Otto
Steinmayer: Publications, Editing, Translations,
together with texts prepared and posted
as internet resources
Note:
Texts
of amy items can be viewed on the internet at the URLs indicated in
blue.
Book or part
of
book
Jalai Jako' Iban: a
Basic Grammar
of the Iban Language of Sarawak.
Star Company: Kuching, Sarawak, 1999. (Reviewed by Prof.
Alexander
Adelaar in Borneo Research Bulletin,
vol. 35, 2004, 212-213.)
Herculei Labores
and Festina
Lente: Two Essays Translated from the Adagiaof Desiderius
Erasmus. Lundu, Sarawak, by the
author, 1999. With introduction and notes. Also published
on the internet at:
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/herc/ and http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/speude/
"Classic
Problems: Classic Solutions." in Challenges of Reading the New and
the
Old , ed.
Lim Chee
Seng, Dept. of English, Universiti Malaya, in association with MACLALS,
1995.
"Classical
Literary References to the Electric Ray," Appendix D in Whittaker,
V.P.: The
Cholinergic Neuron and its Target: the Electromotor Innervation of the
Electric
Ray Torpedo
as a
Model.
Birkhˆ§user,
Basel, 1992.
"Parnassus
set by the ears: music and poets in early 18th century England," in Perspectives , 1989, Kuala Lumpur,
pp.
21-51.
Articles
in
Scholarly
Journals
Review of Heidi Munan, Food Heritage of Sarawak: A Cultural
Perspective. (2012, Al-Bukhary Series II. [Kuala Lumpur]: Department of
National Heritage]. Borneo Research
Bulletin. vol. 43, 2012. 300-302.
Review of Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire
Conversation with Alfred Russel Wallace on People and Nature Based on Common
Travel in the Malay Archipelago. (2012, Singapore: Editions Dider Millet).Borneo Research Bulletin. vol.
43, 2012, 294-296.
"Letter from Lundu." [ ]. Borneo Research Bulletin, vol. 43, 2012,
255-257.
"Letter from Lundu"
[5]. Borneo Research Bulletin,
vol. 38, 2007, 207-209.
Review of J. C. B.
Petropoulos: Eroticism in Ancient
and Medieval Greek Poetry. In Classical
Bulletin 81.2 (2005) p. 219-220
"Letter from Lundu"
[4]. Borneo Research Bulletin,
vol. 37, 2006, 193-194.
Review of Sophie
Gibson: Aristoxenus
of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology.
In the
(on-line) Bryn Mawr Classical
Review http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-10-20.html
"Letter from Lundu"
[3]. Borneo Research Bulletin,
vol. 36, 2005, 229-230.
Review of Bob Reece: The
White Rajahs of Sarawak, a Borneo Dynasty
(Archipelago Press,
Singapore). Borneo
Research Bulletin,
vol. 35, 2004, 209-210.
"A Letter from Lundu"
[2]. Borneo Research Bulletin, vol.
35, 2004, 184-185.
"A Letter from Lundu"
[1]. Borneo Research Bulletin,
vol. 34, 2003, 151-152.
Review of Judith
Heimann: The
Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and his Remarkable Life (University of Hawai'i
Press).
Borneo Research Bulletin,
vol. 33, 2002, 191-194. {reprinted from publication in the New
Straits Times. See
below.]
Review of Daryl Hine: Puerilities:
Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology (Princeton
University Press).
Bryn Mawr
Classical Review.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-04-02.html
response by
the Lambda Classical Caucus:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-04-13.html
reply by Otto
Steinmayer:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-04-21.html
Review of Yong K.T.,
Tan Sri
Datuk Amar Stephen : A Life Twice Lived: A Memoir and Ong Kee Hui, Tan Sri
Datuk (Dr): Footprints
on Sarawak: Memoirs... Journal of
the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society
vol. lxxiii part 1,
2000,
126-129.
Review of Kenneth Rexroth, Poems
from the Greek Anthology, expanded
edition. Bryn Mawr Classical Review http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-11-06.html
Review
of Morwood Four Tragedies of Euripides
(Oxford University Press).
Bryn Mawr Classical Reviewhttp://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-06-05.html
Review
of John G. Younger, Music in the Ancient Mediterranean. Bryn Mawr
Classical
Review http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/1998-11-22.html
Response
to Who Killed Homer? Arion
, third series, 7.2 (fall 1999) 181-184.
