I am seeking contributors for a volume in the Dictionary of Literary
Biography series with the working title _North American University
Presses_. Entries will range in length from 3000-8000 words, and offer
a chronological overview of the history of each press, discuss the
press's significance, editorial emphases, and current publishing
activities. Contributors receive a small honorarium and a copy of the
volume. The deadline for submission of completed entries is 1 November
2004.

This is to announce "The Alchemy Issue" of Pataphysica, journal
of a certain science. A symbolic science of imaginary
solutions, alchemy is a branch of pataphysics, the "science of
sciences" founded by Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). Jarry's own work
is steeped in alchemical allusions, from (among many other
instances) his 1894 exhortation to "study conjunctions!"
("Visions Present and Future"); to his 1898 "neo-scientific"
novel Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician,
where the evicting locksmith, Mr. Lourdeau, resides at "205 rue
Nicolas Flamel" (Flamel was a legendary 14th century alchemist);
to his 1899 "Automovable Feast" in Père Ubu's Illustrated

Asian Gothic Literature (extended deadline)

I am extending the deadline for the solicitation of abstracts on Asian
Gothic Literature until the last day of February 2004. I would like to
encourage work on Asian literature with strong Gothic flavour outside
Japanese literature as this seems to be predominating at the moment.
Thanks.
Please send all abstracts to: ng.hock.soon_at_engsci.monash.edu.my and
address it to Andrew Ng.

Call for Papers, Special Issue of The Canadian Review of Studies in
Nationalism