Journal Issue
The Role of the Prophet gives this issue its argumentative center, with George Abbe setting the terms. The fiction—The Shepherd Takes a Wife by James Wyckoff; Through a Looking Glass by Sam Elkin; The Punishment of Prometheus by Karel Čapek—moves among private crisis, social pressure, and public consequence, with each story’s title and setting supplying a distinct point of entry. Essays and reviews carry that movement into Literate China, so the issue reads as a conversation rather than a stack of unrelated contributions The printed contents bring together 3 works of fiction, 2 prose or editorial entries, giving the issue a deliberately mixed pace across genres and forms The result is a compact but varied record of the issue’s particular moment.
Contributors
Publication details
Full contents
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 2]
- The Role of the Prophet — George Abbe [Essay, p. 3]
- The Shepherd Takes a Wife — James Wyckoff [Fiction, p. 10]
- Rainbow at Midnight — Lawrence Lipton [Poetry sequence, p. 16]
- Literate China — Hugh Hardyman [Essay, p. 43]
- Through a Looking Glass — Sam Elkin [Fiction, p. 48]
- Declaration — Janet Stevenson and Philip Stevenson [Drama, p. 55]
- The Punishment of Prometheus — Karel Čapek [Fiction, p. 61]
Rights and citation
Copyright 1953 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1953 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1953; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 2, no. 3, Spring 1953. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.