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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 40 No. 4, David Baker, Kh Barron, Edward E. Boccia, William Borden, J. V. Brummels, Dan Campion, Michael Castro, Paul Christensen, Allison Adelle, Hedge Coke, Robert Cooperman, Maureen Micus Crisick, Mary Crow, Philip Dacey, David Dale, Bryan D. Dietrich, Gene Doty, James Doyle, Jean Dubois, Martha Elizabeth, Jeanne Emmons, Sybil Pittman Estess, Don Finkel, Steve Gehrke, Mark Gibbons, Vicki Graham, Carol Hamilton, Pamela Harrison, Margaret Hasse, Michael Hathaway, Susan Carol Hauser, Michael Heffernan, Philip Heldrich, Frank Higgins, Jonathan Holden, Richard D. Houff, Joseph Hutchison, Mark Irwin, Louis Jenkins, Ted Kooser, Steve Langan, Rustin Larson, Roseann Lloyd, Adrian C. Louis, Mary Mcanally, Janet Mccann, Walt Mcdonald, Freya Manfred, Jack Martin, Edward Micus, John Minczeski, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, George Moore, Sheryl L. Nelms, Kathleen Norris, Michael Paul Novak, Christina Pacosz, Michelle Paulsen, David Pink, Naomi Rachel, David Ray, Judy Ray, Pattiann Rogers, Mark Sanders, Andrew Schelling, Howard Schwartz, Roger Sheffer, William Sheldon, Majorie Stelmach, Francine Sterle, Robert Stewart, Ann Struthers, Richard Terrill, Jim Thomas, Larry D. Thomas, Eamonn Wall, Morrie Warshawski, Laura Lee Washburn, Jane O. Wayne, Kathleene West, Steve Wilson, Jeff Worley, Charles Cagle, Richard Holinger, Anita Chancey, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

THE GREAT PLAINS POETS Profiles of the poets assembled for this special issue appear in connection with their work Available following the work of each author is information about the poet's professional career and a statement of philosophy.

CHARLES CAGLE, an award-winning creative writer, is Professor of English at Pittsburg State University. In the broader Pittsburg community, he played an active role in the Stilwell Hotel restoration project. His lecture on the life of Arthur Stilwell was printed and used to raise funds for the project.

RICHARD HOLINGER teaches English at Marmion Academy in Aurora, Illinois. His short fiction appears …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 40 No. 3, Robert Wexelblatt, Manfred Weidhorn, James A. Papa Jr., Steve Wilson, Arthur Sherr, Ron Klier, Michele Bowman, Rick Cannon, Craig Challender, Philip Dacey, Nickie J. Gunstrom, William Kloefkorn, Kip Knott, Deborah Landau, Martin Ott, David L. Roberts, Randolph Thomas, Steven Trulock, Bob Vance, Ken Waldman, Sara Willingham, Charles Cagle, Keith L. Mccoy, Harry L. Humphries, Ronald Charles Epstein, Paul W. Zagorski, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

ROBERT WEXELBLATT explores the art of teaching by considering both the ideal and its impact and appreciation by its recipients and those who would exercise authority over teachers. He reaches the uneasy conclusion that true teaching is a precarious balance, less a golden mean in delivery but in outcome, the sum of extremes. Award-winning author of essays and books of fiction, Wexelblatt is a Professor of Humanities at Boston University's College of General Studies. His numerous essays in this journal testify that he is, above all else, a teacher.

MANFRED WEIDHORN traces the concept of motive--Can we know those affecting …

Ivy Leaves, 1998-1999, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1999 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Asa Moran, Christopher Fyock, Jennifer Brown, Andy Burleson, Brian Gaines, David Parker, Emily Reese, Jill Roberts, Heather Rollins, Jeanna Simmons, Susan Wooten, and Wayne Cox. Cover art by Jill Roberts.

