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Welfare, Contract, And The Language Of Charity, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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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 Doctrine Of Eternal Return, Tracy Burr Strong

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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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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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 …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 3, Mark Christhilf, Thomas R. Vale, Geraldine R. Vale, Edward L. Galligan, James Barbour, William C. Dowling, Charles M. Redenius, Matthew Melko, Lola Haskins, Regan Good, Ruth Good, Thom Tammaro, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Wishing to help us see what his words suggest, the poet struggles to give expression to images. W. S. Merwin, explains MARK CHRISTHILF, makes use of the work of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, among other painters, in bringing to his readers an understanding of what Merwin's generous eye beheld. Poet and critic, Christhilf teaches English at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. He has poetry in Karamu, and is writing a book entitled, W. S. Merwin the Mythmaker.

LOLA HASKINS lives on a ranch north of Gainesville Florida and teaches computer science classes at the …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 2, John C. Burnham, Robert M. Khoury, Judith A. Spector, Leslie M. Thompson, Robert Wexelblatt, Pierre Papazian, Donald E. Secrest, Lucile Blanchard, Kelly Cherry, Martha Collins, Malcolm Glass, Robert Harlow, Duane Locke, George Looney, Naomi Shihab Nye, Cynthia S. Pederson, Jim Thomas, Kathleen Spivack, James Armstrong, Stephen Meats, Paul W. Zagorski, Philip Paradis, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Playing JOHN C. BURNHAM's new parlor game, "Who Is Now Great?” unexpectedly forms a negative consensus: the great men and women, like the dinosaurs, seem to belong to an earlier time, not to our own. The author wonders why, and shares his thoughts on the past, present, and future of greatness. Professor of History at The Ohio State University, with a scholarly interest in the history of psychiatry and American medical and social history, Burnham' s most recent book is on the psychoanalyst and physician Jelliffe.

ROBERT M. KHOURY and JUDITH A. SPECTOR explore the …

Contributions Of Empirical Data To Legal Research, Julius G. Getman

Journal of Legal Education

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 1, Virginia J. Laas, Mark A. Plummer, Jeffery A. Hughey, Robert K. Ratzlaff, A. J. Shakeshaft, Stuart Friebert, Julie S. Hughes, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The waters of historical research abound with shoals, whirlpools, and uncharted, if not unimportant, wastes. VIRGINIA J. LAAS relates one such encounter on a voyage of discovery related to the biography of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee she undertook with Dudley T. Cornish, a successful and altogether fortuitous collaboration which benefitted both scholars and their profession. The book which resulted, entitled The Life of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, U.S. Navy, will be published in early 1986 by The University Press of Kansas. The marriage in 1843 of the young naval officer, then a Lieutenant …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 4, Jonathan Rose, Susan L. Carlson, Gregory Waters, Ellen Williamson Kanervo, Richard M. Gardner, Jack D'Amico, Linda Walvoord Girard, Michael Burns, George Gott, Art Homer, Ben Howard, Ernest Kroll, Lolette Kuby, Laurie Sheck, Philip Raisor, Gary A. Schrag, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The man who created the child-spies of 1984, JONATHAN ROSE makes clear in his examination of George Orwell, was a writer filled with nostalgia for childhood. Assistant Professor of History at Drew University in New Jersey, Rose has recently completed a book-length manuscript on the intellectual history of Edwardian Britain and hopes to launch a scholarly journal devoted to the life and works of George Orwell.

Though current society has distanced them from us, the women of Edwardian problem plays, argues SUSAN L. CARLSON, do have something to tell us about our own social …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 3, Paul J. Muenzer, Hugh Fox, Ernest Gallo, Charles Guzzetta, Thomas D. Isern, Francis Edward Devine, Michael Heffernan, Lex Runciman, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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PAUL J. MUENZER presents a translation of the Minoan Phaistos Disk--a supplication for oracular wisdom from the prophet-king. Turning from a career as an electronics engineer, Muenzer became first a technical writer and for the last decade an archaeologist specializing in deciphering Linear A and Linear B texts. He lives and writes in Munich.

HUGH FOX conjures up a living, mythic, unified world of our cultural past in which Old World and New coexist and share a common reality. Author of over fifty books of poetry, criticism, fiction, plays, and Latin American scholarship, among …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 2, John A. Mills, William C. Pratt, Angela Hague, Clayton Koelb, Edward L. Galligan, John Churchill, Michael Heffernan, John Stone, Brendan Galvin, Gordon D. Marino, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JOHN A. MILLS finds in The Time of Your Life an absurdist meaning lurking below the surface vision of pleasant typicality. Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Mills has written several articles and a book, Hamlet on Stage: The Great Tradition, on the theater.

