The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0582 Friday, 7 September 2007
From: Hardy M. Cook <
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Date: Friday, September 07, 2007
Subject: Request for Reactions to and Thoughts about Possible New Feature
Dear SHAKSPEReans,
A few years ago, to avoid having postings of a commercial nature on
SHAKSPER, I developed, with the assistance of members of the Advisory
Board and of the list itself, guidelines about announcing book releases.
These guidelines stipulate that members and interested parties may make
announcements about publications so long as these announcements are
primarily informational, emphasizing details about the work's content.
Such announcements may include links to sites that are promotional, but
the announcements themselves should not appear as such. I have found
these guidelines helpful, and now I would like to call upon members to
assist me again.
Setting aside for a moment considerations about its success or failure,
one reason I instituted the SHAKSPER Roundtable was as an effort to have
SHAKSPER remain as a useful service to the Shakespearean academic
community - to continue to evolve and not to ossify or stagnate. For
similar reasons, I am considering adding a book-reviewing feature to
SHAKSPER.
Over the years, discussions of new publications in the field have been
an important component of our exchanges on this list. I thought that it
might be appropriate to be more intentional about this aspect of our
discourse.
One possibility might be to establish a small group of Book Review
advisors, to whom I would forward requests that I receive to have a book
reviewed or to generate a list of possible new publications to be
reviewed for so-called "publication" on SHAKSPER. The members of this
group would then make a request for reviewers and subsequently select
someone to be awarded the task. The reviewer would then have time to
read, consider, and write a thoughtful 500 to a 1000 word review for
posting on the list and for archiving on a book review section of the
web site. These reviews would then become the basis for further
discussion threads about the work under consideration or its subject. We
may even request from the publishers that a copy of the book to be
reviewed be sent to the reviewer. These ideas are only some
possibilities that have occurred to me and are not the product of deep
reflection.
As a next step, let me request your private reactions to and thoughts
about the possibility of our initiating a new feature for SHAKSPER
dedicated to book reviews of works in our areas of interest.
Hardy M. Cook
Editor
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