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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 4, William O'Neill, A. Carl Bredahl, Thomas Lavassi, Susan L. Roberson, Michael Ponsford, Fred Madden, Baloian, Sandra Berris, Michael Burns, Celia Daniels, Zoe Filipkowski, Russell T. Fowler, Diane Glancy, David Kerner, Hillary Lyon, Stephen Meats, Carolann Russell, Darrel G. H. Schramm, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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That James Joyce was concerned that his audience understood Bloom and Stephen were going about lives matched with Ulysses and Telemachus has become clear, but his purpose in doing so is the subject of WILLIAM O'NEILL. Author of short stories, reviews, and an article on Yeats in this journal, O'Neill teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

A. CARL BREDAHL develops Sherwood Anderson's alternative to the novel form, a "divided narrative," by examining Winesburg, Ohio. With numerous publications on writers as diverse as Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Harold Frederic, John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, and …

Risd Voice April 1, 1986, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 1, 1986, includes articles on a recent lecture by Jack Beal criticizing non-representational art, late night activities in Providence, and a prostitution sting operation at Brown, along with editorials, illustrations, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 3, Mark Christhilf, Thomas R. Vale, Geraldine R. Vale, Edward L. Galligan, James Barbour, William C. Dowling, Charles M. Redenius, Matthew Melko, Lola Haskins, Regan Good, Ruth Good, Thom Tammaro, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Wishing to help us see what his words suggest, the poet struggles to give expression to images. W. S. Merwin, explains MARK CHRISTHILF, makes use of the work of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, among other painters, in bringing to his readers an understanding of what Merwin's generous eye beheld. Poet and critic, Christhilf teaches English at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. He has poetry in Karamu, and is writing a book entitled, W. S. Merwin the Mythmaker.

LOLA HASKINS lives on a ranch north of Gainesville Florida and teaches computer science classes at the …

Risd Voice March 1, 1986, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 1, 1986, includes articles on divesting from South Africa and a Koko Taylor concert, along with letters to the editor about the new RISD Voice mission and issues with the RISD Library, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice January 18, 1986, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 18, 1986, includes articles on the Rhode Island Public Interest Research Group and new theater performances at Brown, along with a letter to the editor about the RISD Library, an excerpt from Baroness Karen Blixen's memoirs, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 2, John C. Burnham, Robert M. Khoury, Judith A. Spector, Leslie M. Thompson, Robert Wexelblatt, Pierre Papazian, Donald E. Secrest, Lucile Blanchard, Kelly Cherry, Martha Collins, Malcolm Glass, Robert Harlow, Duane Locke, George Looney, Naomi Shihab Nye, Cynthia S. Pederson, Jim Thomas, Kathleen Spivack, James Armstrong, Stephen Meats, Paul W. Zagorski, Philip Paradis, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

Playing JOHN C. BURNHAM's new parlor game, "Who Is Now Great?” unexpectedly forms a negative consensus: the great men and women, like the dinosaurs, seem to belong to an earlier time, not to our own. The author wonders why, and shares his thoughts on the past, present, and future of greatness. Professor of History at The Ohio State University, with a scholarly interest in the history of psychiatry and American medical and social history, Burnham' s most recent book is on the psychoanalyst and physician Jelliffe.

ROBERT M. KHOURY and JUDITH A. SPECTOR explore the …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 1, Virginia J. Laas, Mark A. Plummer, Jeffery A. Hughey, Robert K. Ratzlaff, A. J. Shakeshaft, Stuart Friebert, Julie S. Hughes, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The waters of historical research abound with shoals, whirlpools, and uncharted, if not unimportant, wastes. VIRGINIA J. LAAS relates one such encounter on a voyage of discovery related to the biography of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee she undertook with Dudley T. Cornish, a successful and altogether fortuitous collaboration which benefitted both scholars and their profession. The book which resulted, entitled The Life of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, U.S. Navy, will be published in early 1986 by The University Press of Kansas. The marriage in 1843 of the young naval officer, then a Lieutenant …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 4, Jonathan Rose, Susan L. Carlson, Gregory Waters, Ellen Williamson Kanervo, Richard M. Gardner, Jack D'Amico, Linda Walvoord Girard, Michael Burns, George Gott, Art Homer, Ben Howard, Ernest Kroll, Lolette Kuby, Laurie Sheck, Philip Raisor, Gary A. Schrag, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

The man who created the child-spies of 1984, JONATHAN ROSE makes clear in his examination of George Orwell, was a writer filled with nostalgia for childhood. Assistant Professor of History at Drew University in New Jersey, Rose has recently completed a book-length manuscript on the intellectual history of Edwardian Britain and hopes to launch a scholarly journal devoted to the life and works of George Orwell.