"Groping
in the Closet: Response to Walker's 'This Peculiar Acuteness of
Feeling'".Borneo Research Bulletin. 1998
(vol. 29) pp. 203-208.
"The
Bow in the Groves of India," Arion
, third series 5.1,
(spring/summer 1997) 130-142.
Review of Spenser St. John,The
Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak
. [Reprint with an
introduction by
R.H.W. Reece, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1994] in Borneo
Research Bulletin ,
vol 27 (1996), 159-162.
Review of James Ritchie, Bruno
Manser:
The Inside Story
. [Summer Times, Singapore, 1994] in Borneo Research Bulletin , vol 27 (1996), 162-166.
"A
Distant Music" review of Martin L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford University Press) Arion third series, 4.3 (winter
1997)
223-236.
"Bow
and Arrow in the Groves of Ind" with Michael A. B. Deakin. Function , vol. 21 part 1 (February
1997)
"Under
the Toga" Times Literary Supplement ,
no. 4715, 13 August 1993
(Letters).
"The loincloth of Borneo." Sarawak Museum Journal, vol.
xlii, no. 63 (new
series), Dec.
1991, pp. 43-59, ills.
"Satyrs and the People
With
Tails: a possible
reference to Borneo in Ptolemy's Geography?" Sarawak
Gazette . vol. cxviii, no. 1517,
Sept. 1991,
pp. 29-32.
"The
Borneo Literature Bureau: publications in Iban and other Bornean
languages: a
bibilography." in Borneo Research Bulletin , v. 22, #2, Sept. 1990,
pp. 114-129.
"The
'palang' and Kˆ¢masˆªtra
7.2.14-24" in Purba, the Journal of the Malaysian Museum Society. 9/1990, pp. 67-72.
"Bacchius
Geron's Introduction
to the art of music" [an
annotated translation and textual study of
this
4th. c. A.D. theorist.] in Journal of Music Theory
, fall 1985, pp.
271-298.
CO-AUTHORSHIPS
IN ACADEMIC PAPERS
Lokman H. Hassan,
M. Moghavvemi, Haider A. F. Almurib, Otto Steinmayer. "Current state of neural networks applications
in power system monitoring and control." International Journal of Electrical
Power & Energy Systems, vol 51 (October 2013), 134-144.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2013.03.007
Lokman H. Hassan, M. Moghavvemi, Haider A.F.
Almurib, Otto Steinmayer. "Application of genetic algorithm in
optimization of unified power flow controller parameters and its
location in the power system network." The
International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems. 46
(March 2013) 89–97.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2012.10.011
"Violence: Finding
Peace." Science, 327: vol. 338, 19 October 2012. Geoffrey
Benjamin, Robert K. Dentan, Charles Macdonald, Kirk M. Endicott, Otto
Steinmayer, Barbara S. Nowak. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6105/327.1.full?sid=7baf815a-231f-484f-b121-7d1929524dc1
LITERARY
JOURNALISM
Column:
"Classic
Ground." The New Straits Times.
- 7 Aug 1991: "Fresh from the morning
of
the world."
[Introductory; Ptolemy on Malaya]
- 21 Aug 1991: "Love, death, and
everything."
[the Greek Anthology]
- 4 Sept 1991: "The best of the
Akhaians." [Homer, Iliad .]
- 18 Sept 1991: "Seascape with monsters." [Homer, Odyssey .]
- 2 Oct 1991: "In the beginning was
the
word."
[Sanskrit poetry.]
- 16 Oct 1991: "The music may be gone
but
the words live on." [lyric poetry]
- 30 Oct 1991: "One good reason to
learn
Latin."
[Roman poetry, Catullus]
- 13 Nov 1991: "The goat-winning
tragedies
of Aeschylus." [Aeschylus]
- 27 Nov 1991: "Finding a common poetic
language."
[Chinese poetry]
- 11 Dec 1991: "The ancient art of
'painting white black.'" [rhetoric]
- 25 Dec 1991: "History and the disease
called politics." [Thucydides]
- 8 Jan 1992: "The Greeks and their
gods." [ancient religion.]
- 22 Jan 1992: "Crossing the barriers
between the past and us." [general
reflections on
the appreciation of the past]
- 19 Feb 1992: "Time and the rhythms of
life and literature." [differing perceptions
of
time in temperate and tropical area poetry.]
- 4 Mar 1992: "Fables tell us what
life
is really like." [Aesop]
- 18 March 1992:"The
alternative to
prettified words." [ancient prose.]
