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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 …

In The Shadow Of Oriental Culture: A Study Of The Impact Of Confucianism On Japan's Economic Development After World War Ii, Xuedong Xu

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Japan's fast economic growth after World War II can be ascribed to different factors. This study seeks to determine whether the cultural factor, more specifically Confucianism in Japanese version, has constituted the dynamism behind the success stories of Japan. The study approaches the problem by examining the Confucian doctrine and original works of important Japanese philosophers concerning the Confucian ethics and values, which are recrystallized into new organizational patterns in industrial corporation. While the period after World War II is the focus of the study, the unique features of Japanese industry like "Life-time Employment" and "Groupism" are reviewed to determine …

Kantianism And Emile Durkheim's Ethical Theory, Maureen Lyons '91

Honors Projects

Durkheim owes much of his ethical theory to Kant, and wishes to retain a great deal of Kantianism in the theory. However, he does so at great cost to his own theory. Instead of reconciling the competing claims of rationalism and empiricism, which is his ultimate goal in utilizing Kant, Durkheim ends up with an ethical theory which is full of contradictions and which is basically a solely empiricist account of morality. By exploring both Kant's and Durkheim's ethical theories, I will demonstrate both the problems inherent in Durkheim's attempt to reconcile rationalism and empiricism, and his failure in retaining …

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? …

Jeffrey Clark's Review Of John Leroy's Fabricated World: An Interpretation Of Kewa Tales, Jeffrey Clark

Pacific Studies

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(1991) The Community Of Inquiry And Educational Structure., David K. Kennedy

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

Young people engaged in philosophical dialogue sometimes exhibit resistance to the program, expressed in boredom, impatience, and sometimes even rejection. My theory is that, in addition to a lot of reasons like the ones just cited, the problem has to do with the way schools and classrooms are structured, which in turn is the result of an overall educational model--what Matthew Lipman has referred to as "tribal" or "information-acquisition" education. I want to argue that there is a "new" educational model—in fact it is already about 200 years old—and that it has the strucmral characteristics which provide place for what …

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 …

Overall Laughing One And The Experiences, Anina Porter Adams

Institute for the Humanities Theses

A fictional play based on the study of writings by psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung. The action is set in the imaginary realm of archetypes, amoral personified energies which appear in tales from diverse cultures. In this play the mythical characters move in an ordered, ritualistic manner. They are dependent upon a geometrically centered black box for the provision of human forms through which they experience "being." A female is the human form provided in this instance and she combines her own energy with that of the other characters though she is not conscious of this fact. The archetypal energies focus …

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

A Comparative Analysis Of Indiana Legislator And Lobbyist Concepts Of Persuasion Strategies, Rebecca A. Carrier

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study uses Q-methodology to describe lobbyists' and legislators' perceptions of persuasion strategies used in lobbying. Twenty lobbyists and legislators in the Indiana General Assembly participated in the study by sorting statements about lobbying strategies under three conditions of instruction. Lobbyists were asked to sort statements according to what they use to pass legislation, block legislation, and to describe their ideal strategies. Legislators were asked to sort statements according to which statements they encounter most when lobbyists were attempting to pass legislation, block legislation, and which strategies legislators would have lobbyists use ideally. The study found one factor accounted for …

John Rawls, The Conception Of A Liberal Self, And The Communitarian Critique, Johnathan Edward Mansfield

Dissertations and Theses

John Rawls' A Theory of Justice stands as the single most important work in the Anglo-American liberal tradition after World War II. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls revives the social contract doctrine in order to determine principles of justice that would be chosen by persons who are free and equal moral individuals. Since Rawls believes that no single conception of the good can establish justice in a pluralistic society, he posits a set of principles of right which are prior to any particular good. Thus his theory, which he calls "justice as fairness," is deontological. Since its publication …

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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

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

On The Critical Tribunal, Stephen Watson

Cardozo Law Review

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Proposed Organization And Detailed Table Of Contents - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

For many years copyright was a backwater of the law. Perceived as an esoteric and narrow field beset by hypertechnical formalities, the discipline and its practitioners were largely isolated from scholarly and case law developments in other areas. There were exceptions of course. Well before the explosion of intellectual property litigation in the last twenty years, persons such as Zcharia Chaffee Jr. and Judge Learned Hand brought a wealth of learning and a broad perspective to copyright.