Though current society has distanced them from us, the women of Edwardian problem plays, argues SUSAN L. CARLSON, do have something to tell us about our own social …

Risd Voice May 22, 1985, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 22, 1985, includes articles on the resignation of Al Wunderlich and the future of the Painting department, the resignation of Tom Ewens from Liberal Arts, the Student Board, VE/Memorial Day, a student trip to Morocco, the embargo on Nicaragua, and rock and roll band The Cramps, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice April 26, 1985, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 26, 1985, includes articles on Freshman Foundation professor Lee Dajasu, alternative school School One in Providence, a lecture on toxic effects of art materials and precautions, and a new album by The Sisters of Mercy, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 3, Paul J. Muenzer, Hugh Fox, Ernest Gallo, Charles Guzzetta, Thomas D. Isern, Francis Edward Devine, Michael Heffernan, Lex Runciman, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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PAUL J. MUENZER presents a translation of the Minoan Phaistos Disk--a supplication for oracular wisdom from the prophet-king. Turning from a career as an electronics engineer, Muenzer became first a technical writer and for the last decade an archaeologist specializing in deciphering Linear A and Linear B texts. He lives and writes in Munich.

HUGH FOX conjures up a living, mythic, unified world of our cultural past in which Old World and New coexist and share a common reality. Author of over fifty books of poetry, criticism, fiction, plays, and Latin American scholarship, among …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 2, John A. Mills, William C. Pratt, Angela Hague, Clayton Koelb, Edward L. Galligan, John Churchill, Michael Heffernan, John Stone, Brendan Galvin, Gordon D. Marino, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JOHN A. MILLS finds in The Time of Your Life an absurdist meaning lurking below the surface vision of pleasant typicality. Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Mills has written several articles and a book, Hamlet on Stage: The Great Tradition, on the theater.

WILLIAM C. PRATT dissects the roles of the intellectual in contemporary society and finds merit still in that calling. Pratt is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His scholarly interest in the American left and farmer and labor movements has resulted in several …

Risd Voice November 7, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 7, 1984, includes an interview with President Thomas Schutte, Halloween costume awards including Most Original for Brian Selznick, a sports column, editorials, comics, news articles, and advertisements.

Risd Voice October 24, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 24, 1984, includes articles on Director of the Academic Computer Center Sean Keating, a new advocacy group Architects for Social Responsibility, Brown students' perceptions of RISD students, freshmen at RISD, and an upcoming concert by David Van Tieghem, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 1, Otis C. Mitchell, James Tice Moore, David Lloyd Jones, Haig Bosmajian, Judith A. Spector, David W. Pitre, Ralph Burns, Paul Hamill, Michael Heffernan, Ben Howard, Stephen Meats, Eric Pankey, Stephen J. Teller, Richard D. Fulton, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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OTIS C. MITCHELL traces the rise of the desperado in Hungary and Italy in the bitter denouement of World War I. With extensive publications in the history of Nazism and totalarianism, Mitchell is author of Hitler Over Germany and editor of Nazism and the Common Man. He is Professor of History and Head of the Department at the University of Cincinnati.

JAMES TICE MOORE focuses on King Vidor's assertion of rural values and collective agriculture in his 1930s film, Our Daily Bread. Chairman and Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Moore has published …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 4, Anthony Channell Hilfer, Richard Dillman, Michael Gillum, Richard Nickson, Peter Scheckner, Abby Arthur Johnson, J. V. Brummels, Michael A. Carey, David Etter, Sam Hamill, Jaan Kaplinski, Mark Vinz, Judith G. Shaw, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

ANTHONY CHANNELL HILFER pursues Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith' s faceless, sinister character, and finds him both other-directed and protean. Author of The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction and The Revolt from the Village, as well as articles on popular culture and criticism, Hilfer is Professor of English at the University of Texas in Austin. For the past year he has served as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Lancaster in England.

RICHARD DILLMAN suggests that Willa Cather fashioned Tom Outland more after the Transcendentalist ideal developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson than as …

Risd Voice May 2, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 2, 1984, includes articles on commencement, the Graduation Ball, the termination of Phil Bailey, the transformation of a basketball court behind Farnum Hall to a parking lot, artist David Dickinson, Collection '84, Take-A-Break Weekend, Apparel Design department head Lorraine Howes, and a new production of "Crimes of the Heart" at Trinity Repertory Theatre, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice April 4, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 4, 1984, includes articles on the new Student Board, the termination of English Professor Phil Bailey, freshman life at RISD, Ireland, a book "Prejudice Against Nature," the RISD Museum, RISD life model Charlie, Providence restuarant La Serre, and things to do around Providence, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 3, Peter Haley, Gorman Beauchamp, Susan M. Matarese, Paul G. Salmon, Alfred G. Killilea, Frederick R. Swan, Jennie M. Hornosty, David Lee, Susan Leigh Baughn, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The essence of Karl Marx's criticism of the modern world, argues PETER HALEY, rests more on ethics than economics. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, Haley has investigated the charisma concept in Weber and some of his precursors.