- 1 Apr 1992: "Feast of funnies from
the
ancients."
[strange stories]
- 15 Apr 1992: "Feelings of the past by
post."
[letters]
- 29 Apr 1992: "The best things of life
to
the Greeks."
[general, on the act of writing, and culture.]
- 13 May 1992: "The pity and terror of
a
great tragedy." [Sophocles, Oedipus
the King .]
- 27 May 1992: "Sweet and bitter are
the
uses of satire."
- 10 June 1992: "The curling tendrils of
Dayak poetry."
- 24 June 1992: "The beginnings of
nature
poetry."
[pastoral]
- 8 July 1992: "National Literature a
long
time coming."
[the concept of "national language and literature in antiquity]
- 22 July 1992: "Socrates' search for
the
Good in life." [Socrates, life and
ethical philosophy.]
- 5 Aug 1992: "The most tragic of the
poets."
[Euripides]
- 19 Aug 1992: "The King of Old Comedy." [Aristophanes]
- 2 Sept 1992: "Learning life's whys
and
hows through literature." [poetry; Plutarch On
the Daimon of Sokrates. final column.]
Book
reviews,
also in The
New Straits Times , and New Sunday Times .
- 10 Apr 1991: "Anti-historical
novel of unrelieved misery." Charles
Palliser, The
quincunx .
- 31 May 1991: "An insight into Brooke's
raj." Henry
Keppel, The expedition to Borneo of HMS Dido.
- 24 July 1991: "It's love that will make
the world go on." Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful
monsters .
[novel]
- 28 July 1991: "Hollywood hacks and
schmucks."
Ian Hamilton, Writers in Hollywood.
- 11 Aug 1991: "Their majesties' 'secret
histories.'"
Elizabeth Longford, The Oxford book of royal anecdotes.
- 23 Aug 1991: "The
future as we will suffer it." Alvin Toffler, Powershift .
- 28 Aug 1991: "Seven
of the best from Argentina." Raul Galvez, From
the
ashen land of the virgin: conversations with Bioy Casares, Borges,
Deveni, Etchecopar, Ocampo, Orozco, Sabato in Argentina.
- 30 October
1991: "Marquez makes history into
magic."
Gabriel Garcˆ‚a Mˆ°rquez, The General in his Labyrinth. Penguin.
- 28 December
1991: "The best
reads of the year" Gabriel Garcˆ‚a Mˆ°rquez, The General in his
Labyrinth.
Penguin.
- 15 Feb 1992: "Continuity
and kinks, from Mosley's point of view."
Nicholas Mosley, Imago
Bird.
[novel]
- 1 Mar 1992: "Thanks for these reprints." William O. Krohn, In
Borneo jungles , and Carl Lumholz, Through
central Borneo.
- 29 Mar 1992: "The
master of pun and fun." S.J. Perelman, The
most of S.J. Perelman.
- 11 Apr 1992: "Quantum leap
for the
'experimental' novel." Nicholas Mosley, Catastrophe
practice
and Judith .
- 2 May 1992: "Wrong views of the
Balinese corrected." Gordon D. Jensen and Luh
Ketut Suryani, The Balinese people: a reinvestigation of character. OUP
- 13 June 1992: "History as it should be
written."
Graham Saunders, Bishops and Brookes: the anglican mission and the
Brooke raj in Sarawak 1848-1941. OUP
- 15 August
1992: "Early
Sarawak sketched with style and sensibility."
Harriette McDougall, Sketches
of our life in Sarawak, OUP
- 2 January
1993: "More best
reads of 1993." Brian Vickers, Bali, a Paradise Created. Periplus.
- 3 April 1993 [Business
Times ] "A
guide to state of local arts in the 80s." Kee
Thuan Chye, just
in so many words. Heinmann.
- 24 April 1993:
"In search
of the monkey with the big snout." David MacDonald, Expedition to
Borneo . S.
Abdul Majeed.
- 8 May 1993: "Borneo before good
human
things got lost." Victor King, comp. and
ed., The Best of Borneo Travel . OUP.
- 15 May 1993: "A major 'event' in Borneo
studies."
Charles Hose, The Pagan Tribes of Borneo. OUP.
- 25 Sept 1993: "OCD
is OK but is it VFM?" The Oxford
Dictionary
of Abbreviations.
- 4 Dec 1993: "Post-modern satire on
real
life."
Malcolm Bradbury, Doctor Criminale .
