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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 …

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? …

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LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 3, Spring 1991. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

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

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 …

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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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 …

When Gorillas Do Philosophy: Philosophy At Pittsburg State University, 1912-1990, Donald W. Viney

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Charles B. Pyle (1872-1957), who received his doctorate in philosophy from Boston University under the direction of E. S. Brightman, taught at the Kansas State Teacher's College--now Pittsburg State University--from 1924 until 1947 and was chair of the Department of Psychology and Philosophy from 1924 until 1942. He introduced the basic curriculum in philosophy at the university and, in his final years, directed the thesis of Prescott Johnson (perhaps the only philosophy master's thesis to have been completed at PSU). Johnson went on to teach at Monmouth College in Illinois. This article traces philosophy at PSU from the time 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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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 …

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LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 2, Spring 1990. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

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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in this issue. . .

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 …

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, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 3, Matthew Melko, Jon Roper, Arthur A. Molitierno, Michael Ponsford, Robert E. Fleming, Alan Nadel, Phyllis Janik, Jennings M. Blackmon, Jo Mcdougall, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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These are normal times, not crisis times, in the other-end-of-the-telescope view of MATTHEW MELKO, and we should value this age as such and use this insight to improve the lives of others and ourselves. A professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a pioneer in worldview studies, Melko's essay here summarizes thoughts which will shortly be given book-length treatment by Paragon. This is Melko's second article in The Midwest Quarterly.

JON ROPER discusses the ethical dimension of democracy as it passed from the Greeks to Americans …

Role Models In The Creation/Evolution Controversy, Donald W. Viney

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The Creation/Evolution controversy, as it is presented in popular literature, often reinforces the idea of a warfare between science and religion. The purposes of this paper are, first, to unravel some of the strands of argument that lend support to the warfare motif and, second to demonstrate that the intellectual landscape since Darwin does not support a view that would make evolution and creation irreconcilable hypotheses.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 2, Robert Wexelblatt, Kenneth L. Golden, Christopher S. Durer, William Casement, Wheeler Winston Dixon, James I. Weingartner, Mark Christhilf, Tom Saya, Kathleen Johnson, Richard Tucker, Duncan Moran, Phil Stephens, Michael J. O'Brien, Elmer Suderman, Marion Schoeberlein, Sidney R. Thompson, Hugh C. Abernethy Jr., Al Ortolani, Jo Mcdougall, James D. Miley, Pamela Yenser, Twyla Hansen, Amil Quayle, Christopher Cokinos, Michael A. Carey, Angela Cooper, V. J. Emmett Jr., Charles Cagle, Gene Degruson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Out of nothing, something. ROBERT WEXELBLATT examines the meaning of the creative act and scrutinizes the first sentences of major works to illustrate the writer's power to fashion time and place and character in the choice, juxtaposition, and concatenation of words. Now Chairperson of the Division of Humanities at Boston University, Wexelblatt writes scholarly articles on literary subjects (recently on Fitzgerald, Lawrence, Camus, and Nietzsche), stories, and poetry, as well as essays, several of which have graced The Midwest Quarterly.

Literary critics too frequently mistake the leaves for the forest, and by failing to explore …

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

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in this issue. . .

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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in this issue. . .

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 …

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LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 1, Fall 1988. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

Combating Theological Ignorance, Donald W. Viney

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Theological ignorance is, in large measure, a product of two otherwise positive things: separation of church and state and public funded education up to the secondary level. The result is that students coming into universities are often not taught to think critically or creatively about theological topics. I suggest strategies and resources for dealing with this ignorance through familiarity with the Bible, familiarity with theology and philosophy, and familiarity with issues pertaining to the concept of God.

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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in this issue. . .

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

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in this issue. . .

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 …

How To Argue For God's Existence: Reflections On Hartshorne's Global Argument, Donald W. Viney

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Charles Hartshorne challenges the supposed truism that one cannot prove, or at least cannot make a strong rational argument for, the existence of God. Hartshorne makes at least four advances on previous efforts. First, he employs a "global" or multiple argument strategy, also known as a cumulative case, and thus he does not require any single argument to do all the work for theism. Second, he insists that the issue of God's existence is conceptual, not empirical, and thereby he avoids the trap of thinking that God must be a hypothesis in science. Third, he uses position matrices to emphasize …

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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in this issue. . .

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

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in this issue. . .

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 …

On Theological Ignorance, Donald W. Viney

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Defenders of Creation-Science treat the Bible as, among other things, an infallible oracle on matters of science. Two problems with this view are that it leads to mistaken scientific ideas but also that it ignores what mainstream theologians have said about the Bible, namely, that it is not a science book. Creation-Science is a product of theological ignorance.

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 …

Faith And The Many-Tiered Structure Of Belief, Donald W. Viney

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Elaborating on the work of Alvin Plantinga and the concept of noetic structures, I argue that the concept of a rational belief is flexible enough to tolerate a certain degree of uncertainty and inability to answer criticism of the belief. This flexibility, moreover, is an essential component in the concept of a rational faith in God.