James > > _______________________________________________ > ILDS mailing list > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: