The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Character as Revealed Cliche in Wright Morris's Fiction
Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Parable for Our Time?
Civilization as Emasculation: The Threatening Role of Women in the Frontier Fiction of Harold Bell Wright and Zane Grey
Trollope's Racial Bias against Disraeli
David Storey and the Invisible Event
The Philosophy Game in Tom Stoppard's Professional Foul
POEMS
From Platte Valley Homestead
For Weldon Kees
It
Riders
Night Fall along the Big Piney River
The Visitation
Abstract
in this issue . . .
DAVID MADDEN, who examines Wright Morris's use of cliches, is writer-in-residence at Louisiana State University. In addition to his eight novels, he has also published fourteen books of criticism.
JUDITH A. SPECTOR, who finds more magic than science in Miller's science fiction, received her Ph.D. from Indiana University and teaches English at the Indiana-Purdue Columbus Campus.
FRITZ OEHLSCHLAEGER, who exposes the hostility to civilization in the fiction of Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright, received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and teaches English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has published a number of articles on American literature.
BERTHA KEVESON HERTZ, who investigates Trollope's anti-Semitism and envy of Disraeli, received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and teaches English at St. Hyacinth's College and Seminary. She has published several articles on Disraeli.
LEWIS E. SHELTON, who pursues the varieties of invisible events through the works of David Storey, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and teaches theatre at Kansas State University. He has directed numerous productions.
RICHARD J. BUHR, who covers Tom Stoppard's philosophy game, is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois. He has published on Stoppard and on Gilbert Cannan.
WILLIAM KLOEFKORN teaches at Nebraska Wesleyan in Lincoln. His most recent book of poems, Not Such a Bad Place to Be, was published last year by Copper Canyon Press. In 1978, he won the Nebraska Championship for hog-calling.
GREG KUZMA lives in Crete, Nebraska, and teaches at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His latest book, Of China and of Greece, is due soon.
KAREN LASKEY is completing a year as a graduate assistant in the English Department at Pittsburg State. Her sestina in this issue is one of her first publications.
AL ORTOLANI teaches English at Pittsburg High School and works evenings as a chimney-sweep.
Recommended Citation
Madden, David; Spector, Judith A.; Oehlschlaeger, Frtiz H.; Hertz, Bertha Keveson; Shelton, Lewis E.; Buhr, Richard J.; Kloefkorn, William; Kuzma, Greg; Laskey, Karen; Ortolani, Al; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1981)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 22 No. 4,"
The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 22:
Iss.
4, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/mwq/vol22/iss4/1