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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 2, Kelly Cherry, Adam Drozdek, Dan Vogel, Donald A. Crosby, Stephen Brockmann, James V. Mehl, Marcia Arrieta, Craig Challender, Philip Dacey, George Estreich, Carol Hamilton, Suzanne Keyworth, William Kloefkorn, Greg Kuzma, Lyn Lifshin, Mathew Murrey, Marjorie Saiser, Coreen Dwyer Wees, James W. Goodrich, Jo Mcdougall, Jared Carter

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Taking seriously C.P. Snow's mid-century caution that scientists and writers had increasingly little understanding of the other, KELLY CHERRY explains how she and other poets have reflected the scientific world. Author of ten books, including God's Loud Hand, a volume of poems to be published this year by Louisiana State University Press, Cherry is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

After Kurt Gödel's proof that no theory can completely explain a system, particularly one involving arithmetic, ADAM DROZDEK suggests, only the intellectually arrogant scientist can presume to understand the nature of humans. Yet many have tried in …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 1, Charles Hartshorne, Richard Moore, Patti Capel Swartz, Sanford Pinsker, Brian Conniff, Stephanie Demetrakopoulos, Deborah Athy, Jim Cihlar, Anne Colwell, George Gott, Douglas Gray, Michele Krueger, Rebecca A. Lilly, Linda Pennisi, Bruce Taylor, Charles Cagle, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Understanding God and that which is not divine has provoked philosophical extremes from the time of the Greeks to the present day. Philosopher CHARLES HARTSHORNE proposes a mathematical schema to sort out their differences and to establish a common ground for discussing deity and humanity. Author of twenty books and more than four hundred scholarly essays, Hartshorne, before his retirement, taught in ten universities, five in the United States and five abroad (Germany, Belgium, Australia, Japan, and India).

Bridging the gulf between the humanities and the sciences by relating the history and practice of art to the geometry of Euclid …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 4, D. G. Myers, Terry White, Sheldon W. Liebman, Judith Ann Spector, Mark Allister, Joy L. Davis, Kat Snider Blackbird, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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How should literary critics accomplish their necessary judgments? Robert Penn Warren, though marginalized by some historians of literary criticism in the twentieth century, has, in D. G. MYERS's opinion, an important contribution to our understanding of the discipline. Professor of English at Texas A & M University, Myers has published articles on the history and theory of criticism in a number of journals and is completing a book on the history of creative writing in American literary education.

TERRY WHITE explores the writings of three contemporary authors on the nature of the choices humans face when confronted with evil. Assistant …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 3, Arthur Scherr, Alfred Cismaru, George W. Shields, William M. Bueler, Wade Sikorski, Earl Lee, Jeanne Murray Walker, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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In Candide, argues ARTHUR SCHERR, Voltaire's women are intelligent, resourceful, and erotic individuals, quite the equal of males, if not infrequently their superiors. Having taught history and English at Bernard Baruch College and Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, as well as the New York City high schools, Scherr is a self-styled "Renaissance person" who has published articles in a number of scholarly journals.

Human memory is a curious thing: it remembers what it wants to remember and forgets what it is inconvenient to remember or simply refuses to believe a contrary fact. So it is …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 2, Peter Scheckner, Eugene Kraft, Michael Jeffrey, Irvin D. Solomon, Thomas Whigham, Ronald Larson, Steve Broidy, Carl Buchanan, Charles Bukowski, Trent Busch, Duane K. Caylor, Patricia Fargnoli, Judy Goldman, Sidney L. Hall Jr., Patricia Hooper, Bob Kaven, Victor Pearn, Joe Salerno, Rebecca Thompson, Robert Tremmel, Richard W. Slatta, Thomas R. Walther, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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During the 1989 democracy demonstrations in China, Americans struggled to understand, and in so doing challenged their own stereotypes about the people of China. PETER SCHECKNER, who with his wife was then teaching American culture in Beijing at a tourist college, had hoped to challenge his Chinese students' stereotypes about American society and found his expectations repeatedly called into question. Author of books on D. H. Lawrence and Chartist poetry, Scheckner is Associate Professor of English at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

