Call for Papers: "Melville and/as Myth"

Dr. Gordon Poole is editing a thematic issue (no. 19, Winter 1999) of the Italian revue of literary studies, Igitur, on Melville, specifically "Melville and/as Myth." By this should be understood not only myths in his works (Biblical, Gnostic, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, etc.) but also Melville and his works as myth.

The issue should be out by February 2000, so the deadline for contributions has been set as October 15, 1999, to be sent in duplicate to

Please include an electronic copy on a diskette saved in a version of Word for Windows no more recent than 6.0.

Since contributions will be anonymously referred to outside readers, contributers are invited not to include their name on their essays but to submit a separate cover page containing name, addresses, telephones, and faxes. To quote from the Igitur "Notes for contributors," "typescripts, printed double-spaced, should not be more than thirty pages long. Consecutively numbered notes must be on a separate sheet at the end of the text. For reasons of uniformity, contributors should use international-standard references, e.g., incorporate references in the text (Turner 1974:23). The bibliography should be on a separate sheet and only include works cited in the text or notes, in alphabetical and chronological order if more than one reference is made to a particular author. Authors will receive 15 offprints. All submissions must be original, not published elsewhere and not submitted concurrently to other journals."

Queries can be addressed to Dr. Poole by e-mail at go.poole@agora.stm.it.

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