This sounds like a good topic. Text-encoding (storage) and text presentation (display and navigation) of literary texts are frequently topics of discussion on the medievalist lists to which I subscribe. I've produced an electronic edition of the Anglo-Saxon poem known as The Wanderer (www.ot.com/~tim). Some scholars have liked my approach (issues of interpretation aside), i.e. largely browser-neutral HTML with minimal JavaScript (if support for Netscape and Internet Explorer and any other browser that supports frames, image maps, and JavaScript can be considered browser-neutral), while others have wished to ignore the issue of presentation entirely and have focused instead on issues of SGML-encoding. Does the evolving XML standard have a place in such discussions? Jonathan Morse raised what could be a related topic a few days ago -- representing and studying the typed page as Pound set it down. Should electronic editions of Pound be encoding his idiosyncratic typographic conventions? Tim Romano ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan P. Gill <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, 25 Oct 1999 9:22 AM Subject: Pound session at the MLA (fwd) > Patricia Cockram has had some trouble posting to the list, so she was > wondering if this response to my query about technology and the teaching > of Pound as an MLA session would be of more general interest. Here goes: > > "I would be very interested in participating in something about teaching > Pound using electronics. I have, in fact, produced an as-yet unpublished > cd-rom edition of the two Italian Cantos, which is both a teaching tool > and a work of textual scholarship. (It was half of my dissertation) . I > have presented parts of it in the past and have also spoken to textual > scholars and to graduate students about theories of hypertext for teaching > and criticism. Pound is one of the naturals for this sort of project. > Even Mary de Rachewiltz, who hates computers, came to agree; it is her > voice that I present reading the Italian (though she wants me to get rid > of it, because she hates the reading and her voice)." > >