The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Christianity and/or Marxism: A Political-Religious Dialog
Crossing the Sacred Boundary Between the Disciplines: Medieval History and Symbolic Anthropology
Towards a New Eclecticism in Architecture
Creativity and the Split-Brain: An Artist's View
The Social Overintegration of Family and Bureaucracy
A Fen of Stagnant Waters: Hidden Motivations in American Society
POEMS
A Question of Need
Canton
The Man Who Owns the Restaurant
On My Twenty-Eighth Birthday
Fathers
Restoration
Tardiness Lecture
The Iceball
I Tell My Sons
Aloha
Elegy For Aunt Nettie
Ned West, Jr., Hopeless Case
REVIEWS
Charles Wright; The Southern Cross
Bruce Cutler; The doctrine of selective depravity
Steven Hind; familiar ground
Greg Field, Denise Low, Stanley E. Banks; Mid-America Trio
Abstract
in this issue. . .
ARTHUR L. KALLEBERG assesses the recent, tentative attempts to reconcile Marxism with Christianity and concludes that proponents of both must make concessions to effect a more perfect union. Middlebush Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Kalleberg has published numerous scholarly articles in his discipline and is now at work on a book dealing with social justice.
Through a discussion of certain aspects of medieval history, JOHN M. THEILMANN examines the value for historians of symbolic anthropology and finds much to recommend a mutual sharing of the two approaches. Author of many papers and articles on medieval history and now at work on studies employing the insights outlined in the essay presented here, Theilman holds the post of Lecturer in History and Political Science at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
ASHBY BLAND CROWDER invites contemporary architects to cast aside the arid, inhumane style of Modern Movement architecture in favor of an eclecticism which will restore the historical connection of art~ architecture, and humanity. Author of numerous works on Robert Browning and of poetry and scholarly articles on other topics, Crowder has just been named to the M. E. and Ima Graves Peace Professorship in English, American Literature, and the Humanities at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.
J. V. BRUMMELS teaches at Wayne State College, Wayne; Nebraska. His first full-length collection of poems, 614 Pearl, has just been released by Abbatoir Editions.
MICHAEL BURNS teaches at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri.
JEANNINE DOBBS has new work in Akros and Amicus Journal. She lives in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
WILLIAM HATHAWAY teaches at Louisiana State in Baton Rouge. Two of his books of poems were published by Ithaca House and his latest collection, The Gymnast of Inertia, is from the LSU Press.
HAROLD WITT's new collection of poems, The Snow Prince, was published this summer by Blue Unicorn. He lives in Orinda, California.
In the visual arts, suggests CHARLES STROH, the split-brain dichotomy recently put forward to isolate creativity (right hemisphere) from analytical, discursive thought (left hemisphere) simply cannot explain the complex process of artistic expression. Now Chairman of the Art Department at Kansas State University, Stroh has combined stints as a visiting artist and a lecturer on art with exhibitions of his lithographs and drawings in a large number of juried shows and galleries.
ROBERT W. HOFFERT, investigating "linkage" of the family and governmental bureaucracy, discovers not only significant changes in the purpose and definition of the family, but also serious threats to the family posed by bureaucratic usurpation. Associate Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University, Hoffert has published articles on David Hume and Alfred North Whitehead and on the use of Scripture in the development and expression of the political ideas of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes.
Decrying the thoughtless pursuit of security, stability, and sameness, JOHN L. DUSSEAU urges instead attention to individual excellence, challenge, and the passionate search for clear understanding. For twenty-five years editor-in-chief at W. B. Saunders Company in Philadelphia, a publisher of scientific works with particular emphasis on medical science, Dusseau has, since his retirement in 1977, devoted his creative energies to essays reflecting his views on writing and publishing. His splendid "Monotheism in Ancient Egypt" appeared in the Autumn, 1981, issue of The Midwest Quarterly.
Devon Jersild is a graduate of Dartmouth College. Her poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry and Other Poetry. She lives in Middlebury, Vermont.
Eugene H. DeGruson is special collections librarian at Pittsburg State University and one of the founding editors of the Little Balkans Review.
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Recommended Citation
Kalleberg, Arthur L.; Theilmann, John M.; Crowder, Ashby Bland; Stroh, Charles; Hoffert, Robert W.; Dusseau, John L.; Brummels, J. V.; Burns, Michael; Dobbs, Jeannine; Hathaway, William; Witt, Harold; Jersild, Devon; DeGruson, Eugene H.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1982)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 1,"
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