The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
The Post-Modern Detective: The Aesthetic Politics of Dashiell Hammett's
"Continental Op"
The Geographical and Spatial Correlative in Updike's Marry Me
Tommy Wilhelm as Passive-Aggressive in Seize the Day
"On the floor of the mind": Sentence Shape and Rhythm in Mrs. Dalloway
Was High Modernism a Humanism?
Apartheid's Dramatic Legacy: Athol Fugard
POEMS
Beatitudes
Late Fall Birds
Rescue
A Winter's Solstice
Eschatological Serenade
The Ox
Father Waking
Pietà
Alchemy
Apple-Head
Forecast
How the River Named Them
Hymn to St. Agnes
Where Does One Body End, Another Begin
February Thaw
REVIEWS
Carrie Young, with Felicia Young; Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns
and other Reminiscences
James J. Lorence; Gerald J. Boileau and the Progressive-Fanner-
Labor Alliance: Politics of the New Deal
Abstract
EDWARD M. WHEAT examines the meaning of the post-modem era through the character and world of the "hard-boiled dick," particularly Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op. Author of articles in a variety of scholarly journals, Wheat is Professor of Political Science and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Southern Mississippi.
In crafting Marry Me, argues MALCOLM O. MAGAW, John Updike used geography, topography, and spatial relations to form a symbolic background against which his protagonist Jerry Conant pursues his truths. A specialist on American literature with previous articles on such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Warren, Bellow, Walker Percy, Hemingway, Cheever, and Malamud, including three in this journal, Magaw is Professor of English at the University of New Orleans.
Arguing that Tommy Wilhelm has not truly cast off his past and taken charge of his future but that, in fact, implies he has suicide in mind, DARRYL HATTENHAUER analyzes Saul Bellow's Wilhelm as a classic passive-aggressive personality. Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University West, Hattenhauer has authored essays on Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Crane, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, West, Steinbeck, Welty, and Baldwin, among others.
True to her wish for a prose literature which would assume "some of the duties which were once discharged to poetry," Virginia Woolf, as ELIZABETH DODD shows, employed poetic means extensively in her novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Dodd is an Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University where she teaches creative writing and literature.
EVE ADAMSON, Tucson, Arizona, received her MFA from the University of Florida. She won an AWP Intro Award in 1991, and her poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Antioch Review, and The Formalist.
TIMOTHY BELLOWS received his graduate degree from the University of Iowa. He teaches writing at Sierra College and lives in Gold River, California, with his wife Marian, some old guitars, and Riley, an unpredictable cat. He published a poem in the Spring 1991 issue of The Midwest Quarterly.
MICHAEL CADNUM's most recent book of poetry is The Cities We Will Never See (Singular Speech Press). He has published two recent novels, The Horses of the Night (Carroll & Graf) and Breaking the Fall (Viking), and his story poem for children, The Lost and Found House, will be published by Viking this spring. He lives in Albany, California. His poems appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly in Fall 1987 and Spring 1992.
GERALD N. CALLAHAN is Associate Professor of Immunology at Colorado State University. His poetry has appeared in Puerto Del Sol, Black Buzzard Review, and Orphic Lute. He and his wife also write a food column for the Fort Collins, Colorado, daily newspaper.
GEORGE EKLUND teaches English and writing at Morehead State University in Kentucky. In 1992 he was named an Al Smith Fellow in Poetry by the Kentucky Arts Council. His poems have appeared in Negative Capability, Poetry Northwest, New York Quarterly, and numerous other journals. White Fields Press published a chapbook of his poems in 1994.
SEAN ENRIGHT, Kensington, Maryland, has published poems in The Threepenny Review, The Sewanee Review, The American Scholar, and The Journal (Ohio State). He teaches writing at Montgomery Community College and Trinity College in Washington, D.C.
TED GENOWAYS lives and writes in Lincoln, Nebraska.
NICKIE J. GUNSTROM, Reno, Nevada, has published poems in various magazines, most recently in the Winter 1995 issue of The Midwest Quarterly.
SCOTT HEIM, New York, New York, has published poetry and fiction in Brooklyn Review, The Prose Poem, Santa Monica Review, the anthology Discontents, and other journals. His first book of poems, Saved From Drowning (Chiron Press), appeared in 1993.
LINDA KEEGAN, a New Hampshire native, lives in McMurray, Pennsylvania. She has had residencies at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and her poems and short fiction have appeared in The Pittsburgh Quarterly, New Virginia Review, Zone 3, The Cape Rock, and other journals. She has also published a chapbook of poems, Greedy for Sunlight.
CATHLEEN A. LONG, Marina del Rey, California, is Associate Professor
of English and director of the Writers' Conference at Santa Monica
College. She is former editor of The Sculpture Gardens Review. Her
poems have appeared in various journals and have been anthologized
in Truth and Lies That Press for Life: 60 Los Angeles Poets and The
New Poets of Los Angeles.
JENNIFER MAIER, Seattle, Washington, teaches writing at Seattle Pacific University and has published poems in Negative Capability. Her poems recently received awards from the Academy of American Poets.
BILJANA D. OBRADOVIĆ, native of Yugoslavia and currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poems and translations have appeared in Poetry East, Rocky Mountain Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals.
SUSAN REA, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, teaches at Philadelphia Community College. In 1993 she received a literary fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Decrying the barren closet of the princes of post-modem literature, SANFORD PINSKER urges that what was right about modernism, its humanity, has been entirely forgotten in the drive for a literature appealing to the New Critics. Iconoclast Pinsker is Shadek Professor of Humanities at Franklin and Marshall College. Widely published on American literature and culture, including previous essays in these pages, Pinsker's latest book is The Catcher in the Rye: Innocence Under Pressure, from Twayne.
Now that South Africa struggles to shun apartheid as much as it shunned people of color, FRANCIS DONAHUE invites historians in the future to use the plays of Athol Fugard as sources on the human victims of this vicious system. A critic specializing in the theater of the United States and the world, Donahue has published books on Washington Irving, the comedies of Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Tennessee Williams, and Alfonso Sastre, among other works, and numerous articles on similar topics.
KATIE H. ARMITAGE, a resident of Lawrence, Kansas, is a recognized expert on midwestern cooking and the history thereof. She has served as a manuscript reader for the University Press of Kansas. She has also participated in the History Alive! program of the Kansas Humanities Council in the role of abolitionist Julia Louisa Lovejoy.
KELLY A. WOESTMAN is Assistant Professor of History at Pittsburg State. Her paper, "Harry S. Truman and the Former Presidents' Act," was awarded second place in the competition for best paper in history at the 1994 meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association.
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Recommended Citation
Wheat, Edward M.; Magaw, Malcolm O.; Hattenhauer, Darryl; Dodd, Elizabeth; Pinsker, Sanford; Donahue, Francis; Adamson, Eve; Bellows, Timothy; Cadnum, Michael; Callahan, Gerald N.; Eklund, George; Enright, Sean; Genoways, Theodore; Gunstrom, Nickie J.; Heim, Scott; Keegan, Linda; Long, Cathleen A.; Maier, Jennifer; Obradović, Biljana D.; Rea, Susan; Armitage, Katie H.; Woestman, Kelly A.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1995)
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