Draft Of New Versus Old Authors - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

Virtually all the issues canvassed above embody the tension that exists in seeking to honor the interests of two generations of creators. For example, the essay has discussed the need for new adaptive artists to have a copyright in their own productions and the dangers that the "subconscious copying rule" poses to new creators, particularly in an age of ubiquitous media.

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

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

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

Temps Perdu Et Temps Vécu: Cross-Cultural Nuances In The Experience Of Time Among The Enga, Roderic Lacey

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Professor Brudner's Crisis, Ernest J. Weinrib

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism, And Public Decision-Making, Kristin Shrader-Frechette

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

An examination of the legitimacy of attacks on lay assessments of environmental or other technological Risk. The case is made that rational policy requires an epistemology in which what we believe about Risk is bootstrapped onto how we should act concerning Risk.

A Question Of Journalism Ethics, Lucinda D. Davenport

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

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Establishing The Phenomenon: The Rhetoric Of Early Research Reports On Aids, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In the first three medical reports on AIDS which were published in 1981 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the writers' primary rhetorical agenda was to argue that a new medical discovery had been made. A secondary agenda was to offer etiological explanations for the new problem. To establish the new disease entity as deserving serious attention, the writers built a sense of mystery by confronting established medical knowledge about immunodeficiency and emphasizing the inability of modern medicine to diagnose and treat the problem. When they explained the phenomenon in etiological terms, rather than confronting the disciplinary matrix, the …

The "L-Word": A Short History Of Liberalism, Terence Ball, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

Hence the question: Are these good or bad times for liberalism? To answer, we shall need a broader perspective than a survey of contemporary developments can provide. We shall need to look back, that is, to see what liberalism was in order to understand what it has become. Only then can we assess its current condition and prospects-and appreciate how politics in the United States is largely an intramural debate between different wings of liberalism.

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

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

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

(1990) Fools, Young Children, And Philosophy, David K. Kennedy

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

Like the fool for the king, the modern child of the Romantics represents for the adult original human nature in all its ambiguity and ambivalence. The child's nature, like the fool's, is both fallen and innocent, amoral and beyond morality and what is even more confusing, alternately one or the other. The child's unsocialized presence reveals and exposes the imperfections of the socialized world of adult artifice and hypocrisy. The child's very simplicity seems perverse by reason of the corruption of the adults who so judge him or her. The child is a question put to the adult world, a …

Donald H. Rubinstein's Review Of Catherine A. Lutz's Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments On A Micronesian Atoll And Their Challenge To Western Theory, Donald H. Rubinstein

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Values In Personality Development, Joanne Peterson

Institute for the Humanities Theses

As an important element of human life, values play a distinctive role in structuring the developing personality. Considerations of this role are discussed from an objective, subjective, and situational perspective, recognized as three known value orientations incorporated into differing personality theories. Initial inquiries suggest that values are not as important as the degree to which an individual commits to a moral life and then employs this viewpoint in sorting through various alternatives to select those beliefs, attitudes and behaviors best reflecting this commitment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kant's Political Theory And Philosophy Of History, Philip J. Kain

Philosophy

Kant combined two traditional approaches in his political theory, reference to a utopian and ideal universal moral order in common with Plato, Thomas More, and Jean Jacques Rousseau and an analysis of the pursuit of individual self-interest leading to the establishment of laws that enable citizens to satisfy their interests, like Thomas Hobbes, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Adam Smith. Kant focused on the international level, arguing that following the categorical imperative would arrange a society equitably while national commercial self-interest would lead to a league of nations to adjudicate international disputes. Kant was unique in providing both a theory of an …