What’s new in these pages? (June 2003)

June 30, 2003
Bibliography: the process of replacing <font> tags with cascading style sheets, which will make files smaller and font displays more consistent, has been approximately 50% completed.

June 29, 2003
Home: the Discovering Others II course page has been updated.

June 28, 2003
A problem that causes some text to display in some browsers in the wrong font is being addressed, but will take days to fix throughout the site.

June 27, 2003
A problem that led some pages to display thirty to forty pixels wider than others has been fixed.

June 26, 2003
Home: the Contemporary Problems, Case Studies I, and Case Studies II course pages have been updated.

June 25, 2003
Home: the Academic Presentations I course page has been updated.

Archive: buying information about in print titles has been added to several pages.

June 24, 2003
Home: the graduate Methods of Academic Presentation course page has been updated, and the presentation evaluation worksheet added to the Worksheets area.

The Archive has (another) new introduction, more explicitly-outlined Terms of Use, and a new Full Contents page.

June 23, 2003
The Archive has a new introduction, which will be fleshed out further in coming days, and new tables of (prospective) contents.

June 22, 2003
Home: the graduate Cultural Studies course page has been updated.

Archive: additions are Arthur Davison Ficke, from Seven Japanese Paintings (1916-17), Amy Lowell, from Guns as Keys (1917), Witter Bynner, In the House of Lafcadio Hearn (1917) and Through a Gateway in Japan (1919), Ruth Mason Rice, A Japanese Print (1918), John Gould Fletcher, from Japanese Prints (1918), Alfred Noyes, Nippon (1918), Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Thoughts on Leaving Japan (1918), W. B. Yeats, from The Dreaming of the Bones (1919), Lillian M. Miller, A Japanese November (1919), Marjorie Allen Seiffert, A Japanese Vase Wrought in Metals (1919), Yone Noguchi, Hokku (1919), Jun Fujita, Tanka (1919), and Richard Aldington, Living Sepulchres (1919).

June 21, 2003
Home: the Discovering Others II course page has been updated.

Archive: additions are A. J. Russell, The House of Takumi (1914), Richard Aldington, Penultimate Poetry (1914), John Masefield, from The Faithful (1915), Alfred Noyes, A Knight of Old Japan (1915), and Ezra Pound, from Nishikigi (1914), from Vorticism (1914), from Sword-Dance and Spear-Dance (1916), and from Kaikitsubata (1916).

June 20, 2003
Home: the Case Studies I, Case Studies II, and Academic Presentations II course pages have been updated.

June 19, 2003
Archive: additions are Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro (1913), John Gould Fletcher, From the Japanese (1913), Arthur Davison Ficke, from Chats on Japanese Prints (1913-1915), Amy Lowell, from Lacquer Prints (1913-1919), and Vachel Lindsay, The Jingo and the Minstrel (1914).

June 18, 2003
Home: the Academic Presentations I and Contemporary Problems course pages have been updated.

Archive: additions are Marie Stopes, To Japan (1910), Adelaide Crapsey, Cinquains (1911-1913), Amy Lowell, A Japanese Wood-Carving (1911) and A Coloured Print by Shokei (1912), and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, On Seeing the Daibutsu (1912).

June 17, 2003
Home: the graduate Methods of Academic Presentation course page has been updated.

Archive: additions are Gordon Bottomley, To Yone Noguchi (1906), Nora Chesson, A Geisha Song (1906), Arthur Davison Ficke, At Ise, Muramadzu, and Kôbô Daishi’s Fire (1907) and A Song of East and West (1908), Joseph I. C. Clarke, The Soul of Nippon (1908), Philip Henry Dodge, The Voice of Kegan Fall (ca. 1908), Yone Noguchi, Kyoto, The Japanese Night, and The Heike Singer (1908), and Alfred Noyes, The Two Painters (1909).

June 16, 2003
Archive: additions are A. C. Benson, Ode to Japan (1902), Yone Noguchi, Spirits of Fuji Mountain (1903), Vernon Nott, Japan (1904), Joaquin Miller, The Little Brown Man (ca. 1904) and At Vespers in Tokyo (1905), H. D. Rawnsley, Voices from the Dust, Launch of the Japanese Battleship, and To the Mikado (all 1905), George Barlow, The Battle of the Sea of Japan (1905), and James Rhoades, Japan and the Treaty of Portsmouth (1905).

