The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 1

Authors

• 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

Contents

ARTICLES 

Can Philosophers Cooperate Intellectually? Metaphysics as Applied Mathematics  

Hobnobbing with Euclid 

Masks and Masquerade: The Iconography of the Harlem Renaissance  

Spike Lee: Protest, Literary Tradition, and the Individual Filmmaker  

“Psychological Accidents": In Cold Blood and Ritual Sacrifice  

George Eliot’s “Janet’s Repentance”: First Literary Portrait of a Woman Addict and Her Recovery  

POEMS 

Crow  

Omega Farms  

Snake Pit 

Walking Home 

Voice on the Train Out of Grand Central 

Latitudes  

Returning to Standard Time 

Passion Weather 

Womb Regalia  

August by the Willow 

History 

Last Week in the Cottage 

Resurrection 

War Song 

Mine  

REVIEWS 

Douglas Robinson; Ring Lardner and the Other 

Lewis Edwin Hahn, Editor; The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne 

Abstract

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 and Fibonacci's famous numbers, RICHARD MOORE hopes to make us visualize Euclidian geometrical relationships. Author of a novel, several books of poems, and poetry and essays in numerous periodicals, Moore began about a decade ago to publish essays on literature and science, one of which, "Tristram on Mathematics: A Poet's View," appeared in the Winter 1982 Midwest Quarterly.

Just what did the Harlem Renaissance say to and about African-Americans and to white society? This is PATTI CAPEL SWARTZ's topic, and she uses the mask/Signifying Monkey image to explain how one audience (black) saw one thing and another (white) a different meaning. Currently a doctoral student at the Claremont Graduate School in English, Swartz has previously published essays and poetry in various anthologies and wrote a docu-drama about women and work that was produced in 1988.

DEBORAH ATHY, Columbus, Ohio, completed a master's degree in English at Ohio State University. This is her first publication in a journal outside Ohio.

JIM CIHLAR, Lincoln, Nebraska, has published poems in Bitterroot, Plainsongs, and Leaves of Grass, and has been an editorial assistant for Prairie Schooner and Great Plains Quarterly. He studied poetry writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop and is currently an English instructor at the University of Nebraska. ANNE COLWELL lives and writes in Lewes, Delaware, and teaches at the Delaware Technical and Community College of the University of Delaware.

GEORGE GOTT lives and writes in Superior, Wisconsin, and teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

DOUGLAS GRAY, Sunbury, Ohio, chairs the English Department at the Pontifical College Josephinium in Columbus and lives with wife, cats, and horses in the wilds of Ohio.

MICHELE KRUEGER, Tonganoxie, Kansas, graduated from Lehman College and attended San Francisco State University before becoming a student of Spiritual Master Sri Da Avabhasa. She has been a practitioner of The Way of the Heart for more than eighteen years and has published devotional poetry in Laughing Man Magazine.

REBECCA A. LILLY, Barboursville, Virgina, is a student in the Master of Fine Arts Program at Cornell University and has published poems in Verse and The William and Mary Review.

LINDA PENNISI, Syracuse, New York, recently completed a bachelor's degree in English at LeMoyne College and entered the Master of Fine Arts program at Vermont College. Her poems have appeared in Paintbrush, Nightsun, and The Spoon River Quarterly. She worked as a nurse in the mental health field before starting her family and her writing career.

BRUCE TAYLOR, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has published poems in The New York Quarterly, The Literary Review, The Texas Review, and other journals. Miller Williams selected some of Taylor's work for publication in Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms (LSU Press). Taylor is currently Professor of English and faculty grants scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and is poetry editor of Transactions: The Journal of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. His first full-length collection of poetry was published in 1993 by Juniper Press.

Thinking Spike Lee protesteth too much, SANFORD PINSKER suggests others have been more effective in delineating racism and its cancer as well as the humanity of African-Americans, their dreams, their anger, and their anguish. Author of many books of literary criticism and poetry, including several on Jewish-American literature, and co-editor of Holocaust Studies Annual and Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Pinsker is presently at work on two more books, one on the late Irving Howe and the other on humorists Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, James Thurber, and Woody Allen.

Confronted with the evil that men do, society too often wishes the villain to be something other than human, to be an alien beast, for only in that way are the good people safe from their neighbors. This subject BRIAN CONNIFF examines by looking into the Clutter murders that Truman Capote novelized as In Cold Blood. Assistant Professor of English at the University of Dayton, Conniff has published a book on Lyric and Modern Poetry and essays on twentieth-century writers. He is working on two books, one on the prison and literature and the other on the poetry of W.H. Auden.

Predating modern studies of alcoholism, George Eliot gave us, as STEPHANIE DEMETRAKOPOULOS demonstrates, the first accurate literary portraits of a male and female alcoholic without the posturing amiability of other works which conceal the tragedy and pain of reality. Professor of English at Western Michigan University, Demetrakopoulos is author of Listening to Our Bodies: The Rebirth of Feminine Wisdom and co-author of a book on the novels of Toni Morrison. She is working on a book dealing with recovery from addiction and cancer.

CHARLES CAGLE teaches creative writing at Pittsburg State and practices it as well. His latest work, “The Ballad of Spring River," is one of three prize-winning novellas m a book entitled III Novellas and published by Woodley Memorial Press of Topeka.

DONALD WAYNE VINEY, resident philosopher at this institution, is the author of Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God (1985) and As Philosopher Looks at the Bible (1992), the latter published as Occasional Paper Number 1 by the Friends of Timmons Chapel, Pittsburg State University.

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Recommended Citation

Hartshorne, Charles; Moore, Richard; Swartz, Patti Capel; Pinsker, Sanford; Conniff, Brian; Demetrakopoulos, Stephanie; Athy, Deborah; Cihlar, Jim; Colwell, Anne; Gott, George; Gray, Douglas; Krueger, Michele; Lilly, Rebecca A.; Pennisi, Linda; Taylor, Bruce; Cagle, Charles; Viney, Donald Wayne; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1993) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 1," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 35: Iss. 1, Article 1.
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