To order the Wheaton CDROM
Wheaton College Bookstore
418 N. Chase Street
Wheaton IL 60187
phone 630-752-5119
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Cost $29.50 plus $4.50 shipping. Illinois residents add sales tax.
I should have mentioned, when recommending this, that I'm not a medievalist,
I don't read Latin, and I touch on medieval issues only peripherally, when
writing about T. S. Eliot's use of literary allusion. But I'm familiar with
the problem mentioned by several posters, which is that the edition one
prefers or ought to use is not likely to be on a CDROM or on the internet. So
I'll say a few words about that, using James Joyce's _Ulysses_ as an example.
I own the preferred edition in print form. The edition I downloaded from the
internet is useful, although not the preferred edition. It's wonderful for
running quick searches to see whether, say, Hamlet is mentioned often, and if
so where. When I find something I actually want to use, I check it against
the preferred edition, and quote from that. It's a big time-saver to know
what print-edition chapter to look in, and whether at the beginning, middle,
or end of the chapter. It also helps to know both editions, as one has to
make an assessment of how greatly they differ. One wouldn't use a CDROM
version of the King James Bible if what one needed to find was in one of the
apocryphal books.
I've talked to many colleagues who do this or something similar. Whether it's
helpful is an individual preference.
pat sloane
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