The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Emerson, Whitman, and Zen Buddhism
Moby-Dick and Nazi Propaganda Techniques
The Narrative Structure of Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Mothers and Daughters in Elizabeth Gaskell' s Wives and Daughters: In a Woman's World
Isms and Godots Versus Egos and Individuals: The Beckettian Stand
A Freudian Reading of Eudora Welty's "Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden”
POEMS
Editor's Note
McPherson, Kansas
Toward Morning
Walking Home Again, November
Visiting the Relatives
Michael's Kisses
Some Nights
Troop 603
The Centaur Comes Down Main Street in March
Wake
The Junkyard Mechanic Finds His Voice
The Dance of Juba
In Lapland, Kansas
Fishing With My Two Boys At a Spring-fed Pond in Kansas
1966
During Lunch at Alonzo “Slick” Smith’s Barbecue Restaurant, A Local Holds Forth on the Real Muskogee, Oklahoma
Someone My Father Knew
Journey
INDEX
Volume XXXI
Abstract
in this issue. . .
YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI reveals the similarities and differences between Zen Buddhism and American Transcendentalism, particularly in the writings of Emerson and Whitman, a view which illuminates much in their philosophy and also helps us understand where the two American authors diverged. Professor of English at Kent State University, Hakutani has published books on Theodore Japanese fiction, Thedore Dreiser, Richard Wright, Yone Noguchi, and many articles on similar topics.
Moby-Dick, though securely rooted in its own time, prefigures twentieth-century totalitarianism’s epitome, Nazi Germany, in the opinion of CHRISTOPHER S. DURER. Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, Durer has written widely on American and comparative literature and modern drama. His book, Herman Melville and Romanticism, a study of Romantic sensibility in Melville’s novels will be published soon.
JARED CARTER lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is the author of a book of poems, Work for the Night Is Coming (Macmillan, 1981). His most recent chapbook is Millenial Harbinger, published in 1986 by Slash and Burn Press, Philadelphia.
ANNE A. COLWELL, originally from Pennsylvania, lives now in Newark, Delaware, where she is working toward a Ph.D. in English from the University of Delaware.
ANDREW DILLON is a professor of English at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, and has poems forthcoming in Kansas Quarterly, Negative Capability, and Southern Poetry Review.
JOHN DUFRESNE is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in Yankee, The Quarterly, and The Missouri Review. A collection of his fiction, The Way That Water Enters Stone, will be out in January from W. W. Norton. He teaches creative writing at Florida International University in Miami.
ELISABETH GRANT-GIBSON has published poems in Descant, Cimarron Review, and Piedmont Literary Review. She teaches English at Northeastern Louisiana University in Monroe.
JEANIE (OLSON) HAGGERTON continues to work on her M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri in Kansas City where she teaches and specializes in the eighteenth and nineteenth century periods of English literature.
MICHAEL L. JOHNSON is chair of the English Department at the University of Kansas in Lawrence where he teaches courses in creative writing. He is the author of Familiar Stranger, Dry Season, The Unicorn Captured, and The Birds from I Know Where (Cottonwood, 1989).
WILLIAM KLOEFKORN has recently published poems in the Georgia Review, South Dakota Review, and Laurel Review. He has published several collections of poetry, with two new books forthcoming–Where the Visible Sun Is (Spoon River), and Drinking the Tin Cup Dry (White Pine).
ANNE LUNDBERG–GRUNKE writes poetry and fiction in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband and three children. Her work has appeared in Great River Review, Lake Street Review, Calliope, and others.
TOM MALONEY teaches freshman composition and takes graduate courses at Pittsburg State University. He has been accepted for the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas. Her poems have appeared in The Midwest Quarterly, Cow Creek Review, and Jabberwocky.
AL ORTOLANI published his first book of poems, The Last Hippie of Camp Fifty (Woodley), in 1988. A Pittsburg, Kansas, native, he teaches at Pittsburg High School and Pittsburg State University.
MARK SCHAUB is a Wisconsin native who works at a bookstore in Wichita, Kansas, where he is a candidate for the MFA in Writing at Wichita State University.
GARY SHORT is an artist-in-residence in Nevada public schools. His poems have appeared in The Chariton Review, Permafrost, and Poetry East.
DANIEL JAMES SUNDAHL is Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan. His poems and articles have appeared in such periodicals as New Letters, Writers Forum, and The Pennsylvania Review.
DIANE WAHTO received an American Academy of Poets Award while a graduate student at Wichita State University, 1985. She is Instructor of Butler County Community College, El Dorado, Kansas. She has published in City Life, AID Review, and Women’s Equality Coalition Journal. She received the MA in English from Pittsburg State University. Interweaving flashforwards and fantasies to explore the far-from-benign influence of Miss
Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, as ANNE L. BOWER shows, deftly juxtaposes the teacher’s glorious hopes with their unexpected outcomes in the lives of her students. Now a doctoral student at West Virginia University after many years in public administration (housing, flood control, and the like), she also teaches freshman composition at West Virginia and the survey of literature at a nearby Federal prison. She has a previous publication on King Lear’s Fool.
Rejecting the traditional view of the “good mother” whose natural instincts produce successful daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell, as LAURIE BUCHANAN demonstrates, explored the ambivalence of the relationship of mother and daughter and even challenged the notion that biological mothers provide the best nurture for girls growing into womanhood. Buchanan is Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University, and she has published articles on Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian woman, and American short-story writers.
Samuel Beckett, as ALFRED CISMARU suggests, clearly rejects both the collective ideologies and forces which submerge the individual and those who would offer themselves as saviours of humankind. Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, Cismaru has authored three books and numerous articles on French writers, particularly those of the twentieth century.
AYMAN HUSSEIN’s new reading of Eudora Welty’s short story, “Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden,” applies Freud’s psychoanalytic insights to explain the relationship and meaning of the characters in this bizarre tale. Hussein is Instructor of English at Rochester Community College in Minnesota. This is his first published article.
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Hakutani, Yoshinobu; Durer, Christopher S.; Bower, Anne L.; Buchanan, Laurie; Cismaru, Alfred; Hussein, Ayman; Dillon, Andrew; Short, Gary; Schaub, Mark; Grant-Gibson, Elisabeth; Wahto, Diane; Maloney, Tom; Colwell, Anne A.; McGhee, Cindy; Ortolani, Al; Sundahl, Daniel J.; (Olson) Haggerton, Jeanie; Kloefkorn, William; Lundberg-Grunke, Ann; Johnston, Michael L.; Dufresne, John; and Carter, Jared
(1990)
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