The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Livingstone Confronts the Boer Commandants
"Cézanne Nearly Did": Stein, Cezanne, and Hemingway
Separation, Initiation, and Return: Schizophrenic Episode in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Darwin and the Heroic Conception of Chance
On the Law of Supply and Demand
Reagan, Religion, and the New Right
POEMS
Dunbar's Lament for the Makaris
An Old Man Playing a Pipe
Grandmother's Revival
The First Chilly Night
Friday Science Film: The States of Matter
Thunderstorm Season
Letter to My Brothers
At the Other Side
REVIEWS
Charles C. Alexander Here the Country Lies: Nationalism and the Arts in Twentieth-Century America
Ronald Wallace Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks
Stuart Friebert Uncertain Health
John Wheatcroft Ordering Demons
Abstract
STEVE GLASSMAN finds David Livingstone neither a saint nor a devil in examining the explorer's dramatic 1848 confrontation with the Boer leaders. Glassman teaches English at the University of Miami (Florida) and is pursuing a degree in the Goddard M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College. He has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary magazines.
CHARLES HARMON CAGLE discusses the role of Gertrude Stein in introducing the young Ernest Hemingway to the works of Paul Cézanne and the interplay of their creative influences on Hemingway's writing. Cagle also contributes a review of John Wheatcroft's newest book of poetry. Associate Professor of English at Pittsburg State University with a specialization in fiction writing, Cagle has published novels, scholarly articles, and shorter fiction, has had stage and television plays produced worldwide, and has a textbook, Creative Writing: Fiction, published recently by the University of Kansas. His article, "Oscar Wilde in Kansas," will soon appear in the Kansas History journal.
WILLIAM C. BAURECHT examines affection between males and stages in schizophrenic experiences revealed in Ken Kesey' s novel about individualism and oppression in America. Holder of a doctorate in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, Baurecht currently serves as Assistant Director of the General Honors Program there. He has produced several works on New Mexico and has articles on romantic male deviance and on Wallace Stegner.
JACK FLAVIN lives in Springfield, Massachusetts. His work in this issue is a modernization of William Dunbar's famous "Lament for the Makaris" ("makers": "poets") from the late fifteenth century.
DAVID EWICK, LIZ MAYER, and THEODORA TODD are all with the creative writing program at Wichita State University.
J. T. KNOLL is a psychologist and director of the Elm Acres Youth Home in Columbus, Kansas.
GILES MITCHELL and L. ROBERT STEVENS argue that Darwin, like the tragic hero Oedipus, accepts chance as the arbiter of fate, while Adam in blaming Eve for the Fall rejects his responsibility and denies his humanity. Mitchell has published a book, The Art Theme in Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, for Indiana University, has written numerous articles on literary subjects, and has read papers on a wide variety of topics, including several on Darwin with his co-author here. Stevens, like Mitchell a Professor of English at North Texas State University, has demonstrated similar virtuosity with a biography, Charles Darwin, in the Twayne English Authors Series, articles on Browning, Ruskin, and Dostoevsky, and a previous essay on "England's Gothic Dream" in The Midwest Quarterly.
ROBERT WEXELBLATT offers a companion-piece to "The Mad Scientist" which appeared in the Spring, 1981, issue. Here Wexelblatt reveals the magic of received economic wisdom. Author of fiction and poetry published in an impressive variety of journals, Wexelblatt includes among his efforts recent articles on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. He teaches humanities at Boston University.
JAMES DAVID FAIRBANKS appraises the influence of the fundamentalist New Right on President Ronald Reagan and finds the nations's civil religion of greater importance in understanding his views and deeds. Associate Professor of Government at the University of Houston Downtown College, Fairbanks has produced papers and articles on civil religion, public morality, politics, and political science pedagogy.
WALTER SHEAR is Professor of English at Pittsburg State University. For two decades he has taught courses and published extensively in modern and contemporary American literature.
KELLY CHERRY is Associate Professor of English and Writer-in- Residence at the University of Wisconsin. She has published reviews, poetry, and fiction in leading magazines and journals as well as six books.
CAROL WALKER MACKAY has graduate degrees in both French and English. She presently teaches French and German literature at Pittsburg State University.
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Recommended Citation
Glassman, Steve; Cagle, Charles Harmon; Baurecht, William C.; Mitchell, Giles; Stevens, L. Robert; Wexelblatt, Robert; Fairbanks, James David; Flavin, Jack; Ewick, David; Mayer, Liz; Todd, Theodora; Knoll, J. T.; Shear, Walter; Cherry, Kelly; MacKay, Carol Walker; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1982)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 3,"
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