The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Sex as Cosmic Metaphor
Leaves of Grass From the Perspective of Modern Epic Practice
Obscurity, Clarity, and Simplicity in the Cantos of Ezra Pound
Literary Fungoes: Allusions to Baseball in Significant American Fiction
Fainters and Fighters: Images of Women in the Indian Captivity Narratives
Huck Finn and Two Sixteenth Century Lads
POEMS
The Image Exit
The Art of Quotation
The Room in March
A Way of Saying
Sometimes I Feel Like My Father Looked
The Sailors
William Carlos Williams
Evening, and Morning
For My Brother Four Years Dead
The Lemon Houses
Maybe Someday
REVIEWS
Chad Walsh Hang Me Up My Begging Bowl
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer The Queen of Egypt
LOOKING FORWARD
Literary Merit: Rejection Slips
Abstract
in this issue. . .
JUDITH RINDE SHERIDAN suggests that the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, employs sexual love as a means of depicting both good and evil in the world. Author of an article on Wallace Stevens, Sheridan has also exhibited a continuing interest in Jewish literature. She currently teaches in the English Department at Salisbury State College in Maryland.
For ANDREW HUDGINS Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass marks the transition from the traditional to the modern epic. Hudgins has published his own poems and his articles on modern and contemporary poetry in numerous journals. He is presently a Teaching-Writing Fellow in the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
CHARLES EDWARD EATON' s eighth collection of poems will appear in September.
ROBERT FUNGE lives in San Carlos, California.
GREG KUZMA's For My Brother was published last year by Abattoir Editions (University of Nebraska, Omaha).
JUDY RUIZ is a graduate teaching assistant in the English Department at Pittsburg State University.
CAROL HELMSTETTER CANTRELL provides a brief guide to Ezra Pound's intentions and method in his construction of the Cantos. Cantrell has published articles on Franz Kafka, John Hawkes, and recent American poetry. She teaches in the English Department at Colorado State University.
CORDELIA CANDELARIA offers an introduction to the world of baseball fiction with her article on the use of the "national pastime" as a metaphor in serious American literature. She has published literary criticism and poetry in many journals and serves on the Board of the National Council of La Raza. Candelaria teaches American literature at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Women captured by the Indians in the colonial and early national periods of American history, says MELVIN J. THORNE, were shown as either fainters or fighters, though the former image tended to prevail in the nineteenth century. Thorne is presently pursuing a doctorate in American studies at the University of Kansas.
ROBERT J. COARD investigates parallels in two Mark Twain works, The Prince and the Pauper and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Author of three previous Twain articles in The Midwest Quarterly, Coard has published extensively elsewhere on subjects involving American literature, American language, and pedagogy. He teaches in the English Department of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
BRUCE CUTLER teaches English and creative writing at Wichita State University.
KATHLEEN L. NICHOLS is an Assistant Professor of English at Pittsburg State University; she teaches American literature and directs the Women's Studies program.
BRANLEY ALLAN BRANSON finds some humor and some satisfaction in surveying a genre new to these pages: the rejection letter. A fisheries scientist at Eastern Kentucky University and Editor of the Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Sciences, Branson has published "around 600" technical, scientific, popular, and semi-popular articles and poems in an amazing variety of magazines and journals.
Permissions to Use
In accordance with database agreements, the full text of the issue is not available for download. Pittsburg State Digital Commons has only provided the first 6 pages for author and publication information.
Recommended Citation
Sheridan, Judith Rinde; Hudgins, Andrew; Cantrell, Carol Helmstetter; Candelaria, Cordelia; Thorne, Melvin J.; Coard, Robert J.; Eaton, Charles Edward; Funge, Robert; Kuzma, Greg; Ruiz, Judy; Cutler, Bruce; Nichols, Kathleen L.; Branson, Branley Allan; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1982)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 4,"
The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 23:
Iss.
4, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/mwq/vol23/iss4/1