The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Self and Tradition in Recent Poetry
Jimmy Porter and the Logic of Rage in Look Back in Anger
Literary Allusion as Satire in Simon Gray s Butley
Women as Vampires: Dracula as a Victorian Novel
Mrs. Dalloway: "Buds on the Tree of Life”
The Double Life in Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
POEMS
Leaving Washington
Design
Prayer for the New Year
My Father's Secret
Daylight: Another Showdown
In the Blood
Crime Stopper’s Notebook
Vesuvius Crucible
A Little Whet
Balance/Mullion
Silence
Evolution: A Song
Read
Song: Goodbye
REVIEWS
Comings Back by Albert Goldbarth
Heartland II edited by Lucien Stryk
Cumberland Station by Dave Smith
Looking forward
Pain and Suffering
Abstract
in this issue . . .
ERNEST GALLO, whose story "Pain and Suffering" appears in the Looking Forward section of this issue, teaches medieval literature at The University of Massachusetts.
CAROL H. CANTRELL, who reexamines the relationships among "confessional" poets and who also reviews Albert Goldbarth's Comings Back, received her Ph. D. from Northwestern University and teaches at Colorado State University.
BRIAN MURPHY, who explains what one of the angry young men was angry about, did his graduate work at Harvard and The University of London and teaches at Oakland University in Michigan. He has published articles on the film and on British fiction.
SOPHIA B. BLAYDES, who examines the satire in Butley, received her Ph. D. from Indiana University and teaches at West Virginia University. She has published a book on Christopher Smart and a number of articles.
JUDITH WEISSMAN, who looks at Dracula in terms of Victorian sexual stereotypes, received her Ph. D. from The University of California at San Diego and teaches at Syracuse University. She has published articles on British fiction.
RANDOLPH PERAZZINI, who writes about Mrs. Dalloway, received his Ph. D. from Cornell and teaches English at Kansas State College of Pittsburg.
MARY W. SCHNEIDER, who writes about Stevenson, Spark, and the Brodies, received her Ph. D. from The University of Minnesota and teaches at Kansas State University. She was an associate editor of Critique and has published several articles on Matthew Arnold.
THOMAS O. CALHOUN teaches at the University of Delaware.
DAVID CLEWELL'S Room to Breathe was published last year by Pentagram Press. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
GERALD COSTANZO teaches at Carnegie-Mellon. His Wage the Improbable Happiness will appear from Copper Canyon.
ALBERT GOLDBARTH is back in Ithaca, New York. His Jan. 31 was nominated for the 1975 National Book Award in poetry. His latest collection, Comings Back, is reviewed in this issue.
RON SLATE, who reviews Lucien Stryk's anthology, Heartland II, edits The Chowder Review in Madison, Wisconsin.
JACK CARPENTER, who reviews Dave Smith's Cumberland Station, received his Ph. D. from The University of Kansas. He 1s Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and teaches English at Kansas State University. He is coauthor of The Art of Drama, which appeared recently from Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
Recommended Citation
Cantrell, Carol Helmstetter; Murphy, Brian; Blaydes, Sophia B.; Weissman, Judith; Perazzini, Randolph; Schneider, Mary W.; Calhoun, Thomas O.; Clewell, David; Costanzo, Gerald; Goldbarth, Albert; Slate, Ron; Carpenter, Jack; Gallo, Ernest; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1977)
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