The great truths often present themselves to us repeatedly and in unlikely circumstances, as EUGENE KRAFT demonstrates in …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 1, Michael J. Bugeja, Donald R. Mccoy, Joyce R. Durham, Haim Gordon, Thomas M. Norton-Smith, Linda L. Norton-Smith, Richard M. Gardner, Don Boes, Marguerite Bouvard, Kim Bridgford, Carl Buchanan, Charles Bukowski, Duane K. Caylor, Mary Crow, Myron Ernst, Patrick Worth Gray, Ray Greenblatt, Christopher Guerin, Marguerite Holley, Ernest Kroll, Rachel Loden, Peter Ludwin, Joyce K. Luzzi, Hillary Lyon, James Magorian, Jo Mcdougall, Gean Moreno, Richard Pau-Llosa, Timothy R. Phillips, Paul Ruffin, James Scofield, Barbara Stallone, Barry Sternlieb, Laura Anna Stortoni, Robert Tremmel, Robert Wexelblatt, Steve Wilson, Harold Witt, Daniel E. Sutherland, Virginia J. Laas, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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What is wrong with today's university? MICHAEL J. BUGEJA believes academia has wandered away from individual excellence---in teaching and in the student's rational and aesthetic education--and turned a diploma into dollars, not sense. Internationally published poet and writer, editor of a volume of cultural essays from Oklahoma State Press, and author of two journalism manuals, Bugeja is a professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, where he teaches ethics, writing, and editing.

Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, as DONALD R. McCOY shows, were thrust together by war and driven apart by partisan politics. University …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 4, Ron Mcfarland, Jay Paul, Jeff Crouch, Andrew P. Williams, Nicholas D. Rombes Jr., Gary P. Hendrickson, Kim Bridgeford, Charles Bukowski, Jared Carter, Carol Hamilton, Peter Krok, Ernest Kroll, Lyn Lifshin, Mathew Murrey, Silvia Scheibli, Margo A. Schmidt, Ioanna-Veronika Warwick, Ernest A. Wight Jr., David Sloan, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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"Where is this guy coming from?" What do we bring to reading a poet such as James Wright, wonders RON McFARLAND, and how and why do individuals respond to the music and phrase and sense of what they encounter? Author of The Villanelle: The Evolution of a Poetic Form (1987), editor of two critical anthologies on James Welch and Norman Maclean (1986, 1988), and a full-length collection of his own poems, Composting at Forty (1984), McFarland teaches 17th-century and modern poetry at the University of Idaho.

In Dave Etter's poems familiar words and settings achieve their humor and insight through …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 3, Walter Cummins, Sonia Kovitz, Walter Poznar, Susanne Carter, Anne Shifrer, Eugene L. Huddleston, Marcia Arrieta, Baloian Baloian, Alan Britt, Michael Cadnum, Karen Connelly, James Griffin, Fritz Hamilton, Jo Mariner, Sally Allen Mcnall, Larissa Szporluk, Harold Witt, Eve E. M. Wood, Anne Ohman Youngs, Donald F. Kerle, Calvin H. Merrifield, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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How closely do science and art approach truth, or approach each other? More nearly than one might think concludes WALTER CUMMINS. Professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Cummins has published many short stories and articles dealing with writing and communication.

SONIA KOVITZ looks into the ordeal of Simone Weil to find value in herself, a struggle in which she would never admit success, in order to consider the meaning of this universal passion. Formerly a teacher of Russian language and literature at Lawrence University and author of articles on Chekhov's fiction and drama, Kovitz is now Program Review Administrator …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 2, Malcolm O. Magaw, Helen F. Maxson, Timothy J. Williams, Richard Badenhausen, Marilyn Lancaster, James C. Work, Don Boes, Christopher Cokinos, Anne Colwell, Philip Dacey, Kevin Griffith, William Jollif, Kathleen M. Mccann, Jane Mcclellan, Andrea Moorhead, Gianfranco Pagnucci, Stephen Perry, Bertha Rogers, Maryfrances Wagner, Gail White, Fred B. Misse, Dudley T. Cornish, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Nicely blending his training in the visual arts with his verbal skills, as MALCOLM O. MAGAW shows, John Updike in Marry Me produces a fuller understanding of his characters and a richer tapestry for his readers. Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Magaw has published essays on Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Yeats, Keats, Warren, Bellow, Walker Percy, Hemingway, and Cheever. He has had two previous publications in The Midwest Quarterly and is working currently on Malamud.

