The Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize

Previous Winner

Carl Freedman, "Antinomies of Nineteen Eighty-Four," Volume 31, Winter, 1984. Pp. 599-620.

The Editors of MFS are proud to announce the winner of the second Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize. PAUL M. HADEEN, whose "A Symbolic Center in a Conceptual Country: A Gassian Rubric for The Sound and the Fury" appeared in the Winter issue (volume 31, number 4, 623-643), was judged author of the best article to appear in 1985. Mr. Hadeen received $250 and the certificate appearing opposite.

The outside panel of judges making the selection was composed of Louis J. Budd (chairman), Duke Professor of English, Duke University, and Managing Editor, American Literature; Daniel R. Schwarz, Professor of English, Cornell University; and Claire Sprague, Professor of English, Brooklyn College, and Editor, Doris Lessing Newsletter.

The Editors of Modern Fiction Studies congratulate Mr. Hadeen, who is presently completing graduate work at Northwestern University. We are also grateful to the selection committee for the many hours they devoted to selecting this year's winner.

The Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize was established in 1984 in memory of Ms. Church, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature here at Purdue University and long-time co-Editor of this journal. She died in 1982. Winners of this annual prize will be announced in summer issues of MFS.