tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post5004208960631262249..comments2024-03-11T16:29:13.619-05:00Comments on Lingwë - Musings of a Fish: A new publication in an unknown encyclopediaJason Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-27298660150733078112008-11-17T09:34:00.000-06:002008-11-17T09:34:00.000-06:00Hi, Dimitra. Thanks for dropping in to comment and...Hi, Dimitra. Thanks for dropping in to comment and to clarify some of the points we’d been talking about here. I’m looking forward to reading your entry on Le Guin, by the way. She’s a favorite author of mine. :)Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-70074907232463386182008-11-15T16:55:00.000-06:002008-11-15T16:55:00.000-06:00Hello there.Thanks to Jason for spreading the word...Hello there.<BR/><BR/>Thanks to Jason for spreading the word about the <I>Literary Encyclopedia</I>. It is indeed slightly better known in universities in the UK but still not as much as it deserves (I think!)<BR/><BR/>Also thanks to n.e.brigand for the feedback on my entry on <I>Unfinished Tales</I>. Jason was right to point out that the new requirement for a "works cited" list and "recommended reading" list is much more recent than January 2008. I was first asked to provide a reference in my entry on J.M. Barrie's novel <I>Peter and Wendy</I>, which was not published until May 2008 - and I was only asked for it because I had used direct quotations from the novel which was not common practice in the earlier years of the <I>Literary Encyclopedia</I>. My latest entry (the biographical profile on Ursula Le Guin, which will be published next week) has an extensive list of “works cited” and a list of “web resources”.<BR/><BR/>I would also like to say that if there is any more feedback on any of my academic work (especially in the case of errata, factual errors, etc) I would appreciate it if you could let me know about them via my webpage at <A>http://www.dimitrafimi.com</A> (under “Contact”).<BR/><BR/>Best Wishes,<BR/><BR/>DimitraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-41899479360098159322008-11-14T21:04:00.000-06:002008-11-14T21:04:00.000-06:00Are my comment-replies too wordy? :)Are my comment-replies too wordy? :)Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-32170057799457076342008-11-14T21:03:00.000-06:002008-11-14T21:03:00.000-06:00Congratulations on the new article -- nice work! I...<I>Congratulations on the new article -- nice work! I first learned of this encyclopedia from Doug Anderson’s bibliography of Rosebury in Tolkien Studies 5 [...]</I><BR/><BR/>Thanks! :)<BR/><BR/>I’ve pointed out the reference in the Rosebury Checklist to a couple of people also. For everyone else, if you have Volume 5 of <I>Tolkien Studies</I>, turn to p. 21. This will hopefully lead others there, as it did you, and I hope they won’t give up because the resource requires payment. Speaking of, it appears based on the rest of your comments that you decided to pony up? It sounds like you read my entire entry ...?<BR/><BR/><I>I’m surprised that there is no hyperlink cross-referencing within articles.</I><BR/><BR/>Me too, but I can understand how it might require more editorial effort to maintain links between articles being published on different schedules than they wish to invest, at least for now. But it would improve the resource. There’s clearly room for improvement. They did recently install something called hyperwords, which is supposed to work in a similar fashion, but I haven’t tested that out yet.<BR/><BR/><I>Speaking of that list [Works Consulted], Rosebury's four entries, dating from 2001-2002, don't cite other critical works. Nor does Fimi's article of this year. But you list some 14 sources.</I><BR/><BR/>Right. My editor informed me that this was new as of the beginning of 2008. She must have been a little off, though, because Dimitra’s essay was published after the first of the year. But essays going forward will have proper citations and a concluding bibliography. It’s unclear whether or when they mean to go back to existing entries to add them. I hope they do, for consistency as well as credibility.<BR/><BR/>Likewise, I don’t know whether entries will be updated for content, along the lines you suggest. (And good points you made, too, about both Rosebury’s and Fimi’s essays.) Obviously, they wouldn’t want to change them constantly (like Wikipedia entries), but there ought to be some compromise and an apparatus for correcting mistakes and incorporating new scholarship.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for taking a look, not only at my entry but those others, and for offering such thorough feedback.Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-82890536784120667412008-11-14T20:00:00.000-06:002008-11-14T20:00:00.000-06:00Congratulations on the new article -- nice work! ...Congratulations on the new article -- nice work! I first learned of this encyclopedia from Doug Anderson's bibliography of Rosebury in <I>Tolkien Studies 5</I>, but didn't follow up when I realized it required a paid subscription and (unlike ProjectMuse) wasn't carried by my local library.<BR/><BR/>I'm surprised that there is no hyperlink cross-referencing within articles. Also, it's nice to see you've cited an article from the <I>J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia</I>, but I wish that entries that run longer than one line in the Works Consulted lists received some indentation to make the list easier to read. Speaking of that list, Rosebury's four entries, dating from 2001-2002, don't cite other critical works. Nor does Fimi's article of this year. But you list some 14 sources.<BR/><BR/>Turning to Rosebury: in the heading of his "J.R.R. Tolkien" article, Tolkien is listed as "active" for 1937-1973. But he is also described there as "Novelist, Critic, Teacher". In the second and third capacities, he was active from the 1920s. I wonder if entries will be updated? Rosebury says that Christopher Tolkien's own writing in <I>The Silmarillion</I> consists of only a "few linking phrases and sentences", but by 1994 CT had acknowledged his necessarily heavy hand in Chapter 22. And there is of course nothing about <I>The History of 'The Hobbit'</I> in Rosebury's article on that work.<BR/><BR/>Finally, Fimi is not quite correct that there are no "tales" in the fourth section of <I>Unfinished Tales</I>: there are two short narratives in the "Drúedain" chapter.N.E. Brigandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601573470596905112noreply@blogger.com
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