The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
"Not Really Such a Monster": Highsmith' s Ripley as Thriller Protagonist and Protean Man
Tom Outland: Emerson's American Scholar in The Professor's House
Ennui and Alienation in Eliot's Poetry
The Lure of Stalinism: Bernard Shaw and Company
Class Consciousness in the Works of D. H. Lawrence: A New Reading
The Big Old World of Harold Courlander
POEMS
"Make Me an Angel . . .”
A Bystander
Billy in the Street: His Wife Considers Her Plight
The Piper of Farragut
Courthouse Square
Fourteen and a Half
Local Yokel
George Seferis in Sonora
Summer You Poor Summer
Poetry Is Standing
I Understood
Against the Wall
REVIEW
George Garrett; The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James
INDEX
Volume XXV
Abstract
in this issue. . .
ANTHONY CHANNELL HILFER pursues Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith' s faceless, sinister character, and finds him both other-directed and protean. Author of The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction and The Revolt from the Village, as well as articles on popular culture and criticism, Hilfer is Professor of English at the University of Texas in Austin. For the past year he has served as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Lancaster in England.
RICHARD DILLMAN suggests that Willa Cather fashioned Tom Outland more after the Transcendentalist ideal developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson than as a romantic or primitive character. Dillman is Associate Professor of English at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He has also written articles in English, articles on Emerson and Thoreau and on rhetoric and teaching English.
MICHAEL GILLUM traces T. S. Eliot's personal and poetic sense of boredom and discovers in Ash-Wednesday a renewed sense of life and purpose. Gillum is Associate Professor of Literature and Language and Chairman of the Humanities Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
J. V. BRUMMELS is a recent recipient of a $12500 fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. A story of his appeared last July in The Rolling Stone. He lives on a farm near Winside, Nebraska.
MICHAEL A. CAREY farms near Farragut in western Iowa. A native of New Jersey, he holds the MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa and has published his poems in Poet and Critic, New Jersey Poetry Journal, and Cyphers (Dublin). He has lived in Ireland, near the Gap of Dunloe in County Kerry.
DAVE ETTER's major collection of 222 poems, Alliance, Illinois, was published last fall by Spoon River Poetry Press (Peoria). He lives in Elburn, Illinois, west of Chicago.
SAM HAMILL is just completing his Guggenheim year in Greece. His new book of poems, Fatal Pleasure, was published last winter by Breitenbush Books.
JAAN KAPLINSKI was born in 1941 in Tartu, Estonia. He holds degrees in structural and mathematical linguistics. His poems in this issue are from Color and Dust, Selected Poems of Jaan Kaplinski, translated by Sam Hamill.
MARK VINZ teaches at Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota. His latest collection, Climbing the Stairs, appeared last year from Spoon River Poetry Press.
George Bernard Shaw, according to RICHARD NICKSON, saw Stalin not for what he was but for what he ought to be, while Shaw gave no such advantage to the western governments he found wanting. Poet and professor, Nickson has published articles on modern drama, scripts for documentary films, a collection of epigrammatic poems, and co-edits The Independent Shavian, along with his duties as Professor of English at the William Paterson College of New Jersey.
Issues of class and social revolution, urges PETER SCHECKNER, shaped both the work and the life of D. H. Lawrence, and his letters reveal the author's defense of radical change and his reservations about the working class. Scheckner serves as Assistant Professor of English at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah.
ABBY ARTHUR JOHNSON discusses Harold Courlander' s four decades of effort to preserve and narrate for the rest of us the folk literature of Africans, Afro-Americans, and Hopi Indians. Parttime Lecturer at Georgetown University and Technical Writer and Editor for JRB Associates in McLean, Virginia, Johnson has published many articles and co-authored a book, Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century. Many of her works focus on the role of blacks and black literary magazines in American life.
JUDITH G. SHAW is Associate Professor of History at Pittsburg State University and a specialist in Tudor-Stuart England.
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Hilfer, Anthony Channell; Dillman, Richard; Gillum, Michael; Nickson, Richard; Scheckner, Peter; Johnson, Abby Arthur; Brummels, J. V.; Carey, Michael A.; Etter, David; Hamill, Sam; Kaplinski, Jaan; Vinz, Mark; Shaw, Judith G.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1984)
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