The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 4

Authors

• Robert Grudin
• Paul J. Schumacher
• Kenneth L. Golden
• Ruth B. Shult
• Harbour Winn
• John G. Peters
• William Winfield
• Duane Locke
• Walter Shear
• Donald W. Viney
• Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES 

The Vanity of Literary Theory 

Transcendence in Kafka’s Castle: An Existential View 

Birkin and Ursula, Anima/Animus and Self: Jungian Reflections on Lawrence’s Women in Love 

Reality and the Dream: A Mirror Image 

Lineage and the South: The Unity of Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses 

Ghosts and Guilt: Mourning Becomes Electra and its Mythic Tradition 

LOVE POEMS 

Verge 

Home 

Under October  

Vigil 

Cities 

Blade 

Victims 

Flame 

Pulse 

Between Two Skies  

Venus 

Love in the ‘Eighties 

A Philosopher Eating A Lobster 

Out In A Pasture 

Fences  

The End Of Something 

Repainted For Quick Sale 

A Return in the 'Eighties 

A Neoteric, The Nemesis 

The Repaired Venus  

REVIEWS 

Mary Kupiec Cayton; Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845 

Ethel M. Kersey; Women Philosophers A Bio-Critial Source Book 

INDEX 

Volume XXXII 

Abstract

Offering a stimulating and much-needed comment on the current fashions in literary criticism, ROBERT GRUDIN also provides an alternative which, he urges, puts the text and the author in context, and literary theorists in their proper place vis-à-vis the work under scrutiny. Grudin is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon.

PAUL J. SCHUMACHER explores Franz Kafka's discourse on transcendence in his unfinished novel, The Castle, and traces his meaning to Kierkegaard's investigation of the same topic. Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, Schumacher has recently completed a book-length manuscript on "Existentialism with Meaning," and has published articles on the impact of Heidegger and Nietzsche on modern literature.

Comments by writers do not always square with the subtle burden of their fiction, and according to KENNETH L. GOLDEN, such is the case of D. H. Lawrence's comments about psychology versus the content of Women in Love. Further, while Lawrence read Freud, his fictional portrayals are closer to the views of Carl Jung. Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Golden has published a number of articles on modern literature from the psychological/mythological perspective.

Coming to terms with reality, particularly the reality of self, is a painful, necessary act. Through an unfinished story and his own nightmare of the 1890s, as RUTH BARLOW SHULT shows, Mark Twain views them not so much as opposites as complementary parts of existence. A teacher of writing on the Lima campus of The Ohio State University, Shult enjoys a life of reading, music, and of course, sharing her insights with others.

HARBOUR WINN demonstrates William Faulkner's use of juxtaposition to tell the history of the South through seven apparently discrete stories, which are in fact a genealogy traced through black and white lines emanating from the same person. Adjunct Professor in Humanities at Oklahoma City University, Winn also directs the OCU Film Institute. He has published articles on many 20th-century authors, including Malamud, Hemingway, Tolstoy, Steinbeck, and Flannery O'Connor.

JOHN G. PETERS discusses Eugene O'Neill’s adaptation of the Greek myth of the Oresteia and shows how his alterations had significant impact on the story and added a modern twist to the story of murder, revenge, and guilt. Peters is a student in the doctoral program of the English Department at Pennsylvania University.

DUANE LOCKE has more than a thousand publications, mostly poems, in more than five hundred magazines and has published thirteen small-press books of poetry. His latest poems appeared in American Poetry Review. A short story recently appeared in Thema, and a critical essay on Louis Simpson was recently reprinted in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness, edited by Hank Lazar. He retired from the University of Tampa in 1989 and now lives in the slums of Tampa with one wife, two dogs, and ten cats. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

WILLIAM WINFIELD is an independent writer and editor living in New York City.

WALTER SHEAR teaches courses in American literature in the PSU English department and is one of our favorite and most dependable reviewers.

DONALD WAYNE VINEY is the PSU professor of philosophy and acting Editor-in-Chief for this issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY.

The poetry editor is interested in receiving poems dealing with the European "discovery" of the Americas for a special issue commemorating the Columbus quincentennial in 1992.

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Grudin, Robert; Schumacher, Paul J.; Golden, Kenneth L.; Shult, Ruth B.; Winn, Harbour; Peters, John G.; Winfield, William; Locke, Duane; Shear, Walter; Viney, Donald W.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1991) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 4," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 32: Iss. 4, Article 1.
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