The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Political Cultures in America
Ideology vs. Rhetoric in American Politics
American Policy in Asia: Tenacity in the Pursuit of Folly
The Rhetoric of Martin Luther King’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”
Television Drama: The Appeals of the Senate Watergate Hearings
McLuhanism: A Massage that Muddles
The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857: The New Look
Utopia and Its Discontents
The Literature of Acedia
Jimmy Porters Past: The Logic of Rage in Look Back in Anger
Frost and the Deeper Vision
The Southern Aristocrat
Abstract
in this issue. . .
TWENTY YEARS AGO, Dudley T. Cornish launched The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought. Since that time, we have published nearly five hundred articles on art, biology, drama, economics, fiction, government, history, law, pedagogy, philosophy, poetry, politics, psychology, rhetoric, sociology, and even thermodynamics. Since 1960, MQ also has published poetry, at which a later issue will glance back. To the editors, "contemporary thought" never has meant primarily "thought on contemporary events," and our contributors have been concerned not only with the contemporary world but also with classicial antiquity and the Middle Ages; nevertheless, it would have been impossible to publish a general scholarly journal between 1959 and 1979 without noticing that there were a cold war, a civil-rights movement, assassinations, a war in Vietnam, a Watergate, a counter culture, a detente, a rapprochement, a new feminism, and a series of new Presidents, poets, judges, novelists, dramatists, and diplomats who have stimulated contemporary thinkers. In compiling this anthology I have been unable to ignore all these phenomena, but my intent has not been to encapsulate the history of the last twenty years. It has been merely to assemble from our first twenty volumes a dozen essays that show where in the world of prose MQ has been. This twentieth-anniversary issue is intended as a retrospective chart of the journal's course, which was set by Dudley T. Cornish and steered by Rebecca Patterson from 1967 to 1975, and which I have tried to maintain.
-V.J. Emmett, Jr.
Recommended Citation
Spencer, Martin E.; Shienbaum, Kim Ezra; Shepardson, Donald E.; Bosmajian, Haig A.; Paletz, David L.; Gambino, Richard; Nutt, Katherine F.; Beauchamp, Gorman; Michaelson, L. W.; Murphy, Brian; Bort, Barry D.; Boney, F. N.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1979)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 21 No. 1,"
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