The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
The Significance of Dance in Nietzsche's Thought
"In a Low Voice to Someone He is Sure is Listening:" Robert Bly' s Recent Poems in Prose
The Progress of Cannibalism in Satire
Arrabal: Organic Playwright
Public and Private in Jane Austen's Novels
Bonds of Empathy: The Widening Audience in Lord Jim
POEMS
Winter Arrives on Upper Moreland Avenue
Neoplatonism Comes to an End in the French Quarter
And There Are, Also, Other Awakenings Rabearivelo, Drunk, Talks to Himself in Tananarive
The Existentialist
The Sea off Flanders
Pilgrimage
A Voyage to the Island
Jacob Limps Home over the River
Plan for the House
The Reappearance
The Cunning to Get Near Enough
Fighter Pilot
Sestina
Abstract
in this issue. . .
JOHN E. ATWELL explains Nietzsche's view that the dance expressed joy and represented belief in personal immortality. Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Atwell includes articles on Kant, Sartre, Schopenhauer, and Husserl among his publications.
Poet Robert Bly, according to WILLIAM V. DAVIS, has put new meaning and vigor into the prose poem, a development of historical significance to Bly and to American poetry. Currently Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Baylor University, Davis is a distinguished poet, is author also of criticism, short fiction, and the book, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, and is represented most recently in this journal in the Autumn, 1981, issue.
J. W. CULLUM lives in Atlanta.
CHARLES EDWARD EATON's eighth poetry collection, The Thing King (Cornwall Books), appeared early last year.
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN's new book of poems, To the Wreakers of Havoc, will be published this spring by the University of Georgia Press.
TOMAS O'LEARY lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
WILLIAM PAGE edits the Memphis State Review. His two collections of poems are Clutch Plates (Branden Press, 1976) and The Gatekeeper (St. Luke Press, 1982).
EDWARD WILSON will have new work in Poetry this year. He is a stockbroker in Augusta, Georgia.
Cannibalism, repulsive and fascinating, contend JOHN R.
CLARK and ANNA LYDIA MOTTO, has become not less but more prevalent in modern literature. Both scholars with an interest in satire, Clark is Professor of English and Motto is Professor of Classics at the University of South Florida.
FRANCIS DONAHUE introduces the work of the Spanish-born Neosurrealist playwright, Fernando Arrabal, a dramatist who draws upon his experiences and fantasies for his stage creations. Professor of Spanish at California State University at Long Beach, Donahue has published five books and numerous articles dealing with a wide variety of playwrights.
JOYCE QUIRING ERICKSON explores Jane Austen's use of the drawing room as the meeting place between the public and private spheres of life. Erickson, Professor of English at Seattle Pacific University, numbers many publications in pursuit of research interests in 18th and 19th century British literature, women's studies, and the Bible as literature.
STEVEN BARZA discusses the means by which Joseph Conrad broadens the audience of Lord Jim to include the reader. Barza, Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond, has published articles and stories in many literary journals.
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Atwell, John E.; Davis, William V.; Clark, John R.; Motto, Anna Lydia; Donahue, Francis; Erickson, Joyce Quiring; Barza, Steven; Cullum, J. W.; Eaton, Charles Edward; Heffernan, Michael; O'Leary, Tomas; Page, William; Wilson, Edward; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1984)
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