Editor's Letter

EDITOR'S LETTER The program that you are about to examine represents a radical departure from previous formats. In addition to continuing the practice established with the 1982 program of preparing camera-ready typescript in order to enable us to mail the program to your earlier than would be possible with conventional typesetting, we have prepared this program without the descriptive abstracts that have been the custom in the past. The Board approved this change in order to permit an additional cost saving in the preparation of the journal. We regret this change, but the RMMLA was the only regional affiliate of the MLA that included abstracts with program listings; as you know the MLA does not include abstracts either. We hope, nevertheless, that your use of the program will not seriously impeded by this modification dictated by current economic conditions. Faculty members are urged to bring to the attention of their graduate students the existence of the RMMLA and the special membership rate. Please also call the Association to the attention of your colleagues. Only be expanding the base of the Association will we be able to avoid a dues increase. All program participants are reminded that they must be members of the RMMLA. Once again, we have had to send out over fifty letters to individuals on the program to remind them either that they were not yet members of the Association or that their annual dues were in arrears. Section chairs for 1984 are especially urged to inform potential participants of the membership requirement. With this issue of the Review, Prof. Marie-France Hilgar, of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, replaces Ronald Tobin as representative for French. Prof. Tobin has assumed the position of Managing Editor of the French Review . I am grateful to him for the excellent advice he has provided me in fielding submissions in the area of French literature. ...