The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
The Myth of Decline in A Handful of Dust
Martyrs or Murderers? A Defense of Innocence
The Artist as Fiction: An Aesthetics of Failure in Samuel Beckitt's Trilogy
Average Is Not Good: A Reaction to Student Evaluations
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Language
Beccaria and the Liberal Tradition in Anglo-American Criminal Jurisprudence
NOTE
Etiquette for Ginger Men: A Critical Assessment of Donleavy's Unexpurgated Code 210
POETRY
Hotel Tall Corn
Scarecrow Watching a Snowstorm
The Smell of Lilacs
Omaha
Two on Porch
From Lines Before I Fall Asleep
Visitation
Sortition
Use
To My Unicorn
Thrushes on the Eve of Parting
REVIEW
Edie Tells: A Portrait of the Artist as Middle-Aged Cleaning Woman by John Wheatcroft
Abstract
in this issue . . .
JANE NARDIN, who writes about attitudes toward the past and the present in Waugh's A Handful of Dust, received her Ph. D. from SUNY at Buffalo and teaches English at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. She has published a book on Jane Austen and a number of articles and reviews.
MARVIN MANDELL, who disputes Rollo May's view of "Billy Budd" and of events at Kent State, received his Ph. D. from the University of Iowa and teaches at Curry College. His short stories have appeared in a number of magazines, and one of them was reprinted in Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories: 1972.
MARK J. SACHNER, who writes about Samuel Beckett's trilogy, is working toward the Ph. D. at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.
DUANE EDWARDS, who shares his reaction to student evaluations, received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin and teaches English at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has published short stories and poems, as well as critical essays in a number of journals including MQ.
HARRY J. AUSMUS, who examines Schopenhauer's philosophy of language, received his Ph. D. from Ohio State University and teaches European intellectual history at Southern Connecticut State College. His articles and reviews have appeared in several journals.
FRANCIS EDWARD DEVINE, who calls our attention to the legal theory of Cesare Beccaria and its place in our tradition, teaches criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received his Ph. D. from Syracuse University and has published articles on political philosophy.
CHARLES G. MASINTON, who looks at Donleavy's parody of the etiquette-book form, received his Ph. D. from the University of Oklahoma and teaches American literature at the University of Kansas. He has published books on Christopher Marlowe and on Donleavy, as well as essays on Renaissance and modern literature.
JENNINGS BLACKMON, who reviews John Wheatcroft's Edie Tells, received his Ph. D. from the University of Arkansas and teaches English at KSCP.
DAVE ETIER has moved to Elburn, Illinois. He is still busy editing manuscripts for Northern Illinois University Press.
Louis GINSBERG, a truly gentle man and a good friend of ours, died on July 7, 1976, in Patterson, New Jersey. He was 81.
EDWARD HIRSCH lives in Philadelphia. He has published in a variety of magazines, including The Nation and Antioch Review.
BEN HOWARD is in Cambridge, England, working on a critical study of post-war British poetry.
CHRISTOPHER HOWELL edits and publishes books of prose and poetry with Lynx House Press in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Recommended Citation
Nardin, Jane; Mandell, Marvin; Sachner, Mark J.; Edwards, Duane; Ausmus, Harry J.; Devine, Francis E.; Masinton, Charles G.; Etter, Dave; Ginsberg, Louis; Hirsch, Edward; Howard, Ben; Howell, Christopher; Blackmon, Jennings; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1977)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 2,"
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