The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
A Reading of “Widsith”
Myth and Morals in The Mill on the Floss
The Subterranean Intellectual of Middlemarch
Games People Play in Huckleberry Finn
John Proctor's Playing in The Crucible
John Gardner and the Defense of Fiction
POEMS
Hungover Blues: A Riff for the American Academy of Religion
The December Breakfast Poems
Midnight in Missouri
Rankin Ridge: Only an Ancient Moon
Nude, 1978
Listen to the:
The Angel
The King's Destinies
The Kings' s Melancholy
The Exit
Away
Sleep
REVIEWS
The Tempo Changes. The Lights Go Up. The Partners Change by Thomas McAfee
Alliance, Illinois by Dave Etter
Snake in the Strawberries: Selected Poems by James Hearst
The Arc from Now by Richard C. Gustafson
Trunk & Thicket by Robert Morgan
Abstract
in this issue . . .
LAMAR YORK, who looks into the milieu of "Widsith," teaches English at DeKalb College in Atlanta and is working on his doctorate at Emory University. This is his second appearance in MQ.
THOMAS L. JEFFERS, who finds an Eden on the banks of George Eliot's Floss, received his Ph. D. from Yale and teaches English at Cornell. He has published articles on nineteenth-century fiction.
HENRY ALLEY, who investigates the intellectual underground of Eliot's Middlemarch, received his Ph. D. from Cornell and teaches English at The University of Idaho. He has published a number of articles and stories. Portions of this article were read at the Conference on British Studies—Pacific Northwest Region.
WALTER SHEAR, who observes the games people play on the banks of Twain's Mississippi, and also reviews Dave Etter' s latest book of poems, received his Ph. D. from Wisconsin and teaches English at Pittsburg State. He has published articles on American literature.
WILLIAM T. LISTON, who notes the playfulness of John Proctor's mind in Miller's Salem, received his Ph. D. from Illinois and teaches English at Ball State. He has published on the drama and on American fiction.
W. P. FITZPATERICK, who follows Gardner's defense of fiction, received his Ph. D. from The University of Maryland (College Park) and teaches English at West Virginia. He has published articles, stories, and poems.
J. W. CULLUM, who renders three variations on a breakfast theme, lives in Atlanta.
LINDA M. HASSELSTROM, whose poems reflect life on the high plains, edits the Lame Johnny Press in Hermosa, South Dakota.
LYN LIFSHIN, who invites us to listen, lives in Niskayuna, New York.
SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER, who establishes a melancholy monarchy, lives in Brooklyn.
THEODORA TODD, for whom sleep is not a mere metaphor for death, lives in Wichita.
GENE DeGRUSON, who reviews Thomas McAfee's The Tempo Changes. The Lights Go Up. The Partners Change, is in charge of special collections at the Pittsburg State University Library. His articles and poems have appeared in a number of magazines.
SUE J. LIVINGSTON, who reviews James Hearst's Snake in the Strawberries, is a graduate student at Pittsburg State.
MICHAEL E. CONNAUGHTON, who reviews Richard C. Gustafson’s The Arc from Now, received his Ph. D. from Indiana and teaches English at Pittsburg State.
CAROL WALKER MacKAY, who reviews Robert Morgan's Trunk & Thicket, received her Ph. D. from Kentucky and teaches English at Pittsburg State.
Recommended Citation
York, Lamar; Jeffers, Thomas L.; Alley, Henry; Shear, Walter; Liston, William T.; Fitzpatrick, W. P.; Cullum, J. W.; Hasselstrom, Linda M.; Lifshin, Lyn; Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg; Todd, Theodora; DeGruson, Gene; Livingston, Sue J.; Connaughton, Michael E.; MacKay, Carol Walter; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1979)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 4,"
The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 20:
Iss.
4, Article 1.
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