Penguin.
- 22 Jan 1994: "Borneo before the deluge." Eric Hansen, Stranger
in the Forest.
- 19 Feb 1994: "Hornaday's
hunt."
William T. Hornaday, The Experiences of a Naturalist in the Malay
Peninsula and Borneo.
- 5 March 1994: "Photos
say it all for
Borneo's living beauty." Max Lawrence and
Paul
Chai, Borneo Alive.
- 21 May 1994: "Antiquity
for the Common Reader." John Boardman et a;.,The
Oxford History of the Classical World.
- 30 July 1994: "Iban way to cope with
change."
Peter M. Kedit, Iban Bejalai .
- 29 Oct 1994: "Ritchie's
ragout." James Ritchie, Bruno
Manser: The Inside Story .
- 8 April 1995: "One of the noblest of men." Spenser St. John, The
Life of Sir James Brooke.
- 12 April 1995:
"Poets, by
all means get worked up." Letter to editor, Literary Page.
- 13 May 1995: "Great guide to paradise." Adrian Vickers, Travelling
to Bali.
- 30 Aug 1995: "Tough act following a
tougher one."
Joseph Heller, Closing Time.
- 18 January
1996: "Elegy in
memory of the late judge Eustoffe." [English translation]
- 8 February
1996: "Elegiac
verse to the memory of the ex-judge". [Latin text]
- 28 April 1996:
"In defence
of Abdullah Hussain." Letter to editor, Literary Page.
- 22 Oct 1996:
"Understanding
the middle voice."
- 16 Nov 1996: "Chances are you will like
this book."
Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: the Remarkable Story of Risk.
- 11 Jan 1997: "Truth duller than fiction." Robert M. Gates, From
the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How
They Won the Cold War.
- 8 March 1997: "Getting
a grip on shadow play." David Irvine, Leather
Gods and Wooden Heroes: Java's Classical Wayang.
- 26 April 1997:"The
best book on the subject." Robin Baker, Sperm
Wars: the Science of Sex.
- 2 August 1997:"Postcards
from the past." Rajah Brooke's Borneo .
- 9 August 1997:"Dyeing
that's certainly not dead." Kim Jane
Saunders, Contemporary
Tie and Dye Textiles of Indonesia.
- 1 April 1998:
"Charged with
grand larceny." Poking a little fun at Amir Muhammad.
- 3 Februaru
1999: "Poignant
and panoramic." Bob Reece, Masa Jepun:
Sarawak under the Japanese, 1941-1945.
- 19 January
2000: "Burma:
Suffering is part
of life."
Rory Maclean, Under the Dragon: Travels in a Betrayed Land.
- 31 May 2000: "Champion
of Iban self-sufficiency." Vernon L. Poritt, Bapak
Guru Orang Bisaya, A Pioneer in Social Experimentation in Sarawak: Ro
Bewsher,1910-1998.
- 9 August 2000:"The
Most Offending Soul
Alive."
Judith M. Heimann, The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson
and
his Remarkable Life. New Reality , vol 3. no. 3 (May/June
2000), 8.
- 7 January
2001: "Useful and
beautiful." Heidi Munan, Sarawak
Crafts: methods, materials, and motifs.
- 7 March 2001: "The Orang Asli as they
really are."
Colin Nicholas, The Orang Asli and the Contest for Resources:
Indigenous Politics, Development and Identity in Peninsular Malaysia.
- 1 April 2001: " Dennis Lau--images that
capture the soul." Dennis Lau, Borneo: a
Photographic Journey.
Translation
- Iban
interviews for Bob
Reece's Masa Jepun. Sarawak
Literary
Society, 1998.
- Hugo
Lindschooten's India
Orientalis
[translations of this and other 16th century neo-Latin texts relative
to Malacca and other parts of of Southeast Asia, by Houtman, and the
brothers De Bry], work for Antiques of the Orient Pte Ltd, Singapore.
- Specialized
neo-Latin
texts: musical, historical, and alchemical.
Editing
- Vincent Foo, History
of
the Sarawak Steamship Company, Kuching,
2001.
- Bruno Manser, Voices
from the Rainforest. Bruno Manser
Funds and
Institute for Social Analysis, Kuala Lumpur, 1996.
Texts
and other
resources created and posted by me on the internet
Jaap
Schröder On-Line Discography
(prepared in cooperation with Mr. Schröder). http://www.ikanlundu.com/schroederdiscography.html