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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 1

Contents

ARTICLES

Facing the Paradox of Deterrence

A. S. Khomiakov and the Development of Slavophile Thought

Yury Trifonov and the Maturation of Soviet Literature

Inside Liberation Theology

Chartism, Class, and Social Struggle: Study of Charles Dickens

Franklin Roosevelt: Ambiguous Symbol for Disabled Americans

POEMS

The Little House Made of Food

Water Night

Igloo

Prairie Winds

Dry Spell

The Gallery of Plato Hall

Papa

Life Bearing

On Leaving

The Secret Field

Recurrent Nightmare # 3

Musings at the Stock Tank

REVIEWS

Cathy N. Davidson; Revolution and the Word

Hannah W. Faster; The Coquette

Susanna Rowson; Charlotte Temple

Louise Gluck; The Triumph of Achilles

Linda Gregg; Alma

Amy Clampitt; Archaic Figure

Abstract

in this issue. . .

Deterrence by means of an assured retaliatory strike poses serious moral and practical dilemmas, observes JAMES P. SCANLAN. Not least is finding security in involuntary acts to unleash an absurd, insane, and probably counterproductive counterstrike. A supervisory trial attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C., Scanlan has published several articles related to employment.

A. S. Khomiakov and the Slavophiles, ANTHONY R. DELUCA demonstrates, sought renewal for nineteenth-century Russia on models derived from that nation's past, not those influencing contemporary European civilization. Chairman of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at Emerson College, Boston, De Luca's previous publications include two books and several articles on European history and international relations.

The writings of Russian Yury Trifonov, as RICHARD L. CHAPPLE notes, by dealing with contemporary life in realistic fashion provide a source of insight into Soviet literature at odds with the restrictive guidelines and the "girl-loves-boy, boy-loves-tractor wasteland" that characterized earlier Soviet writing. Author of two books on Russian literature and many articles on the same subject, Chapple is a Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the Florida State University.

Liberation Theology, contends FRANCIS DONAHUE, has come to a critical juncture. Only the future will reveal whether or not the forces for moderation will prevail over those for radical change in the Catholic Church and in Latin America. Currently teaching at California State University, Long Beach, and former United States Cultural Attache in Latin America, Donahue has produced five books and numerous articles published here and abroad, including a previous essay on the playwright Fernando Arrabal in Midwest Quarterly.

Michael Cadnum of Albany, California, has published three poetry chapbooks and was a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in 1984.

Christopher Cokinos, a creative writing fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, has published poetry in Cincinnati Poetry Review, Sou'wester, and The Artful Dodge. Bruce Guernsey is director of the creative writing program at Eastern Illinois University and has published poems in Poetry, New Letters, College English, and other journals. His book, January Thaw, was published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

Pamela Hadsall is a Methodist pastor and a free-lance writer. She writes devotional materials for the United Methodist Publishing House, and her poems have appeared in Green's Magazine and Type. She lives in Springfield, Missouri.

Chris Howell was visiting professor of English and poet-in-residence at Pittsburg State University during the 1986-1987 academic year.

Ronald Edward Kittell, a sign technician and serviceman for the city of Auburn, Washington, has published one book of poetry, Raw Sienna, and his poems have appeared in more than one hundred magazines, including Pangloss Papers, The Wire, and Black River Review.

Sandra J. Lindow is a reading specialist in a treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents. Her poetry has appeared in a number of magazines, including North Country Anvil and Farmers Market. She lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Hilary Lyon makes her living as a secretary for an oil and gas firm in Dallas. She has published poetry in Literary Review and The Midwest Quarterly.

Weeden R. Nichols is director of the Salina, Kansas, Emergency Aid/Food Bank and part-owner of a bicycle shop. His twenty-year military career included service in both the Air Force and the Army. He has written articles for religious and law enforcement journals, and his poetry has appeared or will be appearing in Touchstone, Kansas Quarterly, and Beacon Review.

Though a critic of working-class conditions in England, Charles Dickens, writes PETER SCHECKNER, was no revolutionary and indeed championed the rule of law and order against radical demonstrators in England and the empire. Author of a book on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Scheckner is Assistant Professor of English at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Arguing that Franklin D. Roosevelt intentionally misled the public about his physical condition, JOHN DUFFY asserts FDR also failed to aid others with handicaps by putting his power and popularity to work to improve conditions, save for the well-publicized fundraising for Warm Springs. Duffy works as an Employment Interviewer for the State of Illinois, and has long been interested in the relationship between President Roosevelt’s politics and his disability.

BONNIE NELSON, Assistant Professor of English at Kansas State University, has published in the fields of eighteenth-century drama and technical writing. Her most recent article, “Much Ado About Something: The Law of Lombardy and the ‘Othello Play’ Phenomenon,” explores a subgenre of plays which deals with the status of women in eighteenth-century England and those specific attitudes towards sex and marriage with affected that status.

PAMELA YENSER is originally from Wichita and now lives in Pittsburg, Kansas. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Shenandoah, The Massachusetts Review. Poetry Northwest, Iowa Woman, Ascent and Pivot. She has work forthcoming in Kansas Quarterly and The Iowa Review.

Joining the Editorial Board of The Midwest Quarterly are three individuals the Editor is very pleased to have associated with this publication.

WILLIAM M. SELF, a graduate of the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin, taught mathematics first at San Diego State University and now at Pittsburg State University. With professional interests in Harmonic Analysis and robotics-related areas such as control theory and artificial intelligence, Will also likes woodworking, playing the guitar, and fiddling with a Macintosh personal computer. In the latter connection he admits freely that computers exist to occupy the spare time of the user.

DONALD WAYNE VINEY, a philosopher with degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Oklahoma, has taught at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, at the University of Oklahoma, and came to Pittsburg State University in 1984. Author of several scholarly articles and a book, Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God, he has scholarly interest in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and process philosophy. He also favors green, "The Rockford Files," "St. Elsewhere," Monty Python, a wife, and two daughters, not necessarily in that order.

THOMAS R. WALTHER, a historian trained at Texas A & I, the University of Toledo, and the University of Oklahoma, came to Pittsburg State University in 1968 and this January assumed the post as Chair of the Department of History. Tom's research focuses on the American west, economic history, and the history of Southeast Kansas. He has many papers and articles, along with a book, testifying to these concerns. He is, however, first and always a Texan, and he remembers the Alamo.

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