The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1440  Friday, 16 July 2004

[1]     From:   Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
        Date:   Thursday, 15 Jul 2004 07:52:45 -0400
        Subj:   Re: SHK 15.1431 A Query: MLA's Variorum Project

[2]     From:   R.A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
        Date:   Thursday, 15 Jul 2004 12:37:35 -0500
        Subj:   Re: SHK 15.1431 A Query: MLA's Variorum Project


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From:           Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Thursday, 15 Jul 2004 07:52:45 -0400
Subject: 15.1431 A Query: MLA's Variorum Project
Comment:        Re: SHK 15.1431 A Query: MLA's Variorum Project

Good luck doing anything with MLA that involves electronic media.  What
an embarrassingly, backward, even retarded organization MLA is.  Compare
PMLA to the American Historical Review.  Compare the MLA bibliography to
the World Shakespeare online bibliography.  A librarian here at UF
resigned from a MLA committee on the bibliography after it was clear
there was no real commitment to improve it.  Subscriptions to PMLA have
plummeted in part because of its resistance to going online (again,
check AHR for a shocking contrast).  Trying doing a Google search of MLA
or Modern Language Association.  The MLA website comes not come up.
Unless you already know it is MLA.org, you won't find it.  Talk about
total incompetence.  People at the forefront of research on electronic
texts such as Jerry McGann view the MLA and PMLA with revulsion.

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From:           R.A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Thursday, 15 Jul 2004 12:37:35 -0500
Subject: 15.1431 A Query: MLA's Variorum Project
Comment:        Re: SHK 15.1431 A Query: MLA's Variorum Project

Richard Knowles at U of Wisconsin, Madison is the General Editor of the
New Variorum.

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