June 15, 2003
Home: the graduate Cultural Studies course page has been updated.

Archive: George Barlow, The Anglo-Japanese Treaty Sonnet (1902).

June 14, 2003
Home: the Discovering Others II course page has been updated.

June 13, 2003
Home: Case Studies I , Case Studies II, and Academic Presentations II course pages have been updated.

June 12, 2003
Archive: additions are Alfred Noyes, Old Japan (1902), Haunted in Old Japan (1902), and A Japanese Love Song (1909).

June 11, 2003
Home: the Academic Presentations I and Contemporary Problems course pages have been updated.

Archive: additions are Oliver Herford, Japaneseque (ca. 1893), Mrs. Merrill E. Gates, Japanese War Song (1895), Mae St. John Bramhall, The Japanese “Good-Day” (1897), Aldis Dunbar, Japanesque (1900), and Edgar Fawcett, The Yellow Danger (1900).

June 10, 2003
Home: the graduate Methods of Academic Presentation course page has been updated.

Archive: additions are Rudyard Kipling, Buddha at Kamakura (1892), Edwin Arnold, Fuji-yama and The Musmee (both 1892), Ernest Fenollosa, Sonnet: Fuji at Sunrise (1893), Mary McNeill Scott, To a Portrait of a Japanese Princess (1894), Mary Stockton Hunter, A Japanese Sword Song (1895), and Margaret A. Brooks, Japan, the Youngest Born (1899).

June 9, 2003
Archive: additions are W. E. Henley, Ballade of a Toyokuni Colour Print (1888), John Hay, A Dream of Bric-á-Brac (1890), the Anonymous The Japanese Doll (ca. 1890), and Louis Belrose, Jr., A Japanese Sword.

June 8, 2003
The margins are searchable. The Search link is now only available on the home page and a few others, but in time it will appear in the right-hand sidebar of all pages.

Home: the graduate Cultural Studies course page has ben updated, and presentation notes for the May 31 and June 7 meetings, Notes toward a reflextive model of textuality, have been posted in the worksheets section.

Archive: additions are H. W. Longfellow, from Kéramos (1878), W. S. Gilbert, Two Songs from The Mikado (1885), and William Struthers, The Rejected Japanese Lover (1887).

June 7, 2003
Archive: bibliographical details and in some cases brief commentaries have been added to the poems already included.

June 6, 2003
Home: the Case Studies II, Academic Presentations II, and Discovering Others II course pages have been updated.

Archive: additions are Walt Whitman’s The Errand-Bearers (1860) and Margaret Veley’s The Japanese Fan.(1876).

June 5, 2003
Home: the Contemporary Problems course page has been updated.

Archive: additions are the anonymous Society in Japan (1867), Horace Russell and William Greene’s The Japanese Lovers (ca. 1870), Oliver Wendell Holmes’s At the Banquet to the Japanese Embassy (1872), and R. H. Horne’s Ode to the Mikado of Japan (1873).

June 4, 2003
Home: the Academic Presentations I course page has been updated.

Archive: The section of the site that was called Anthology of Japan in Anglo-American verse has been renamed An Archive of Japan in Anglo-American Verse, and has its first entries, Louisa Stuart Costello’s Supposed to be Sung by the Wife of a Japanese (1825), Alexander Rodger’s The Devil’s Visit to the Islands of Japan (1838), and C. H. W.’s An Ode to the Japanese (1860). Links to the Archive throughout the site still say “Anthology,” but in time will be changed to reflect the new emphasis.

June 3, 2003
Home: the graduate Methods of Academic Presentation course page has been updated.

June 2, 2003
Home: Guide to Kulchur and Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics have new entries.

June 1, 2003
Home: a section on Reflexivity has been added to the links page, and new links have been added to the sections on Media Studies and Representation.

Bibliography: links have been completed for the index of chronology through 1935.