The Midwest Quarterly articles from March 1995

The Midwest Quarterly archives from March 1995

The post-modern detective: the aesthetic politics of Dashiell Hammett's 'Continental Op.'
March 22, 1995... A fundamental revision of man's attitude toward life is apt to find its first expression in artistic creation and scientific theory. - Jose Ortega y Gasset The post-modern perspective is based largely in French literary and aesthetic theory...

The geographical and spatial correlative in Updike's 'Marry Me.'
March 22, 1995... Critics of Updike's Marry Me (1976) have had much to say about its matter but very little about its manner. Innovative technique is an Updike hallmark; it deserves equal time when it is as important as it is in this novel. Speculations on the...

Tommy Wilhelm as passive-aggressive in 'Seize the Day.' (novel by Saul Bellow)
March 22, 1995... When Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1976, the Royal Swedish Academy singled out Seize the Day for particular mention. The Academy stated that this novel of 1956, Bellow's fourth, exceeded even his other depictions of the...

'On the floor of the mind': sentence shape and rhythm in 'Mrs. Dalloway.' (novel by Virginia Woolf)
March 22, 1995... In "THE NARROW BRIDGE OF ART," Virginia Woolf discusses the possibility of a new kind of prose that could appear in literature's future: "It may be possible that prose is going to take over - has, indeed, already taken over - some of the duties...

A winter's solstice. (poetry)
March 22, 1995... For my 46th birthday 41. It is the time of hunger, the night of the lamp-eyed owl. It is the place of sorrow, the longest dark of all. 42. Much of his life he'd spent gathering bones. Bones of humans mostly, but bones of animals...

Apple-head. (poetry)
March 22, 1995... It's the day of your death. I walk to the tree behind your house, to the apples I watched from my guest bed when I'd stay here weekends. I shine the largest against the hem of my dress. Before neighbors drove your body away, I swiped the knife...

Hymn to St. Agnes. (poetry)
March 22, 1995... She was thirteen when the offer came. He'd watched her with her mother at the Tiber beating linen on smooth stones, charted the progress of her swelling breasts and marked the cresting of her hips. Who could believe her luck? A Roman and...

Was high modernism a humanism?
March 22, 1995... IN THE "NESTOR" section of Ulysses, a world-weary Stephen Dedalus tries to explain why it is that he fears "those big words which make us so unhappy" (26). Stephen, of course, is referring to the smug use that Mr. Deasy makes of "generous" and...

Apartheid's dramatic legacy: Athol Fugard. (playwright)
March 22, 1995... As South Africa struggles to dismantle apartheid, historians are reassessing the national experience under that system of racial separation and political and economic discrimination against blacks encoded in law from 1948 to early 1992. To this...

Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns and Other Reminiscences.
March 22, 1995... The mysteries of Norwegian lutefish and American "glorified rice" are revealed through family recollections and recipes of second and third generation daughters of immigrants. Traditional dishes served at home for special observances reminded...

Gerald J. Boileau and the Progressive-Farmer-Labor Alliance: Politics of theNew Deal.
March 22, 1995... The political career of Gerald J. Boileau, a prominent Wisconsin Progressive who served in the House of Representatives from 1930 to 1938, provides an interesting ease study of the legislative history of the New Deal. Among numerous other...