Nexus, Winter 1999, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

What Is Critical Literacy?, Ira Shor

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

We are what we say and do. The way we speak and are spoken to help shape us into the people we become. Through words and other actions, we build ourselves in a world that is building us. That world addresses us to produce the different identities we carry forward in life: men are addressed differently than are women, people of color differently than whites, elite students differently than those from working families. Yet, though language is fateful in teaching us what kind of people to become and what kind of society to make, discourse is not destiny. We can …

Born And Made: Sisters, Brothers, And The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

We are--almost all--born into families, born into relationship. Like Mary Ann Evans, I was born a little sister--but had I encountered her "Brother and Sister" sonnets at twelve, I might have thrown the book across the room. George Eliot's fantasy of a perfected brother-sister relationship in these sonnets rings hollow and yet resonates profoundly with me. As a little sister myself, I wonder what could make the relationship--so often fraught with competition, envy, and neglect, yet potentially so richly rewarding--seem so powerfully right, so important to and adult woman's self-identification? For the narrator of the sonnets is certainly an adult …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 40 No. 2, Bob J. Frye, John G. Rodden, Martine Delavaux, Mark W. Crilly, Wayne Hanley, James A. Papa Jr., Priscilla Atkins, Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, Rick Cannon, Carol Hamilton, William Kloefkorn, Elva Lauter, Lyn Lifshin, Peter Ludwin, Walt Mcdonald, Mark Sanders, Steven Sherill, Lauren Smith, Michael Spring, Susan Terris, Bob Vance, Mark J. Peterson, Ronald Charles Epstein, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

BOB J. FRY beckons readers to look beyond the friendly, folksy Garrison Keillor so many have seen in Lake Wobegon Days to glimpse the satire, both gentle and biting, that Keillor offers. Professor of English at Texas Christian University, editor of a book of critical essays on John Dryden's satire, Mac Flecknoe, and author of articles which have appeared in a number of journals, he has twice received teaching awards during his thirty years at TCU, including most recently the Piper Professor Award in 1994 given to just ten Texas educators annually honoring significant contributions in teaching.

JOHN G. RODDEN …

Plastic Pebbles, Virginie H. Mitchem

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 40 No. 1, Duane R. Carr, Catherine Cowen Olson, John Rodden, Michael C. C. Adams, Peter Donahue, Jerold Waltman, James Scofield, Corrine De Winter, Jim Thomas, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

DUANE R. CARR critiques the redneck stereotypes who populate the fiction of Cormac McCarthy as poorly developed grotesques providing little wisdom and much contempt for backcountry folk. Currently Adjunct Professor at Western Kentucky University, Carr has published articles on Steinbeck, Albee, Joyce, and Glasgow. The present article is drawn from a broader survey published as A Question of Class: The Redneck Stereotype in Southern Literature.

CATHERINE COWEN OLSON explores Jane Smiley's use of the food characters prepare and eat in A Thousand Acres to expose their feelings and intentions. A teacher of English at Kingwood College in Houston, Texas, she …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 39 No. 4, Thomas Matchie, Elvira Bennet, Stuart Noble-Goodman, Darren J. N. Middleton, Kevin Walzer, Sanford Pinsker, David Lee, Jeanne E. Clark, Susan Ludvigson, Roland Sodowsky, Ronald Charles Epstein, Barbara Lerma, Joanna Weber, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

THOMAS MATCHIE explores a spirituality rooted in goodness, an affirmation of faith and community across the fissures which sometimes separate us, not one expressed in cults, cant, and combat boots, as revealed in four novels set in the Midwest. Professor of English at North Dakota State University in Fargo, Matchie teaches American literature, including midwestem and multicultural authors. He has published numerous articles on the Great Plains, including works by Louise Erdrich, Thomas McGrath, and Lois Hudson. Interested in political issues, he has also served in the North Dakota Senate.

ELVIRA BENNET finds Franz Kafka equally conflicted when confronting women …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 39 No. 3, Victoria Wodzak, A. James Wohlpart, B. H. Gilley, Mathew Miller, Arthur Scheer, Nancy Clasby, Laura Lee Washburn, Priscilla Atkins, Eric Gardner, Kim Horner, Michael Hudson, Gary Lechliter, Robert Lee, Susan Marshall, Dennis Saleh, James Scofield, Lauren Smith, Ronald Wallace, Adonna Zordel Helmig, Kenneth Robbins, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

VICTORIA WODZAK elegantly limns the distance, interaction, and tension between warriors and weavers, the heroic code and the domestic code, in classical epics, notably those of Homer and Beowulf. Wodzak is a Ph.D. candidate in the English program of the University of Missouri-Columbia, teaches composition for that Department, and not least is the mother of seven children, ages one to sixteen, to whom she attributes at least part of the inspiration for her essay. This is her first published scholarly work.

