Category: Criticism

Miroir Danjere

When Men Look at Women: Sex in an Age of Theory

Rehabilitating Victorian Values

God on the Bestseller List

When Baseball Made Out

In the Hidden Garden: Two Translations of the Song of Songs

Violated by Ideas: Reflections on Literature in an Age of Identity Politics

Elizabeth Bishop: Never a Bridesmaid

Progress, Irony and Human Sacrifice

The Castle of Indolence

Auden Onstage

Auden’s Local Culture

Naipaul’s Written World

Flannery O’Connor Resurrected

The New Simplicity: The Music of Górecki, Tavener and Pärt

Bye-Bye, Bunny

James on Tour

Cosmology and the Writer

The Night of Alcibiades

Milton’s Fame in Heaven

Desegregating the Syllabus

Horse and Sea Horse: Areopagitica and the Sea of Stories

Scholarship as Opera: Foucault’s Woodnotes Wilde

The Gambler: A Study in Ethnopsychology

Scientific Grandiosities

Scholarship, Politics, and the MLA

Digging up the Dead: Consecration, Desecration, and Some Questions about Archeology

Nabokov and Nastiness

Ironic Journeys: Travel Writing in the Age of Tourism

First Person Singular

Zola and the Making of Nana

The Problematic Texts of Richard Wright

How Much Is Enough?

Ecology and Ideology

Soviet Civilization: Its Discontents, Disasters, Residual Fascinations

Myths and Mishegaas: Robert Graves and Laura Riding

The Point of View of a Stranger: An Essay on Antonioni’s Eclipse

The Academic Zoo: Theory—in Practice

The Poetics of the New Formalism

Author! Author! Reconstructing Roland Barthes

Montaigne and the Ladies

Sylvia Plath, Hunger Artist

The Contemporary Workshop Aesthetic

Dreaming and Storytelling

The Guiana Connection

An Argument for Diversity

The Poetry Anthology

Tocqueville in 1989

The Singular Friendship: Yeats and Pound at Stone Cottage

Lives and Works