The Editor's Fence

110 THS EDITOR'S FENCE 1. ELT Special Session on English Fiction (1880-1920) - Critical Approaches (MLA, Chicago. Dec. 1977)ι The twenty-first consecutive meeting of the ELT Special Session will be chaired by H. E. Gerber (Arizona State University). Position statements designed to stimulate discussion will be published in Volume 20, Number 4 (1977) of ELT. No papers will be read, but discussion will be guided by those who prepared the position statements. Papers arising from the discussion, whether written by the panelists or by participants in the audience, will be considered for publication in future numbers of ELT. 2. The On-Leave Working Editor ι During the present academic year, the Editor will be enjoying the fruits of a Distinguished Research Award, one of the first two such awards established by the Graduate College at A.S.U. He will be freed from all committee duties, a particular joy, and from all formal teaching assignments, which he accepts with mixed feelings of relief and guilt. He is required to be present on campus and available to his doctoral candidates, a consolation that may temper his sense of guilt. Mainly, he will be trying to advance a major research project that has been persistently side-tracked for some twenty years. While the Editor reads and writes and slips away for a few occasional hours of productive musing, his teaching duties will be assumed by Visiting Professor Ian Fletcher (University of Reading) Ian will no doubt spark students who have had quite enough of Gerber for the last six years. Hopefully, Gerber will emerge from all this with renewed energy, patience, and good humor. ELT, of course, will go on as usual. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. MLA's New Review of Research! Anglo-Irish Literature! A Review of Research, the third of the series of bibliographical guides published by the MLA, appeared in Dec. 1976. Under the editorship of Richard J. Finneran, the volume includes the following chapters and contributors! General Works (Richard M. Kain), Nineteenth-Century Writers (James F. Kilroy), Oscar Wilde (Ian Fletcher and John Stokes), George Moore (Helmut E. Gerber), Bernard Shaw (Stanley Weintraub), W. B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran), J. M. Synge (Weldon Thornton), James Joyce (Thomas F. Staley), Four Revival Figures ι Lady Gregory, A. E. [George W. Russell], Oliver St. John Gogarty, and James Stephens (James F. Carens), Sean O'Casey (David Krause), and The Modern Drama (Robert Hogan, Bonnie K. Scott, and Gordon Henderson). Each chapter examines the appropriate research, criticism, manuscripts and editions of the authors' works, correspondence, biographical and autobiographical works, and literary and historical influences. ...