A. JAMES WOHLPART discusses the deft use Mary Shelley made of Frankenstein to comment on the isolation of …

Nexus, Spring 1998, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Nexus, Winter 1998, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Ivy Leaves, 1997-1998, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1998 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Jennifer Brown, Shane Bruce, Sharon Felder, Kellie Bates, Clay Bolt, Tiffany Clark, Jon Martin, Ben McDonald, Amber Schiltz, Jeremy Shirley, Chase Stone, Susan Wooten, and Wayne Cox. Cover photography by Ben McDonald and design by Clay Bolt and Jeremy Shirley.

Graduate Bulletin, 1998-2000 (1998), Moorhead State University

Graduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

No abstract provided.

On Their Own: Female Correspondents In Vietnam, Joyce Hoffmann

English Faculty Publications

Women went to Vietnam as war correspondents in unprecedented numbers in the 1960s and early 1970s. A combination of intellectual curiosity, professional longings to be at the center of a big story and a simple lust for adventure drew women to the jungles of Southeast Asia, just as those same urges had long drawn men to the spectacle of war. For a decade and a half, women begged, cajoled or simply paid their own way to Vietnam. Together they transformed the role of women as war correspondents from an aberration to a norm. But very few of them were acknowledged …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 39 No. 2, Edward M. Griffin, Jessica B. Teisch, William Young, Edward Recchia, David Wright, Robert Lee Mahon, K. H. Barron, Adam Brooke Davis, Christine Delea, Twyla Hansen, Steve Kirchhoff, Errol Miller, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Linda Roth, Tom Sexton, Kathleen Spivack, Susan Terris, Susan Thomas, Fileman Waitts, Steve Wilson, Samuel J. Umland, Richard Holinger, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

There is no escaping the mentality--or the burden--of e pluribus unum, writes EDWARD M. GRIFFIN, whether there is a oneness or a plural character to being an American or another notion entirely of what kind of people our multicultural backgrounds have fashioned. Whether national policy or educational philosophy, this concept, these concepts, must be confronted. Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Griffin has written widely on such colonial figures as Jonathan Edwards and Charles Chauncy, and he has recently turned his attention to the American poet/playwrights Robert Lowell and William Alfred.

JESSICA B. TEISCH examines the story …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 39 No. 1, John Churchill, John G. Rodden, Arthur A. Molitierno, James Najarian, Mordecai Roshwald, Abraham Fox, Jim Thomas, Tom Sexton, Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb, Linda Roth, Rick Perry, Sylvan Moe, Janet Mccann, Peter Markus, Lyn Lifshin, William Kloefkorn, John Kennedy, Jeff Halbert, Daniel Gutstein, Rachel Dacus, D. S. Butterworth, David D. Cooper, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

JOHN CHURCHILL argues that only by providing "exemplars—cases of fit and base behavior in history, fiction, and other fields, narratives of situations and problem-confrontation in which the possible challenges of human life are exhibited and some possible resolutions held up for consideration," can those who would learn deliberate upon and apply abstract principles, and that this is the essence of a liberal education. Along the way Churchill confronts the issue of what is meant by rational argumentation. Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the College, at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, Churchill sums up his many publications, including two …

Nexus, Fall 1997, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

My Psychologist, My Psychiatrist, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

I could not distinguish between them except by what we did. I was ten, then eleven. I would not ride the school bus. I always slunk home saying I missed it. I made my mother come to school with me every day, and sit in the lobby so I could wave to her during recess and class changes. In the evenings my father would come home from work, hear my mother's report, and storm upstairs, his weight pounding on the hardwood steps. I would be out of breath with crying, my head in the pillow, waiting to feel what he …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 38 No. 4, Sonya Yvette Alvarado, Fred Madden, Tom Hansen, Gorman Beauchamp, Sandra M. Guy, Kevin Bezner, Jeanne Murray Walker, David D. Cooper, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

SONYA YVETTE ALVARADO shows the similarities between Owen Wister's Em'ly and Dolly, a hen and a schoolmarm characterized as unnatural for their independence and rejection of motherhood, and the women in Ken's Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, a collection of castrating wives and nurses. Author of an article on David Mamet's "Glengarry Glenn Ross," Alvarado is currently a doctoral student in the Department of English at Texas Tech University, where she teaches Studies in Dramatic Literature, and is researching the use of computers and the Internet as tools in teaching literature.