Theocracy, whether championed by a Solzhenitsyn or a Jerry Falwell, says GORMAN BEAUCHAMP, is fundamentally antidemocratic. Author of numerous articles on utopian fiction and of a recent book on Jack London, Beauchamp is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities in the College of Engineering at the University of …

Risd Voice March 21, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 21, 1984, includes articles on the potential forming of a Public Interest Research Group at RISD, the RISD Disarmament Group, the Student Board, and the Performing Arts Group at RISD, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice March 7, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 7, 1984, includes articles on issues of space at RISD, voting in the 1980 election, being Jewish at RISD, a new policy requiring a RISD ID to access buildings and the shuttle, RISD Culinary Arts students, and a documentary on Rhode Island Holocaust survivors by Mike Fink and Peter O'Neill, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice February 22, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated February 22, 1984, includes articles on student housing at RISD, a RISD Disarmament Group, security at RISD, space issues at the RISD library, artist Lee Dovidio, and things to do around Providence, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice February 8, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated February 8, 1984, includes articles on financial aid, the Tap Room, check cashing at local banks, a student internship preserving a historic house, RISD film/video department head Yvonne Anderson, a "Cloud 9" performance by Trinity Rep, living behind the Berlin Wall, Sam Shepard's play "Fool for Love," the Baha'i faith, computer programming, and a performing arts workshop, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice January 25, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 25, 1984, includes articles on registration issues during Wintersession, security issues at RISD, RISD Health Services, RISD chef Al Falk, the Student Activity Office, and the Nads, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 2, John E. Atwell, William V. Davis, John R. Clark, Anna Lydia Motto, Francis Donahue, Joyce Quiring Erickson, Steven Barza, J. W. Cullum, Charles Edward Eaton, Michael Heffernan, Tomas O'Leary, William Page, Edward Wilson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JOHN E. ATWELL explains Nietzsche's view that the dance expressed joy and represented belief in personal immortality. Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Atwell includes articles on Kant, Sartre, Schopenhauer, and Husserl among his publications.

Poet Robert Bly, according to WILLIAM V. DAVIS, has put new meaning and vigor into the prose poem, a development of historical significance to Bly and to American poetry. Currently Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Baylor University, Davis is a distinguished poet, is author also of criticism, short fiction, and the book, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, and …

Risd Voice October 27, 1983, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 27, 1983, includes articles on new RISD President Thomas Schutte's inauguration, the closing of the Lily Iselin Gallery on Wickenden St., the Dattoro art gallery, Residential Life Director Bob Sloss, a new cafe in Davol Square, a Mellon lecture by Christo, things to do around Providence, RISD hockey team the Nads, and a play "The Serpent," along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 1, Frank W. Shelton, Marcy S. Powell, Cheryl Herr, William O'Neill, Richard J. Voorhees, Mark Allister, Peter Cooley, Albert Goldbarth, David Lee, Harold Witt, Robert L. Sheverbush, Robert Wexelblatt, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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In the view of FRANK W. SHELTON, E. L. Doctorow's first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, like his later bestsellers, involves an examination of both the unreality and the persistence of the American Dream. Professor of English at Limestone College in South Carolina, Shelton has published numerous articles on modern fiction and drama.

MARCY S. POWELL recounts Thoreau's journeys and finds the denizen of Walden Pond a dedicated observer of America. A traveller of note himself, Powell was until his retirement in 1974 Chairman of the Department of French and Latin at Miami University in …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 4, Alicia Ostriker, Jonathan Holden, Robert A. Morace, Judith A. Sheffler, Robert Dana, Greg Kuzma, J. V. Brummels, Albert Goldbarth, Carolann Russell, Donald Junkins, John Stone, Sam Hamill, Eric Pankey, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

OUR SUMMER LITERARY NUMBER this year, under the acting editorship of Poetry Editor Michael Heffernan, is entirely devoted to contemporary American literature. Since two of our articles discuss works by Richard Hugo and John Gardner, both of whom died last fall, we would like to dedicate this issue to their memories. Requiescant.

ALICIA OSTRIKER edited the Complete Poems of William Blake from Penguin (1978). A collection of her critical essays, Writing like a Woman, has just appeared in the Michigan series of Poets on Poetry. Her most recent book of poems is A Woman under …

Risd Voice May 18, 1983, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 18, 1983, includes articles on RISD Apparel students' Collection '83, a new jewelry scholarship, a conversation between two RISD students, challenges the RISD Performing Arts Group faces, the comic strip "Nancy," an interview with comic strip duo Rat Factory, a retrospective exhibition at the museum on Professor Gilbert Franklin, and resignations around RISD, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice April 20, 1983, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 20, 1983, includes articles on the anniversary of the faculty strike and faculty member Mahler Ryder, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.