WILLIAM C. PRATT dissects the roles of the intellectual in contemporary society and finds merit still in that calling. Pratt is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His scholarly interest in the American left and farmer and labor movements has resulted in several …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 1, Otis C. Mitchell, James Tice Moore, David Lloyd Jones, Haig Bosmajian, Judith A. Spector, David W. Pitre, Ralph Burns, Paul Hamill, Michael Heffernan, Ben Howard, Stephen Meats, Eric Pankey, Stephen J. Teller, Richard D. Fulton, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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OTIS C. MITCHELL traces the rise of the desperado in Hungary and Italy in the bitter denouement of World War I. With extensive publications in the history of Nazism and totalarianism, Mitchell is author of Hitler Over Germany and editor of Nazism and the Common Man. He is Professor of History and Head of the Department at the University of Cincinnati.

JAMES TICE MOORE focuses on King Vidor's assertion of rural values and collective agriculture in his 1930s film, Our Daily Bread. Chairman and Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Moore has published …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 4, Anthony Channell Hilfer, Richard Dillman, Michael Gillum, Richard Nickson, Peter Scheckner, Abby Arthur Johnson, J. V. Brummels, Michael A. Carey, David Etter, Sam Hamill, Jaan Kaplinski, Mark Vinz, Judith G. Shaw, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ANTHONY CHANNELL HILFER pursues Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith' s faceless, sinister character, and finds him both other-directed and protean. Author of The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction and The Revolt from the Village, as well as articles on popular culture and criticism, Hilfer is Professor of English at the University of Texas in Austin. For the past year he has served as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Lancaster in England.

RICHARD DILLMAN suggests that Willa Cather fashioned Tom Outland more after the Transcendentalist ideal developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson than as …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 3, Peter Haley, Gorman Beauchamp, Susan M. Matarese, Paul G. Salmon, Alfred G. Killilea, Frederick R. Swan, Jennie M. Hornosty, David Lee, Susan Leigh Baughn, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The essence of Karl Marx's criticism of the modern world, argues PETER HALEY, rests more on ethics than economics. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, Haley has investigated the charisma concept in Weber and some of his precursors.

Theocracy, whether championed by a Solzhenitsyn or a Jerry Falwell, says GORMAN BEAUCHAMP, is fundamentally antidemocratic. Author of numerous articles on utopian fiction and of a recent book on Jack London, Beauchamp is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities in the College of Engineering at the University of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 2, John E. Atwell, William V. Davis, John R. Clark, Anna Lydia Motto, Francis Donahue, Joyce Quiring Erickson, Steven Barza, J. W. Cullum, Charles Edward Eaton, Michael Heffernan, Tomas O'Leary, William Page, Edward Wilson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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JOHN E. ATWELL explains Nietzsche's view that the dance expressed joy and represented belief in personal immortality. Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Atwell includes articles on Kant, Sartre, Schopenhauer, and Husserl among his publications.

Poet Robert Bly, according to WILLIAM V. DAVIS, has put new meaning and vigor into the prose poem, a development of historical significance to Bly and to American poetry. Currently Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Baylor University, Davis is a distinguished poet, is author also of criticism, short fiction, and the book, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, and …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 1, Frank W. Shelton, Marcy S. Powell, Cheryl Herr, William O'Neill, Richard J. Voorhees, Mark Allister, Peter Cooley, Albert Goldbarth, David Lee, Harold Witt, Robert L. Sheverbush, Robert Wexelblatt, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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In the view of FRANK W. SHELTON, E. L. Doctorow's first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, like his later bestsellers, involves an examination of both the unreality and the persistence of the American Dream. Professor of English at Limestone College in South Carolina, Shelton has published numerous articles on modern fiction and drama.

MARCY S. POWELL recounts Thoreau's journeys and finds the denizen of Walden Pond a dedicated observer of America. A traveller of note himself, Powell was until his retirement in 1974 Chairman of the Department of French and Latin at Miami University in …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 4, Alicia Ostriker, Jonathan Holden, Robert A. Morace, Judith A. Sheffler, Robert Dana, Greg Kuzma, J. V. Brummels, Albert Goldbarth, Carolann Russell, Donald Junkins, John Stone, Sam Hamill, Eric Pankey, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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OUR SUMMER LITERARY NUMBER this year, under the acting editorship of Poetry Editor Michael Heffernan, is entirely devoted to contemporary American literature. Since two of our articles discuss works by Richard Hugo and John Gardner, both of whom died last fall, we would like to dedicate this issue to their memories. Requiescant.