Seeing in the worldview of women a new way of grasping reality and of reshaping the world for the better, HELEN F. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 1, H. Wendell Howard, Patrick J. O'Connor, Clare R. Goldfarb, Tommy R. Thompson, Muriel Brown, David E. Gamble, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Mark Cunningham, Charles Edward Eaton, Faye George, Fritz Hamilton, Margaret Holley, Sandra Marshburn, Dionisio D. Martínez, Susan Peterson, Ronald F. Smits, Charles Cagle, Roger O'Connor, Dudley T. Cornish, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki, as H. WENDELL HOWARD explains, focuses his works on understanding the life that death ends, a preoccupation informed by his Catholicism, Polish birth, and the events in Eastern Europe. Professor of English and Juilliard-trained musician, author of articles on literature and music, Howard has many publications to his credit, including a 1987 essay in these pages.

The roots of blues music, PATRICK J. O'CONNOR shows, were in the rural South, born of the disillusionment with the poverty of post-Civil War freedom and carried into the depths of urban America. Blues music was a direct response to …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 4, Robert Grudin, Paul J. Schumacher, Kenneth L. Golden, Ruth B. Shult, Harbour Winn, John G. Peters, William Winfield, Duane Locke, Walter Shear, Donald W. Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Offering a stimulating and much-needed comment on the current fashions in literary criticism, ROBERT GRUDIN also provides an alternative which, he urges, puts the text and the author in context, and literary theorists in their proper place vis-à-vis the work under scrutiny. Grudin is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon.

PAUL J. SCHUMACHER explores Franz Kafka's discourse on transcendence in his unfinished novel, The Castle, and traces his meaning to Kierkegaard's investigation of the same topic. Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, Schumacher has recently completed a book-length manuscript on "Existentialism …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 3, James A. Stevenson, Robert Wexelblatt, Steven L. Schweizer, Roger Horne, Ralph Brauer, Allen Ramsey, Daniel Williams, Timothy P. Bellows, Nancy Botkin, Patrick W. Gray, Mark Henke, Kip Knott, Joyce K. Luzzi, Sheryl L. Nelms, Philip Terman, Deborah Woodard, Anne O. Youngs, Sharon E. Neet, Stephen Meats, Donalds W. Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Chiding modern historians for a hidebound rigidity that blinds them to the truths that lie in historical fiction and poetry, JAMES A. STEVENSON argues that Edmund Spenser's history of Elizabethan times revealed less than his magnificent, but outwardly fictional Faerie Queen. Holder of a doctorate in history and a recently completed master's degree in English literature, Stevenson has published articles on history, film, and literature in a variety of academic journals, including an essay on Lincoln's affinity for Macbeth in The Midwest Quarterly. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at East Georgia College.

What did cavepersons do without letters? …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 2, Martin Tropp, Richard L. Chapple, Maren Partenheimer, David Partenheimer, John W. Roberts, James F. Maxfield, Stephanie Demetrakopoulos, Linda Andrews, Kelly Cherry, Andrew Dillon, Lola Haskins, Fleda B. Jackson, William Kloefkorn, Greg Kuzma, Duane Locke, Hillary Lyon, G. D. Richards, Richard Tremmel, Charles Wyatt, Robert L. Sheverbush, Charles Cagle, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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MARTIN TROPP considers the message of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with reference to contemporary views of mind, body, and will. Tropp is Professor of English at Babson College. He is the author of scholarly articles on such writers as Nathaniel West, and two books, one on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster and the other on horror stories in modern culture, 1818- 1918.

