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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 37 No. 4, William V. Davis, James R. Guthrie, Greg Smith, Celestine W. Liu, Earl J. Ingersoll, Kenneth R. Morefield, Polly Brody, Jim Daniels, Steven Ellis, Carol Goodman, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Fleda Brown Jackson, Joel Long, Walter Mcdonald, Jo Mcdougall, Virginia Slachman, David Tucker, Ronald Wallace, Don Welch, Kristina Wright, David D. Cooper, Richard Holinger, Elizabeth Masoni, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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WILLIAM V. DAVIS evokes James Wright's use of place, both geographic location and personal space, in poems set in the Ohio of his birth and early life. Author of criticism (in books such as Understanding Robert Bly, Critical Essays on Robert Bly, and Miraculous Simplicity: Essays on R. S. Thomas) and poetry (for example, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, The Dark Hours, winner of the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize, published with his full middle name, Virgil), including both criticism and poems in the Midwest Quarterly, Davis is Professor of English …

On Mathematics In Poetry, John S. Lew

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 37 No. 3, Philip K. Jason, Virginia Oakley Beahrs, Stephanie Gauper, Jean Robertson, Craig Mcdaniel, Debra Goodlett, Nicki L. Young, Diane Averill, Cindy Bosley, Sharon Fain, Charles Freeland, Kathryn Hall, William Joliff, Peter Markus, Maggie Mcdowell, Franco Pagnucci, John Piller, Michele Pizarro, William Snyder Jr., Philip Terman, Mary Tompkins, David Tucker, Richard Holinger, Patricia A. Behlar, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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PHILIP K. JASON presents the sounds of the war in Vietnam through the literature that conflict engendered and in doing so makes this experience all the more real and devastating. Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, Jason's publications include work in two collections of poetry; the Creative Writer's Handbook (Prentice-Hall); the career study of Anais Nin and Her Critics (Camden House); and two books relevant to the topic here, Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature (University of Iowa Press) and The Vietnam War in Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism (Salem Press). He is currently …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 37 No. 2, David D. Cooper, Haim Gordon, Harold P. Simmonson, John Fawell, Arthur Scherr, Patrick Joseph O'Connor, Paul Christensen, Henrietta S. Goodman, George Gott, Fleda Brown Jackson, John Kennedy, Robert King, James Mersmann, Geri Rosenzweig, Judith Skillman, Katherine Soniat, James Valvis, Jeanne Murray Walker, Timothy Walsh, Ronald Wardall, Charles Cagle, Susan Carlson, Patricia De La Fuente, Marjorie Donovan, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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DAVID D. COOPER explores the generational storms that swept across university campuses in the 60s-70s and now the 80s-90s and the meaning of a liberal arts education in response to the values articulated by today's students. Associate Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University, Cooper has written half-a-hundred articles on American literature and culture, literary theory, educational philosophy, psychology and religion, composition studies, literacy, and the philosophy of values. Author of Thomas Merton's Art of Denial: The Evolution of a Radical Humanist (University of Georgia Press, 1989), Cooper's next will be "Amending the Heart: An Essay on …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 37 No. 1, Robert Paul Lamb, Richard Kostelanetz, Michael Tager, Thomas Matchie, Sally Ventura, Robert Wexelblatt, Baloian Baloian, Lisa Beskin, Craig Challender, Robert Funge, Edward Haworth-Hoeppner, George Kalamaras, Lyn Lifshin, Kathleen Lynch, Hillary Lyon, Ron Mcfarland, John Mckernan, Martin Ott, Dixie Partridge, Ken Waldman, Gail White, Charles Cagle, Kathy Degrave, Daniel Green, Rebecca N. Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ROBERT PAUL LAMB revealingly explores the short story writer's use of compression and exact word choice through examples drawn mainly from Ernest Hemingway. Author of articles on Melville, Whitman, Hemingway, and the film Citizen Kane, and a forthcoming essay on James G. Birney and southern abolitionism, Lamb is Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University. He is currently completing a book-length study of "Hemingway and the Short Story."

RICHARD KOSTELANETZ discusses his innovations in poetic form and content and provides three examples of his work. Widely acclaimed for his explorations in new ways to convey written language, Kostelanetz lives independently …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 36 No. 4, Michael Adams, Stanley E. Banks, Walter Bargen, Jim Barnes, Stephen C. Behrendt, Gar Bethel, Gerald N. Callahan, Michael Catherwood, G. S. Sharat Chandra, Jim Cihlar, Bruce Cutler, Leo Dangel, Celia A. Daniels, Joseph M. Ditta, Elizabeth Dodd, Constance Egemo, Michael Finley, John Garmon, Diane Glancy, Patrick Worth Gray, Charles Guenther, Tom Hansen, Twyla Hansen, Neil Harrison, Steven Hind, Art Homer, Michael L. Johnson, Robert King, Robert Kirshbaum, William Kloefkorn, Greg Kuzma, Leonard Lang, Denise Low, James Magorian, David Mason, Jim Mccrary, Jo Mcdougall, J. J. Mckenna, Jennifer Mcnaught, Jay Meek, Bill Meissner, Janice H. Mikesell, James D. Miley, Michael Moos, Mark A. Nowak, Al Ortolani, Elsie Pankowski, Thomas D. Peacock, Cynthia Pederson, Caryl Porter, Kim Ports, Joan Wolf Prefontaine, Trish Reeves, Richard Robbins, Carolann Russell, Marjorie Saiser, Bonny Barry Sanders, Terry Savoie, Roy Scheele, Barbara Schmitz, Jory Sherman, Michael Skau, Roland Sodowsky, Rawdon Tomlinson, Wyatt Townley, Tim Trapp, Patricia Traxler, Bill Tremblay, Robert Tremmel, William Trowbridge, Mark Vinz, Don Welch, Warren Woessner, Joan Yeagley, Lois J. Faucette, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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LOIS J. FAUCETTE is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. She holds the Ph.D. degree from Howard University and has also studied at the University of Arkansas, University of Iowa, and Indiana University.

DONALD WAYNE VINEY is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University and serves on the Board of Editors of Midwest Quarterly. He has published books and numerous articles in his field and has a special interest in the philosophy of religion.

ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 36 No. 3, Edward M. Wheat, Malcolm O. Magaw, Darryl Hattenhauer, Elizabeth Dodd, Sanford Pinsker, Francis Donahue, Eve Adamson, Timothy Bellows, Michael Cadnum, Gerald N. Callahan, George Eklund, Sean Enright, Theodore Genoways, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Scott Heim, Linda Keegan, Cathleen A. Long, Jennifer Maier, Biljana D. Obradović, Susan Rea, Katie H. Armitage, Kelly A. Woestman, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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EDWARD M. WHEAT examines the meaning of the post-modem era through the character and world of the "hard-boiled dick," particularly Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op. Author of articles in a variety of scholarly journals, Wheat is Professor of Political Science and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Southern Mississippi.

In crafting Marry Me, argues MALCOLM O. MAGAW, John Updike used geography, topography, and spatial relations to form a symbolic background against which his protagonist Jerry Conant pursues his truths. A specialist on American literature with previous articles on such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Warren, Bellow, Walker …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 36 No. 2, Kim Paffenroth, Manfred Weidhorn, William C. Stephenson, Charles S. Brown, William Casement, George Slanger, Richard Callin, Albino Carrillo, James Cushing, Jeffrey Erikson, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Tom Hansen, David James, Walter Mcdonald, Willie Reader, Heather Sellers, Barry Sternlieb, Steve Wilson, Anne Ohman Youngs, Kathleen L. Nichols, Daniel J. Royer, Rebecca Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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KIM PAFFENROTH examines the Judas of the written Gospels and explicates Bach's sensitive musical portrayal of Judas in the recitatives and arias of the "St. Matthew Passion." A graduate student in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Paffenroth has published articles on the death of Judas, St. Augustine's idea of friendship, and on Romans. His area of concentration is the synoptic gospels.

MANFRED WEIDHORN develops the many meanings of manliness from classical times to the present day through a study of literary and historical figures, with special emphasis on Edward Gibbon's definition. Guterman Professor of English at Yeshiva University, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 36 No. 1, Christian Michener, Michael S. Allen, Asad Al-Ghalith, Terry Allen Wiggs, Jane Lasarenko, Thomas Michael Norton-Smith, Melinda Baker, Alice G. Brand, Alan Britt, Ruth Daigon, Howard Dupuis, Fritz Hamilton, William Kloefkorn, Michael Lieberman, Donald Morrill, Karl Patten, Allan Peterson, David Ray, James Scofield, James Soular, R. P. Burnham, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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CHRISTIAN MICHENER explores Susan Straight's likening of the black experience in America to an underwater dancer so focused on survival as to remain as dry as the chief setting for most of the stories in the Aquaboogie collection, Rio Seco. A doctoral student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Michener is here publishing his first scholarly work

Arguing that 'patriarchy' fails to reveal the tradition in American literature of male identity, power, and purpose, MICHAEL S. ALLEN examines the role of male bonding and traces it to the early threat of violence each young male faces, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 4, Susan S. Kissel, William T. Liston, Kurt Hochenauer, James R. Jaye, Greg Johnson, Gavriel Ben-Ephraim, Todd Ryan Boss, Rene F. Cardenas, Philip Cioffari, Robert S. King, Martin Lammon, Lyn Lifshin, Errol Miller, Lenard D. Moore, Mark Nowak, Beth Simon, Matthew J. Spireng, Philip Tobin, Ralph Wilson, Steve Wilson, Robert W. Bardeen, Charles Cagle, Kathleen De Grave, Jo Mcdougall

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For all the angry rejection and amused disinterest she received from Americans then, Frances Trollope, in the view of SUSAN S. KISSEL, masterfully discerned much of the American character that remains as true today as it was in 1832. Associate Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University, Kissel has published a number of articles on Frances Trollope and other British and American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her book, In Common Cause: The "Conservative" Frances Trollope and the "Radical" Frances Wright, was recently published by The Popular Press of Bowling Green State University.

WILLIAM T. LISTON contends that …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 3, Theresa M. Mackey, Dorothy Dodge Robbins, Carolyn Nelson, John L. Dusseau, Nicholas O. Pagan, James A. Stevenson, Lawrence Bradley, Carrie Frasier, Judith Harris, James Hawkins, Lyn Lifshin, Mark Sanders, Rita Signorelli-Pappas, Sara Sproles, William John Watkins, Don Welch, Jeff Worley, Patricia A. Behlar, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Nationalism, both fashionable and deadly once more, is THERESA M. MACKEY's subject as she examines the writings of James Joyce. Rather than anti-nationalist, Mackey finds the later Joyce committed to a position akin to modern radically nationalist republicanism. Professor of English at St. John's College in Annapolis, Mackey is here publishing her first scholarly essay.

DOROTHY DODGE ROBBINS recounts the journey of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist and how it fits the typology of such adventures in ancient and modern literature. Robbins is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

How did …

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 …

Like Poetry, Mathematics Is Beautiful, Joanne Growney

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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 …

Ultimately, Mathematics Is Poetry, Alfred Warrinnier

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Mathematics And Poetry : Isolated Or Integrated?, Joanne S. Growney

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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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in this issue. . .

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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in this issue. . .

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 …