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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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

Ethics And Sovereignty, William L. Blizek, Rory J. Conces

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In the political arena, every nation is considered to be sovereign. That is, what happens within the legitimate borders of a nation, what docs not affect other nations, is to be decided by the people of that nation or the government of' that nation and no one else. If a nation wants to centralize economic decisions, that is its business. If a nation wants a free market economy, no other nation can interfere. If a nation wants to be represented by a new form of government, it has the right to change governments. And so on.

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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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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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Information about the poets and their aesthetic concerns can be found with their work.

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 …

Jonathan Friedman's Review Of Annette B. Weiner's Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox Of Keeping-While-Giving, Jonathan Friedman

Pacific Studies

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Maria Lepowsky's Review Of Annette B. Weiner's Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox Of Keeping-While-Giving, Maria Lepowsky

Pacific Studies

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Annette B. Weiner's Response On Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox Of Keeping-While-Giving, Annette B. Weiner

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Marc Augé'S Review Of Annette B. Weiner's Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox Of Keeping-While-Giving, Marc Augé

Pacific Studies

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James F. Weiner's Review Of Annette B. Weiner's Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox Of Keeping-While-Giving, James F. Weiner

Pacific Studies

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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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

Resisting The Norm: Ironic Images Of Marx And Confucius, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The analysis of Chinese politics seems to be ruled by binary oppositions. The question most often asked about social movements is "is it Communist or is it anti-Communist?"

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 …

Political-Economic Ideologies And Social Justice, Benjamin T. Tolosa Jr

Political Science Department Faculty Publications

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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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

Introduction To Marx And Modern Political Theory: From Hobbes To Contemporary Feminism, Philip J. Kain

Philosophy

I first began to study Marx some twenty-three years ago. In those days there were many things that made it easy to become interested in Marx: among them the political ferment of the late 1960s and the fact that at the University of California at San Diego, where I was a graduate student, there were several important and interesting Marxists - Fredric Jameson, Herbert Marcuse, and Stanley Moore. The latter two were my teachers in the Philosophy Department, and the latter, to whom this book is dedicated, became my dissertation director. Moreover, the spirit of Marx was in the air …

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 16, No 3 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

Vol. 16 No. 3 (1993): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

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Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

Vol. 16 No. 3 (1993): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

Contributors: Vol 16 No. 3, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

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The State, Civil Society, And Citizenship, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

In large, modern societies, then, we should make the most of "partial societies" by encouraging the development of a vital civil society--a sphere of life that promotes freedom through private activity and the voluntary associations that serve as a buffer between individuals and the state. Indeed, the question is not whether civil society is a prerequisite for a good society, but what form it should take. With this in mind, I want to offer three observations about the proper form of civil society.

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

Play Fair With Punishment, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

If we want to provide a justification for legal punishment, then, we must answer two distinct questions: (1) What justifies punishment as a social practice? and (2) What justifies punishing particular persons? The principle of fair play is an especially attractive theory of punishment, I shall agree, because it offers plausible and compelling answers to both these questions. I shall also suggest that there is a third question - How should we punish those who commit crimes? - that fair play cannot answer without help from other sources.

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …