The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 4

Authors

• William O'Neill
• A. Carl Bredahl
• Thomas Lavassi
• Susan L. Roberson
• Michael Ponsford
• Fred Madden
• baloian
• Sandra Berris
• Michael Burns
• Celia Daniels
• Zoe Filipkowski
• Russell T. Fowler
• Diane Glancy
• David Kerner
• Hillary Lyon
• Stephen Meats
• CarolAnn Russell
• Darrel G. H. Schramm
• Walter Shear
• Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES

The Rout of the Suitors, The Making of an Artist: The Meaning of Parallel and Parody in Ulysses

"The Young Thing Within": Divided Narrative and Sherwood Anderson's  Winesburg, Ohio . . .

Riddle of Being: Goldbarth's "The Importance of Artists' Biographies"

T. S. Eliot's Symbolical Woman: From Temptress to Priestess

Thomas Hardy's Control of Sympathy in Tess of the D' Urbervilles

Marlow and the Double Horror of Heart of Darkness

POEMS

Permanent Arrangement

Onion Evenings

The August Casualties

Suicide

Old Trails

You Have Your Life on Backwards

Settling

The Sign Writer

Salvador

The Tree of Self-Knowledge

The Diagnosis

Pick Up the Prisoners

Enola in New Mexico

Let New the Stargazers

When You Are Gone

The Tree

REVIEW

Walter Shear

Mary Jo Salter; Henry Purcell in Japan

Norman Williams; The Unlovely Child

John Updike; Facing Nature

INDEX

Volume XXVII

Abstract

in this issue. . .

That James Joyce was concerned that his audience understood Bloom and Stephen were going about lives matched with Ulysses and Telemachus has become clear, but his purpose in doing so is the subject of WILLIAM O'NEILL. Author of short stories, reviews, and an article on Yeats in this journal, O'Neill teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

A. CARL BREDAHL develops Sherwood Anderson's alternative to the novel form, a "divided narrative," by examining Winesburg, Ohio. With numerous publications on writers as diverse as Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Harold Frederic, John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, and Tom Wolfe, Bredahl has a study of Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa upcoming in a future issue of this journal. Bredahl is Professor of English at the University of Florida.

THOMAS LAVAZZI provides a careful reading of Albert Goldbarth's long poem, "The Importance of Artists' Biographies," in order to explain how and why the poet's work succeeds. Now an Instructor in English at Louisiana State University and editor for three publications, Lavazzi is also a widely published poet.

BALOIAN makes his living as a farmer in the San Joaquin Valley. Over the past twenty years his poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published three books of poems and is currently working on his fourth.

SANDRA BERRIS, a native of Lincoln, Nebraska, currently lives in Barrington, Illinois, where she is director of the Barrington Area Arts Council and editor of Whetstone, northwest Chicago's literary magazine. In 1983 she was the featured poet of the Chicago Fine Arts Council's Dial-A-Poem series.

MICHAEL BURNS has published poetry in a number of journals, including New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, Poetry Now, Kansas Quarterly, and Midwest Quarterly. Timberline Press published his chapbook, When All Else Fails, in 1984. Burns teaches English at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield.

CELIA DANIELS is currently completing a graduate degree in Museum Studies at the University of Kansas and serving an internship at the Menninger Museum in Topeka. Her poems have appeared previously in Kansas Quarterly, Kansas Women Writers, and Inscape. It

ZOE FILIPKOWSKI lives in Pullman, Washington. She has published poetry in The Centennial Review and in New Orleans Review.

RUSSELL T. FOWLER has published literary criticism and poetry in Sewanee Review, Iowa Review, Southern Humanities Review, Twentieth Century Review, and others. He teaches English at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina.

DIANE GLANCY, 1984-1986 Laureate of the Five Civilized Tribes, has published poetry in numerous journals, including Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Little Balkans Review, Snowy Egret, Literary Review, and Kansas Quarterly. Her first collection of poems, Brown Wolf Leaves the Res (Blue Cloud Quarterly 1984), won the 1985 Pegasus Award from the Oklahoma Federation of Writers. She has also published and won prizes with her fiction and drama. Ms. Glancy currently lives in Tulsa.

DAVID KERNER has published short stories in New Directions and Commentary, and literary criticism in American Literature, Chicago Review, and others. He lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

HILLARY LYON makes her living as a secretary for an oil and gas firm in Dallas while she is working on a masters degree at Southern Methodist University. She recently published her first poem in the Literary Review.

STEPHEN MEATS teaches English at Pittsburg State University and is poetry editor of Midwest Quarterly. His poetry has appeared in UT Review, Kansas Quarterly, Little Balkans Review, and other journals. He has a poem forthcoming in Blue Unicorn and a short story in Arete.

CAROLANN RUSSELL, a graduate student and part-time instructor at the University of Nebraska, has had poems appear recently in Elkhorn Review and Image. Her first collection of poems, The Red Envelope, was published by University Presses of Florida in 1985.

DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM has published poems in more than three dozen magazines, including Kansas Quarterly, Midwest Poetry Review, Webster Review, and Sequoia. A volume of poems, Silences, Bones and Angled Rain, was published in 1974. Mr. Schramm has also published short fiction and has three book manuscripts currently under consideration by publishers.

SUSAN L. ROBERSON traces T. S. Eliot's career-long struggle to portray and reconcile different visions of Woman, and in so doing she illuminates the problem American male artists have had in characterizing the "opposite" sex. Doctoral candidate at Texas A & M University, Roberson is writing a dissertation on Ralph Waldo Emerson's sermons. Co-author of other works, she is appearing here as the sole author for the first time.

Manipulating the reader's concern for and opinion of his central character, explains MICHAEL PONSFORD, Thomas Hardy fashions an appreciation for both her tragedy and her fulfillment. Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Ponsford lectured in English at Harlaxton College, the British campus of the University of Evansville, after taking his doctorate at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He has published articles on Thomas Traherne and R. S. Thomas.

FRED MADDEN finds in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness an exploration of corruption, a pervasive decay both individual and in nature. Currently Assistant Professor of English at Ithaca College in New York, Madden spent nine years teaching in England and has a recent article in Modern Fiction Studies.

WALTER SHEAR is Professor of English at Pittsburg State University. He has published articles in the field of American romanticism and modern American Literature. He also has several reviews of poetry to his credit.

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

O'Neill, William; Bredahl, A. Carl; Lavassi, Thomas; Roberson, Susan L.; Ponsford, Michael; Madden, Fred; baloian; Berris, Sandra; Burns, Michael; Daniels, Celia; Filipkowski, Zoe; Fowler, Russell T.; Glancy, Diane; Kerner, David; Lyon, Hillary; Meats, Stephen; Russell, CarolAnn; Schramm, Darrel G. H.; Shear, Walter; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1986) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 4," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 27: Iss. 4, Article 1.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/mwq/vol27/iss4/1