ALICIA OSTRIKER edited the Complete Poems of William Blake from Penguin (1978). A collection of her critical essays, Writing like a Woman, has just appeared in the Michigan series of Poets on Poetry. Her most recent book of poems is A Woman under …

General Karl N. Haushofer And Geopolitik, David P. Benorden

Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this research is to trace the mainstream of German and related geopolitical philosophy and the various aspects that influenced the philosophy from 1800 to 1945. Two themes evolved: Political Geography and Nationalism. Along with economic considerations, these themes were fused into Geopolitik by Karl Haushofer and his followers in Germany following the end of World War I.

The goal of this work is to trace Geopolitik to discover the significance of its implications, what was behind it, and what were its real objectives. Geopolitik is a German-developed "science'' based on doctrines and practices with its origins in …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 3, William F. Smith Jr., Walter S. G. Kohn, Sanford Pinkser, David M. Cicotello, Carol A. Martin, James F. Maxfield, Jack Flavin, Greg Kuzma, Thomas P. Lynch, Tom Hansen, James E. Gilbert, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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WILLIAM F. SMITH, JR., reveals the depth of meaning, both for students of the American Indian and for those seeking better to know the human personality, in the historical novel, Seven Arrows. Now Chairman of the English Department at Saginaw Valley State College in Michigan, Smith has published extensively on topics dealing with American Indian literature.

Joining the parliamentary and the presidential types of democratic government, according to WALTERS. G. KOHN, is a new, French model, the "presidential prerogative system." Author of many articles on politics in Liechtenstein and the rest of Western Europe, Kohn …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 2, Robert M. Kahn, H. Roger Grant, James Fulcher, Roy Lechtreck, Charles E. Wynes, Narasingha Prosad Sil, Robert Dana, Michael Burns, Gibbons Ruark, Michael J. Kelly, V. J. Emmett Jr., Therese M. Jones, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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BRUCE DANIEL joins The Midwest Quarterly as the new Book Review Editor and replaces Michael Connaughton who, after valiant service to Pittsburg State University and to this journal, has moved on to St. Cloud University in Minnesota. Bruce Daniel is professor of physics and director of the Kelce Planetarium at Pittsburg State. He studied music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, taught violin in Kansas City, and served nine years as concertmaster of the university symphony. He holds a B.S. degree in engineering physics, M.S. in radiation biophysics, and Ph.D. in physics …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 1, Arthur L. Kalleberg, John M. Theilmann, Ashby Bland Crowder, Charles Stroh, Robert W. Hoffert, John L. Dusseau, J. V. Brummels, Michael Burns, Jeannine Dobbs, William Hathaway, Harold Witt, Devon Jersild, Eugene H. Degruson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ARTHUR L. KALLEBERG assesses the recent, tentative attempts to reconcile Marxism with Christianity and concludes that proponents of both must make concessions to effect a more perfect union. Middlebush Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Kalleberg has published numerous scholarly articles in his discipline and is now at work on a book dealing with social justice.

Through a discussion of certain aspects of medieval history, JOHN M. THEILMANN examines the value for historians of symbolic anthropology and finds much to recommend a mutual sharing of the two approaches. Author of many papers …

Kay Saunders' Review Of Andrew C. Theophaneous' Australian Democracy In Crisis: A New Theoretical Introduction To Australian Politics, Kay Saunders

Pacific Studies

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 4, Judith Rinde Sheridan, Andrew Hudgins, Carol Helmstetter Cantrell, Cordelia Candelaria, Melvin J. Thorne, Robert J. Coard, Charles Edward Eaton, Robert Funge, Greg Kuzma, Judy Ruiz, Bruce Cutler, Kathleen L. Nichols, Branley Allan Branson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JUDITH RINDE SHERIDAN suggests that the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, employs sexual love as a means of depicting both good and evil in the world. Author of an article on Wallace Stevens, Sheridan has also exhibited a continuing interest in Jewish literature. She currently teaches in the English Department at Salisbury State College in Maryland.

For ANDREW HUDGINS Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass marks the transition from the traditional to the modern epic. Hudgins has published his own poems and his articles on modern and contemporary poetry in numerous journals. He is presently a …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 3, Steve Glassman, Charles Harmon Cagle, William C. Baurecht, Giles Mitchell, L. Robert Stevens, Robert Wexelblatt, James David Fairbanks, Jack Flavin, David Ewick, Liz Mayer, Theodora Todd, J. T. Knoll, Walter Shear, Kelly Cherry, Carol Walker Mackay, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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STEVE GLASSMAN finds David Livingstone neither a saint nor a devil in examining the explorer's dramatic 1848 confrontation with the Boer leaders. Glassman teaches English at the University of Miami (Florida) and is pursuing a degree in the Goddard M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College. He has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary magazines.

CHARLES HARMON CAGLE discusses the role of Gertrude Stein in introducing the young Ernest Hemingway to the works of Paul Cézanne and the interplay of their creative influences on Hemingway's writing. Cagle also contributes a review of John Wheatcroft's newest book of …