The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 1

Authors

• Otis C. Mitchell
• James Tice Moore
• David Lloyd Jones
• Haig Bosmajian
• Judith A. Spector
• David W. Pitre
• Ralph Burns
• Paul Hamill
• Michael Heffernan
• Ben Howard
• Stephen Meats
• Eric Pankey
• Stephen J. Teller
• Richard D. Fulton
• Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES

Enter the Desperado: Paramilitary Life in Postwar Europe

Depression Images: Subsistence Homesteads, "Production-For-Use," and King Vidor's Our Daily Bread

Measuring and Mobilizing the Media, 1939-1945

The Metaphoric Marketplace of Ideas and the Pig in the Parlor

On defining a Sexual Aesthetic: A Portrait of the Artist as Sexual Antagonist

Loss of Temper, Loss of Art: Narrative Inconsistency in Conrad's The Secret Agent

POEMS

Shock Treatment

March 14-20, 1982, Year of the Eagle

The House for Sale across the Street

The Big Money

The Shetland Islands

The Gift

December Twentieth

Remembering My Father

Member of the House

Amid a Place of Stone

Northern Interior

False Spring

Waiting in the Gritty Dark

A Child Falls Asleep

REVIEWS

Eric Pankey; Cypresses

Philip C. Kanin; Shakespeare in the South: Essays on Performance

Two Eminent Victorians: William Benzie

Dr. F. J. Furnivall: A Victorian Scholar Adventurer

Joel Wiener; Radicalism and Freethought in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life of Richard Carlile

Abstract

in this issue. . .

OTIS C. MITCHELL traces the rise of the desperado in Hungary and Italy in the bitter denouement of World War I. With extensive publications in the history of Nazism and totalarianism, Mitchell is author of Hitler Over Germany and editor of Nazism and the Common Man. He is Professor of History and Head of the Department at the University of Cincinnati.

JAMES TICE MOORE focuses on King Vidor's assertion of rural values and collective agriculture in his 1930s film, Our Daily Bread. Chairman and Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Moore has published extensively on Virginia history since the Civil War.

DAVID LLOYD JONES traces the effort during World War II to monitor and influence press coverage of government activities. Professor of History and Political Science at Alfred University, Jones has published numerous articles on the history of Wellsville, New York.

HAIG BOSMAJIAN explores the use of two metaphors, the "marketplace of ideas" and the "pig in the parlor," in Supreme Court decisions involving First Amendment issues. Author of Censorship, Libraries and the Law and Justice Douglas and Freedom of Speech, as well as other books and articles on law, language, and rhetoric, including two previous articles in the Midwest Quarterly, Bosmajian is Professor of Speech Communications at the University of Washington.

RALPH BURNS teaches at Murray State University in Kentucky. He recently completed his work as writer-in-residence at Madison State Hospital, Madison, Indiana, under grants from the Indiana Humanities Committee. The Cleveland State University Poetry Center published his first book of poems, Us, last year. His new collection, Any Given Day, including his poems in this issue of The Midwest Quarterly, will appear next spring from the University of Alabama Press.

PAUL HAMILL is Assistant Provost for Faculty Services at the College of Charleston (S.C.) where he also directs the visiting writers series. His peoms have appeared in Kudzu, New Collages, and Poetry.

MICHAEL HEFFERNAN has new work, both poetry and prose, in The American Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, New Letters, and Quarterly West. He has contributed a poem to Miller Williams' Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Poems, due this year from LSU Press.

BEN HOWARD teaches at Alfred University, Alfred, New York. Abbatoir Editions published his Father of Waters in 1979.

STEPHEN MEATS is Chairman of the English Department at Pittsburg State. His poems have appeared recently in Little Balkans Review and Kansas Quarterly. A poem of his received one of the Seaton A wards from Kansas Quarterly earlier this year.

JUDITH A. SPECTOR examines the sexual aesthetic of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and finds them alike in their jaundiced view of the opposite sex. Now at work on an anthology of "gender studies," Spector has published articles on science fiction and feminist criticism, including a recent essay on A Canticle for Leibowitz in this journal. She is Assistant Professor of English at the Columbus extension of Indiana University/ Purdue University Indianapolis.

DAVID W. PITRE argues that Joseph Conrad went beyond irony to overt criticism of the revolutionary anarchists in The Secret Agent and thus compromised his art. Pitre teaches English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He has published essays and reviews in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and modern-British literature and is currently revising for publication a collection of Francis Jeffrey's pre-Edinburgh Review essays.

ERIC PANKEY is a Teaching Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. He will publish poems in early issues of The Kenyon Review and The Missouri Review.

STEPHEN J. TELLER is Professor of English at Pittsburg State University. He teaches courses in Shakespeare, drama, film, mythology, science-fiction, world literature and composition. Dr. Teller is a member of the governing board of the International Wizard of Oz Club, a trustee of Friends of Kansas Libraries, and president of Friends of the Pittsburg Public Library.

RICHARD D. FULTON is Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. He is directing the Union List of Victorian Serials project and has published bibliographic histories of three Victorian periodicals in the English Literary Periodicals Series, Alvin Sullivan, editor.

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Recommended Citation

Mitchell, Otis C.; Moore, James Tice; Jones, David Lloyd; Bosmajian, Haig; Spector, Judith A.; Pitre, David W.; Burns, Ralph; Hamill, Paul; Heffernan, Michael; Howard, Ben; Meats, Stephen; Pankey, Eric; Teller, Stephen J.; Fulton, Richard D.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1984) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 1," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 26: Iss. 1, Article 1.
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