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The Virtuous Woman, Anjetta Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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The Beast, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Just To Fit In, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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How I Will Live! Before I Bow., Michael Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Catechism, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Ain’T Got Nowhere To Go, Anjetta Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Late Summer 1912, Stephen Gillette

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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When Bird And Fish Fall In Love, Matthew C. Mackey

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A work of poetry that offers a new method of poetics. By examining translation as a means of understanding relationships, this work offers a nuanced manner for the writing and experience of poetry. When Bird and Fish Fall in Love is a close examination of language, relationships, translation, and the intimacy of conflation.

Ambivalent Posthumanism: A Few Of Stevens’ Animals, Brian Glaser

English Faculty Articles and Research

This essay focuses on several categories of Wallace Stevens' use of animals in his poetry that is arguably posthumanist. It argues on the emotional ambivalence made by "Mountains Covered with Cats" which points out that animals are also living entities to experience and know with a mixture of positive and negative emotions. It cites Sigmund Freud's concept of ambivalence where he transcribe and reflect on the most well-known dream of a predatory animal in the modernist milieu.

La Quête Poétique Dans L’Oeuvre De Fouad Gabriel Naffah, Georges Khoriaty

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In his poetic search, Fouad Gabriel Naffah states his conception of a poetic image revealing the absolute and the universal, his verbal adventure which consists of disintegrating the conventional language with sclerotic forms in order to have access to the authenticity and to ensure the everlasting poem. He also sets out the poetry of the imaginary which, through a dialectic and harmonization of contradictories, extends all over the universe to include and reach the study of the eternal return that satisfies his longing for eternity.

Fivefolded Asymmetrical Hand: A Poetic Essay, S. Robert Wilson

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 41 No. 4, Richard Wakefield, Keat Murray, James V. Mehl, Helen F. Maxson, Eric Carl Link, Sanford Pinsker, Burton Bradley, Ed Chaberek, Carole Cohen, Sarah Cortez, Martha Greenwald, Patricia Kirkpatrick, Matthew Douglas Mauch, Elizabeth Schultz, Ronald Charles Epstein, Richard Holinger, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

RICHARD WAKEFIELD explores two of Thomas Eakins's paintings and two of Robert Frost's poems to examine the impact of modern life and concludes that the principle characters all "hear the tick of the clock and feel the gaze of Emerson's all-conspiring society." Wakefield teaches American literature at Tacoma Community College and the University of Washington, Tacoma. His writings have appeared in numerous journals, including Robert Frost Review, American Literature, and South Carolina Review, and his poetry has appeared in a variety of venues.

KEAT MURRAY takes readers on Robert Frost's journey in "Acquainted with the Night" in order to demonstrate …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 41 No. 3, Peter Scheckner, Susan Koprince, Charles Baker, Arthur M. Saltzman, Greg Smith, Janice Barnes Daniel, Virginia Jeans Laas, David Beard, John Blair, Ted Florea, Dennis J. Fogland, Diane Frank, Rita Kiefer, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Varley, Patricia A. Behlar, Ronald Charles Epstein, Keith Mccoy, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Charles Dickens proved himself a careful observer of working-class oppression in Victorian England, both of men and women, and of causes economic, social, and personal. But as PETER SCHECKNER amply demonstrates, Dickens offered them little means of righting the political and economic order that significantly contributed to their plight. A revolutionary Dickens was not. Professor of English at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Scheckner is the author of Class, Politics, and the Individual: A Study of the Major Works of D. H. Lawrence and An Anthology of Chartist Poetry: Poetry of the British Working Class, 1830s-1850s. He has also written …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 41 No. 2, John G. Parks, Arthur A. Molitierno, Stephen C. Behrendt, Greg Smith, James J. Mcclintock, Jennifer Radtke, David Baker, Dan Campion, Tom Hansen, Margaret Hasse, Ted Kooser, Roseann Lloyd, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kathleen Norris, Mark Sanders, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Why is there humor in being helpless to counter the forces great (and sometimes small) at work in the world? JOHN G. PARKS traces the idea of the comedy of powerlessness in the works of late twentieth-century writers and concludes that our laughter stirs not from a bitter embrace of this condition but because it is an assertion of free will in the face of those forces. Professor of English at Miami University in Ohio, Parks has, in addition to numerous scholarly articles, published a book on the fiction of E. L. Doctorow. He is currently at work on two …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 41 No. 1, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, Thorunn Ruga Mccoy, David Garrison, Mark Mossman, Judith Musser, William Casement, Diane Averill, Baloian Baloian, K. H. Barron, Alan Britt, Mary Crow, Lois Marie Harrod, Fleda Brown Jackson, Kathleen Lynch, Hillary Lyon, Robin Michel, Andrea Moorhead, Pattiann Rogers, Sam Taylor, Paul W. Zagorski, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

As MICHELLE SCALISE SUGIYAMA shows, author Sandra Cisneros uses women's shoes and feet as potent symbols and actual examples of male manipulation of female sexuality and freedom. An Affiliate of the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon and of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Sugiyama approaches the universal behavior of storytelling from a cognitive and anthropological perspective. Her work can be found in The Hemingway Review, Human Nature, Mosaic, and Skeptic, and she is completing a book-length study developing an alternative to Freudian literary analysis and its derivatives …

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

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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 …

Writing And Reading In Philosophy, Law, And Poetry, James Boyd White

Book Chapters

In this paper I will treat a very general question, the nature of writing and what can be achieved by it, pursuing it in the three distinct contexts provided by philosophy, law, and poetry.

My starting-point will be Plato's Phaedrus, where, in a wellknown passage, Socrates attacks writing itself: he says that true philosophy requires the living engagement of mind with mind of a kind that writing cannot attain. Yet this is obviously a paradox, for Socrates' position is articulated and recorded by Plato in writing. How then can we make sense of what Plato is saying and doing? What …

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.

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Mathematics Found In Poetry, Alexis Mann

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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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

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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

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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 Poetics Of E=Mc2, Richard A. Schwartz

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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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 …

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

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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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 38 No. 1, David Cochran, Michael A. Griffith, Drewey Wayne Gunn, Rebecca Thomas, Andrew P. Williams, H. Wendell Howard, Sarah Browning, Robert Coles, Pat Daneman, Joseph M. Ditta, Carol Hamilton, Gray Jacobik, Christine Knoeller, Lyn Lifshin, Hillary Lyon, Jane Mcclellan, Sally Allen Mcnall, Dixie Patridge, Lauren Smith, Steve Wilson, Harry L. Humphries, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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DAVID COCHRAN explores the world Chester Himes has created in his hard-boiled cop series set in Harlem as a reflection of reality and Himes's own experiences. A doctoral candidate in American cultural history at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Cochran has published two articles previously and is working on a dissertation covering popular culture in the Cold War era.

MICHAEL A. GRIFFITH contends that Plato, in Phaedrus, distinguishes between philosophy, as the superior intellectual endeavor, and poetry and rhetoric, as its inferiors, in the same way he would distinguish between love and sex, the one sublin1e and the others obstacles to …