FRED MADDEN contends that the influence …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 38 No. 3, Steven Vincent, Richard Teleky, Maureen Ryan, Leona M. Dillard, Stacie Lynn Hankinson, Susan M. Matarese, Paul G. Salmon, Laura Bernstein, Laurie Blauner, Susan Clarke, Lenny Dellarocca, Kate Funkhouser, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Therése Halscheid, John D. Hamilton, Thomas Heise, Matthew S. Lapierre, James S. Proffitt, Aurora Reynoso, Mark Rubin, Mark Schimmoeller, Sara Sproles, James M. Boehnlein, Charles Cagle, Walter Shear, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

STEVEN VINCENT describes his attempt to come to terms with what he has seen in the killing fields of Cambodia, monuments to the Khmer Rouge's systematic destruction of Cambodians who had known or imagined life other than the rural peasant ideal their bloody torturers and murderers envisioned, even if this means not coming to terms with it at all but to accept its unacceptability, not to rationalize the irrational. Currently the senior writer for Art & Auction magazine where he writes about the international art world, and specifically the art market, he also contributes regularly to the Antique Collector, an …

Nexus, Spring 1997, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Ivy Leaves, 1996-1997, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1997 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Shawn Elliott, Misti Fuller, Kelli Holzer, Stephanie Nichols, April Price, Darren Rambo, Sherrell Crawford, Sharon Felder, Jason Manuel, Daryl McCard, John Woodson, Wayne Cox, and Susan Wooten.

Crossing Boundaries: Land And Sea In Jane Austen's 'Persuasion', Laura Vorachek

English Faculty Publications

Jane Austen suggests in Persuasion the pressures that the increased mobility of the middle class placed on the established aristocratic society in her time. Anne Elliot especially brings to light the inherited assumptions of her society. She can marry within her social rank (Mr. Elliot or Charles Musgrove) or marry below her (Wentworth at age 23), but either is a choice within the limits established by her society. One owns land or one does not. But when Wentworth returns a man of name and wealth, he is not a member of the landed gentry nor is he below Anne in …

Nexus, Winter 1997, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Journal Of Pedagogy, Pluralism And Practice, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 1997 (Full Issue), Journal Staff

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

This issue of the Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice is dedicated to the memory of Paulo Freire who died on May 2, 1997 at the age of 75. Paulo Freire is the author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, The Politics of Education, Pedagogy of the City, Pedagogy of Hope and many other books that have created a radical discourse on liberatory education and have influenced teachers, theorists and cultural workers throughout the world. His last book, Pedagogia da Autonomia: Saberes necessários à prática educativa, is not yet translated in English, but is expected soon, possibly …

Journal Of Pedagogy, Pluralism And Practice, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1997 (Full Issue), Journal Staff

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 38 No. 2, Donald Wayne Viney, John E. Atwell, Matthew K. Samra, John Howard Wilson, Avise Nissen, Janice L. Nerger, Wayne Viney, Robert G. Riedel Ii, William Aiken, Michael Carey, Philip Dacey, Ivy Dempsey, Constance Egemo, Ted Genoways, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Gray Jacobik, Nicole Orr, Jack Martin, Michael Pegausch, Barry Sternlieb, Steve Wilson, Bonnie Young, Charles Cagle, Richard Holinger, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

DONALD WAYNE VINEY offers convincing examples that far from being the dour, unsmiling figure often presented of Christ, He exhibited a full range of emotions, including humor upon occasion. Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University, Viney is author of Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God (1985), A Philosopher Looks at the Bible (1992), and several articles in the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He is also a member of Midwest Quarterly's Board of Editors.

JOHN E. ATWELL examines the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer and finds his views on women more complex than the common portrayal of the …

Hunger Unpublished, Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Articles and Research

How Mark Axelrod lined up some of the world’s finest writers on one of the world’s biggest issues – and still couldn’t get them into print.