Among the writers newly found in the more open society of Gorbachev's era, RICHARD L. CHAPPLE observes, the talent of Tatyana Tolstaya is notable for creating portraits of ordinary people of the middle class. They …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 1, John Churchill, Paul Griffin, Thomas Strawman, William Casement, James Corpora, James C. Mckelly, Mary Crow, Mark Cunningham, Philip Dacey, Fleda B. Jackson, William Kloefkorn, Ernest Kroll, Greg Kuzma, Hilary Lyon, Ace G. Pilkington, Jacie Ragan, Joe Salerno, Mike Smetzer, Laura A. Stortoni, Lowell Bergstedt, T. H. S. Wallace, Harold Witt, Roger O'Connor, Thomas R. Walther, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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MARTIN TROPP considers the message of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with reference to contemporary views of mind, body, and will. Tropp is Professor of English at Babson College. He is the author of scholarly articles on such writers as Nathaniel West, and two books, one on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster and the other on horror stories in modern culture, 1818- 1918.

Among the writers newly found in the more open society of Gorbachev's era, RICHARD L. CHAPPLE observes, the talent of Tatyana Tolstaya is notable for creating portraits of ordinary people of the middle class. They …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 31 No. 4, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Christopher S. Durer, Anne L. Bower, Laurie Buchanan, Alfred Cismaru, Ayman Hussein, Andrew Dillon, Gary Short, Mark Schaub, Elisabeth Grant-Gibson, Diane Wahto, Tom Maloney, Anne A. Colwell, Cindy Mcghee, Al Ortolani, Daniel J. Sundahl, Jeanie (Olson) Haggerton, William Kloefkorn, Ann Lundberg-Grunke, Michael L. Johnston, John Dufresne, Jared Carter

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YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI reveals the similarities and differences between Zen Buddhism and American Transcendentalism, particularly in the writings of Emerson and Whitman, a view which illuminates much in their philosophy and also helps us understand where the two American authors diverged. Professor of English at Kent State University, Hakutani has published books on Theodore Japanese fiction, Thedore Dreiser, Richard Wright, Yone Noguchi, and many articles on similar topics.

Moby-Dick, though securely rooted in its own time, prefigures twentieth-century totalitarianism’s epitome, Nazi Germany, in the opinion of CHRISTOPHER S. DURER. Professor of English at the University of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 31 No. 3, Michael C. C. Adams, Robert W. Sellen, Thomas M. Norton-Smith, William L. Burton, Lawrence O. Christensen, Erving E. Beauregard, Diane Averill, Polly Brody, Tom Chandler, Elizabeth Charlton, Bruce Cutler, W. K. Dolphin, Myron Ernst, J. B. Goodenough, Carol Granato, Kevin Griffith, Jay Griswold, Fritz Hamilton, Robert Harlow, Michael L. Johnson, Joe Salerno, Daniel J. Sundahl, Jim Thomas, Steve Wilson, Charles Cagle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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MICHAEL C. C. ADAMS examines anti-war literature and finds much of it glorifies the experience, despite its realism and criticism of those far from the theater of combat. Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, Adams's book, Our Masters the Rebels: A Speculation on Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865, will this year be joined by The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War One.

Finding the 1988 presidential campaign short on substance and the electorate insufficiently familiar with the concept, ROBERT W. SELLEN explores national interest historically and suggests the …

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• Bricking, Tanya. Wallace Wilkinson Scores with College Plan
• Lockert, Anya. 300 Pay Homage to Fallen Leader Martin Luther King
• Howard, Laura. Higher Education Funding Depends on Tax Bill
• Black, Sam. Surge in Auto Break-Ins Inflates Campus Crime Numbers
• Wessling, Susan. Five Department Heads Resign
• AIDS Presentation to be Held Monday
• Thomas Meredith to Work for the Arts
• Associated Student Government Changes WKU Glasgow Constitution
• Ausenbaugh, Laura. Non-Traditional Students to Get Scholarships
• Wallace Wilkinson Getting Priorities Straight
• Chattin, John. Editorial Cartoon – Governor in Troubled Waters …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 31 No. 2, Paul H. Schmidt, Shelley Saposnik-Noire, Robert Dunne, Edward M. Wheat, Carl E. Krog, James A. Stevenson, Kelly Averill, Giuseppe Conte, Marguerite Bouvard, Chief Canassatego, Carol Hamilton, Robert Wexelblatt, Peter Ludwin, Chief Speckled Snake, George Young, Len Messineo Jr., William Miller, Jared Carter, Al Ortolani, Gary Short, Biff Russ, Michael L. Johnson, James Brock, Jo Mcdougall, Michael E. Adams, John Elrod, Chief Seattle, Carol Tufts, Willard B. Gatewood Jr., William E. Parrish, Walter Shear, Robert K. Ratzlaff, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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PAUL H. SCHMIDT uses today’s understanding of addictive behavior to understand Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and her self-destructive actions. Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, Schmidt has published articles on 19th-century literature and autobiography. He is working on a book dealing with Victorian autobiography and editing the Fall 1990 special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination on autobiography.

Willa Cather’s landscapes in My Ántonia, observes SHELLEY SAPOSNIK-NOIRE, illuminates both plot and character and propels the action toward its conclusion. A student in the writing department of Columbia University, Saposnik-Noire has had a one-act …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 31 No. 1, Nancy D. Hargrove, Phil Mullins, Steven L. Schweizer, James T. Moore, Mark N. Wexler, Sanford Pinsker, Diane Averill, Jared Carter, Kip Knott, Greg Kuzma, Tim H. Law, Verlena Orr, Jacie Ragan, Paul Ruffin, Lawrence Rungren, Biff Russ, Janet Sadler, Marilyn Shea, Judith Skillman, Julie Suk, David Roediger, Virginia J. Laas, V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Unable to accept Christianity, as NANCY D. HARGROVE points out, Sylvia Plath twisted its imagery to fashion a negative more comfortable to her troubled condition. Author of Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot and articles on writers such as Yeats and

Welty, Hargrove is the recipient of several awards for teaching excellence at Mississippi State University where she is one of seven University Distinguished Professors.

What is interpretation? This and other concepts derived from the work of Michael Polanyi form the topic of PHIL MULLINS. Professor of Humanities at Missouri Western …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 4, Jack D'Amico, Margaret J. Downes, Earl Ingersoll, Thomas Matchie, Annette Sisson, Walter Poznar, Bruce Bond, Marguerite Bouvard, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Chip Dameron, Martha Elizabeth, George Gott, Leonard Lang, Rachel Loden, Rachelle Marmor, Edward Mycue, Kenneth Pobo, Mark Sanders, Paul N. Silas, Laura Anna Stortoni, Martha M. Vertreace, Steve Wilson, Lisa Yount, Walter Shear, Charles Cagle, Alvin H. Proctor, Barbara Pryor, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JACK D'AMICO explores the politics of madness and the madness of politics through the character of Junius Brutus and his incarnations in Machiavelli and Shakespeare. Presently Associate Professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, D'Amico has written extensively on English and Italian Renaissance literature, particularly on theater and Machiavelli.

The Greek and Roman epics and tragedies, MARGARET J. DOWNES observes, present us with the purposes and consequences of death in order to focus on the implications and responsibilities of life. Author of scholarly works on William Blake, classical literature and culture, film, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 3, Matthew Melko, Jon Roper, Arthur A. Molitierno, Michael Ponsford, Robert E. Fleming, Alan Nadel, Phyllis Janik, Jennings M. Blackmon, Jo Mcdougall, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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These are normal times, not crisis times, in the other-end-of-the-telescope view of MATTHEW MELKO, and we should value this age as such and use this insight to improve the lives of others and ourselves. A professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a pioneer in worldview studies, Melko's essay here summarizes thoughts which will shortly be given book-length treatment by Paragon. This is Melko's second article in The Midwest Quarterly.

JON ROPER discusses the ethical dimension of democracy as it passed from the Greeks to Americans …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 2, Robert Wexelblatt, Kenneth L. Golden, Christopher S. Durer, William Casement, Wheeler Winston Dixon, James I. Weingartner, Mark Christhilf, Tom Saya, Kathleen Johnson, Richard Tucker, Duncan Moran, Phil Stephens, Michael J. O'Brien, Elmer Suderman, Marion Schoeberlein, Sidney R. Thompson, Hugh C. Abernethy Jr., Al Ortolani, Jo Mcdougall, James D. Miley, Pamela Yenser, Twyla Hansen, Amil Quayle, Christopher Cokinos, Michael A. Carey, Angela Cooper, V. J. Emmett Jr., Charles Cagle, Gene Degruson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Out of nothing, something. ROBERT WEXELBLATT examines the meaning of the creative act and scrutinizes the first sentences of major works to illustrate the writer's power to fashion time and place and character in the choice, juxtaposition, and concatenation of words. Now Chairperson of the Division of Humanities at Boston University, Wexelblatt writes scholarly articles on literary subjects (recently on Fitzgerald, Lawrence, Camus, and Nietzsche), stories, and poetry, as well as essays, several of which have graced The Midwest Quarterly.

Literary critics too frequently mistake the leaves for the forest, and by failing to explore …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 1, John Z. Guzlowski, David A. Godfrey, Phyllis Cole Braunlich, Walter Shear, Thomas D. Isern, Theodore R. Hovet, Amy Clampitt, Paul Jenkins, Jo Mcdougall, Christopher Howell, Jeff Worley, Linda Taylor, Denise Low, Elaine Mott, Ellen Watson, Ellen Wittlinger, Cynthia Chapman, Michael Van Walleghen, Al Ortolani, Thomas R. Walther, George G. Suggs Jr., V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The fiction of William Burroughs focuses on control and the illusion of personal freedom, a situation JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI finds reinforced in the author's treatment of the family. A teacher in the English Department of Eastern Illinois University and Editor of Karamu, a poetry and fiction magazine, Guzlowski’s work on recent American fiction has appeared in a variety of journals.

Ways of understanding can at times become ways of avoiding reality and real comprehension. Such was the case in Edith Wharton’s Old New York, as discussed by DAVID A. GODFREY. Currently a lecturer at the …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 4, Judith Weissman, Elizabeth Dodd, K. Narayana Chandran, Malcom O. Magaw, Jane M. Devyver, Charlotte Rotkin, Grace Butcher, William Virgil Davis, Connie May Fowler, Sandra Fowler, Ben Howard, Richard Smyth, Steve Wilson, Howard Winn, Pamela Yenser, Walter Shear, V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JUDITH WEISSMAN revisions the later work of Emily Dickinson as that of a lucid, sane, generous, less volcanic woman more at ease with herself and her beliefs. A specialist in nineteenth-century poetry and fiction and Professor of English at Syracuse University, Weissman published Half Savage and Hardy and Free: Woman and Rural Radicalism in the Nineteenth-Century Novel last year. She is presently working on a book dealing with poetry and the theory of the bicameral mind.

Mindful of Ezra Pound's boast he was "in such a beautiful position to save the public's soul by punching …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 3, John W. Murphy, James F. Lea, Robert M. Randolph, Sanford Pinkser, David Lloyd Jones, Susan Materese, Paul Salmon, Bert Almon, Stephen C. Behrendt, Mark Christhilf, Myron Ernst, Robert Funge, Christopher D. Guerin, Sally Herrin, Dionisio D. Martínez, Rich Murphy, Anne Ohman-Youngs, Kenneth Pobo, Gregory A. Ryan, Diane Moon Sautter, Kenneth Shaffer, William Winfield, Jo Mcdougall, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JOHN W. MURPHY describes the discontents and contentions of postmodernism in assessing the world of today, be it science, religion, or other institutions in society, and suggests modernism's emphasis on order may exact a higher price than the imprecision of postmodernism. Currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University, Murphy has, in addition to numerous articles, published The Social Philosophy of Martin Buber, The Underside of High-tech, and Technology and Human Productivity.

Americans should celebrate their Constitution's two-hundredth anniversary by considering changes in the fundamental law, not simply by congratulating themselves on its longevity …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 4, Edward M. Wheat, A. Carl Bredahl, Liz Porter Hankins, Earl G. Ingersoll, Carol A. Martin, H. Wendell Howard, Denise Low, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Walt Whitman, according to EDWARD M. WHEAT, conceived of Leaves of Grass as a means of expressing and reinvigorating America’s democratic ideals, an epic intending revolutionary change. Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of American Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, Wheat has published several articles related to his research interests in politics and literature, political culture and socialization, and public administration.

A. CARL BREDAHL intends to rescue from undeserved insignificance Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa, an effort he hopes to expand into a book-length manuscript. Bredahl is Professor of English …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 3, David R. Pichaske, Paul Mccarthy, Chris Anderson, Tom Hibbard, Beth Kraig, Roy Lechtreck, Kelly Averill, Jack Folsom, Edward Locke, Ramón E. Martinéz, Janet Mccann, Marilee Richards, David Williams, Kathleen L. Nichols, G. W. Clift, Charles Cagle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Observing the recent renascence of the Midwest, DAVID R. PICHASKE takes his readers on a tour with stops in Alliance and Springfield, Illinois, Madison, Minnesota, and the Platte River Valley in Nebraska. He finds decay and an understanding of what has been lost, tempered with hope for the future. Associate Professor and Chairman of the English Department at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota, Pichaske has written three books (Chaucer's Literary Pilgrimage and A Generation in Motion being the most recent) along with articles and poems in a wide variety of venues.

Thoreau's eye, so …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 2, Ronald Larson, Betty R. Mcgraw, Rodney O. Fox, Struan Jacobs, Katherine H. Burkman, J. Reid Meloy, Michael J. Strada, Albert E. Wilhelm, Jimmy Aubert, Marguerite Bouvard, Neal Bowers, Sandra Berris, Mike Catherwood, Ann Conner, Carl Djerassi, George Gott, Fleda Brown Jackson, Ernest Kroll, Walter Mcdonald, Barbara Moore, Joseph Raffa, Alison T. Reed, Gregory A. Ryan, Rebecca Thompson, Richard J. Weekley, Gary W. Clift, Charles Cagle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Egalitarianism begets totalitarianism and antisemitism. That is the provocative thesis of RONALD LARSON. Professor of Social Science at Wytheville Community College in Virginia and playwright, Larson has studied and written about modem narcissism in a number of different forums.

BETTY R. McGRAW and RODNEY O. FOX link literature and science to explore the modem view of life's basic components as lacking the certainty and unity so apparent to earlier generations of philosophers, scientists, and writers, and they end with a mention of new topics for consideration. McGraw is Associate Professor of French and Fox is …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 1, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Donald Wayne Viney, James Doyle, David Dooley, Robert A. Frost, Fran Avnet Goldstein, Robert Hays, Tony Park, Cynthia Pederson, Martha M. Vertreace, Marlis Manley Broadhead, Robert Harlow, Fleda Brown Jackson, George Looney, Denise Low, William Page, Robert Wexelblatt, Steven R. Centola, Oscar Salinas, Eileen T. Bender, Eric Pankey, Clark Brown, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE uses a study of hunting activities to inform a new view of humans as more than sensory receptors dangling from the intelligent brain. With a doctorate in dance and study toward a second doctorate in zoology, Sheets-Johnstone has written two books on dance and has published numerous articles on philosophical anthropology in journals devoted to science, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. She is presently gathering material for a book on the paleonanthropological hermeneutics of the body. She has taught at U.C.L.A., in the S.U.N.Y. system, at the University of Waterloo in Canada, …

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 …