Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS English Language Notes is soliciting contributions for a special winter 1978 issue devoted to nineteenth-century English literature. Essays should be no longer than 5,000 words and must be received by April 15, 1978. Please send manuscripts to Professor Charles L. Proudfit, Editor, ELN, Department of English, Hellems Building 101, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309. Crossing Frontiers: Canadian and American Western Literature. A conference bringing together scholars and writers from Canada and the United States to compare the literatures of the two Wests in relation to their cultural and historical backgrounds. The Banff Centre, Banff Alberta, 12-15 April 1978 Major papers by Leslie Fiedler, Robert Kroetsch, Howard Lamar, Eli Mandel, W. L. Morton, Don D. Walker. Readings by Dorothy Livesay, Frederick Manfred, W. O. Mitchell, Andrew Suknaski, Frank Waters, Rudy Wiebe, and others. Panels and group discussions including John Cawelti, Richard Etulain, Henry Kreisel, John R. Milton. For further information : Dick Harrison, Conference Chairman Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada ...