{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1866",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
  },
  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1866,
    "subject": "Modernism, academic study, etc",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-27T09:19:15+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-27T09:19:15+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0269@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jonathan Laidlow",
        "address": "laidlojm at hhs.bham.ac.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-27T09:19:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Modernism, academic study, etc",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Hello folks,\n\nI've been away for a little while - work is hell - the thesis drags ever \ncloser to completion, but this morning I took twenty minutes to skim \nthrough the latest Urth digests.\n\nI agree with Damian - a fascinating discussion of Modernism - far \nmore interesting than the ugly flame war I started on the subject \nsome months ago. I still maintain, and urge you to read, Clute and \nNicholls' piece on Wolfe in the SF Encyclopedia and its related \ntexts. It is a very interesting piece on the subject of Wolfe and \nmodernist SF. Given a little time, and if my CD-Rom was in the \noffice I'd quote a few passages from it. Maybe tomorrow.\n\nOn the subject of academic study of Wolfe -well it is happening. My \nwebsite bibliography of academic studies of Wolfe requires \nupdating - it doesn't have any of Robert Borski's pieces in NYRSF \nyet as I haven't tracked them down. It also hasn't got Gerlach's new \npiece on Long Sun in Extrapolation yet. A recent book on British \nSF films features a piece by Peter Wright. Not on Wolfe, but the \nnotes on contributors assert that he is working on a study of Wolfe.\n\nI've also several times talked the talk about putting together some \nkind of academic journal on Wolfe. While my academic position is \ncurrently tenuous, once I'm in a secure job I plan to try to put \ntogether at least one set of scholarly essays on Wolfe. Nigel Price \nand I have also frequently discussed doing a one day symposium \non Wolfe in the UK and I'm currently in the very early stages of \nplanning that. More information as it becomes available!\n\nAs for the journal - Potto and I have discussed putting an electronic \npreview issue on my website which would reprint his now out-of-\nprint Nova Express piece and perhaps a few other choice morsels.\n\nSuggestions and offers of help greatly appreciated.\n\nJonathan Laidlow\nVisit Ultan's Library - A Gene Wolfe web resource\nhttp://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/index.htm\nJonathan Laidlow\nUniversity of Birmingham, UK"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}