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Editorial Board, Boundary 2, 1971-81 MLQ, 1978-present; Poesis -- 1981-85;
American Poetry, 1987-1992; Contemporary Literature, 1992-present;
Advisory Board, PMLA, 1978-1982; Epoche, 1994-present;
Comparative Literature Studies, 1994-present.

General Appointments:

Executive Committee, MLA Division, Late Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Century British Literature, 1978-1983.
Executive Committee, International Association for the
Study of Literature and Philosophy, 1982-1987.
Executive Committee MLA Division, Philosophy and Literature, 1987-91.
President of Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, 1988-89.
Executive Committee MLA Division, Poetry, 1994-98

IV. PUBLICATIONS

A. Books:

Bibliography of Modern and Contemporary Anglo-American Poetry.
Chicago: AHM Publishing Corp., Spring, 1979.

Enlarging the Temple: New Directions in American Poetry of the 1960's.
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, Spring 1979.

Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.

Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry.
News York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity
of Modernism.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Paperback: Penn State Press, 1994.

Canons and Consequences.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990.

Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications.
Oxford: Blackwells, 1994.

Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.
University Park: Penn State University Press, 1998.

The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

B. Essays:

"Gary Snyder's Lyric Poetry: Dialectic as Ecology," The Far Point (no. 4 Spring-Summer 1970), 55-65.

"Poetry in a Prose World: Robert Lowell's Life Studies," Modern Poetry Studies I (1970),
182-198; reprinted in a collection of essays by and about Lowell edited by Jerome
Mazzaro. Columbus, Ohio: Charles Merrill Publishing, pp. 19-31.

"Sartre's Literary Criticism: From Disinterested to Engaged Imagination," in The Quest for Imagination, ed. O. B. Hardison. Cleveland: Western Reserve Press, 1971. 167-189.

"The Unsure Egoist: Robert Creeley and the Theme of Nothingness," Contemporary Literature, 13 (1971), 162-185.

"Organicist and Humanist Models in the Bildungsroman," Journal of General Education, 23 (Fall, 1971), 220-40.

"From Comic to Tragic Naming in Yeats's Mature Poetry," Modern Language Quarterly,
33 (1972), 145-171.

"Northrop Frye and the Problem of Spiritual Authority," PMLA, 87 (1972), 964-975.

"From Symbolist Thought to Immanence: The Logic of Post-Modernist Poetics," Boundary 2, I (Spring 1973), 605-641. Reprinted in Peter Caravetta and Paolo Spedicati, Postmoderni e Letteratura, Milan: Bompani, 1984, pp. 123-60. And reprinted in Paul Bove, ed. Boundary 2: the Early Years.

"Poetry as Resurrection: John Logan's Structures of Metaphysical Solace," Modern Poetry Studies, 3 (1973), 193-224.

"The Significance of Frank O'Hara," The Iowa Review, 4 (Spring 1973), 90-105.

"Olson and the Poetic Tradition," Boundary 2, no. 4-5 (Winter-Spring 1974), 173-188.

"Ovid's Metamorphoses and Contemporary Fiction," Novel, 7 (1973), 31-40.

"Wordsworth's Wavering Balance: The Thematic Rhythm of the Prelude," The Wordsworth Circle, IV (1973), 226-40.

"The Poem as Act: A Way to Reconcile Presentational and Mimetic Theories," Iowa Review, 6 (1975), 103-124.

"Objective Image and Act of Mind in Modern Poetry," PMLA, 91 (1976), 101-114.
[Translated into Arabic: AL-Thakafa AL-Ajnabia (Foreign Culture no. 3, 1994).

"The Book of the World. Robert Duncan's Poetics of Presence," Sun and Moon, no. 1 (Winter 1976), 66-94.

"Wordsworth's 'Preface' as Literary Theory," Criticism, 18 (1976), 122-146.

"Gary Snyder's Turtle Island: The Problem of Reconciling the Roles of Prophet and Seer,"
Boundary 2, 4 (1976), 761-777.

"Wittgenstein on Consciousness and Language: A Challenge to Derridean Theory," MLN, 91 (1976), 1397-1423. [Reprinted in Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey, eds. Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts. London: Routledge, 2001: 230-53.

"Steps of the Mind in T.S. Eliot's Poetry," in Twentieth Century Poetry, Fiction, Theory,
an issue of Bucknell Review, 22 (1976), no. 2, 180-207.

"The Qualities of Action: A Theory of Middles in Literature" Part I, Boundary 2, 5 (1977), 323-350.

"The Qualities of Action," Part 2, Boundary 2, 5 (1977), 899-914.

"A Procedural Definition of Literature," in Paul Hernadi, ed. What is Literature.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978, pp. 62-78.

"The Plight of Victorian Lyricism as Context of Modernism," Criticism, 20 (1978), 281-306.

"Placing Creeley's Recent Work, The Poetics of Conjecture," Boundary 2, 6-7 (1978), 514-42.

"Against Indeterminancy: A Dissent from the New Orthodoxy," New Literary History, 10 (1978), 71-99.

"The Concept of Expressive Implicature: A Modification of Grice," Centrum, 6, no. 2 (Fall 1978), 90-103.

"John Ashbery and the Modern Long Poem: Motives in Metaphors," Genre, 11 (1978), 653-87.

"Presence and Reference in a Literary Text: The Example of Williams." Critical Inquiry, 5 (1979), 489-510.

"The Propriety of Critical Acts," Society for Critical Exchange Bulletin, 1978, with commentary and response, 1979.

"The Objectivist Tradition," Chicago Review, 30 no. 3 (Winter 1979), 5-22.

"Postmodernism: A Question of Definition," Par rapport, 11, 2 (1979), 87-100, 123-133.

"Culture and Scepticism: A Response to Michael Fisher," Critical Inquiry, 6 (1979), 346-354.

"Some Uses of Frye's Literary Theory," The CEA Critic, 42, no. 2 (1980), 10-20.
This essay won the Robert Miller Memorial Prize for best essay in a CEA publication, 1980.

"Rhetoricity in the Sonnet," Tennesse Studies in Language and Literature, 25 (1980), 1-23.

"From Experience to Discourse. American Poetry and Poetics in the 1970's," Contemporary Literature, 21 (1980), 191-224.

"Ecce Homo: Narcissism, Power, Pathos, and the Status of Autobiographical Representations," Boundary 2, 9 and 10 (1981), 389-413.

"Sensibility, Rhetoric and Will: Some Tensions in Contemporary Poetry," Contemporary
Literature, 23 (1982), 451-479.

"Abstraction as Act: Modernist Poetry in Relation to Painting." Dada/Surrealism, nos. 10-11 (1982), 106-34.

"Representativeness in 'Non-Representational' Art," Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, V (1982), 1-23. Reprinted slightly revised in Mary Ann Caws, ed. Perspectives on Perception: Philosophy, Art, and Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 1989: 1-28.

"A Report to the Provinces: Reflections on the Fate of Reading Among Behavioral Scientists," ADE Bulletin. Reprinted in Profession, (1982), 27-31.

"Going on and Going Nowhere: Wittgenstein and the Question of Criteria in Literary Criticism," in William Cain, ed. Philosophical Approaches to Literature. Lewisburg:Bucknell University Press, 1984, pp. 202-226.

"Criticism as the Situating of Performances: Or What Wallace Stevens Has to Tell Us About Othello," in Vincent Kramer, ed. American Critics at Work: Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories. (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing, 1984, 265-95.

"The ADE and Institutional Politics: The Examples of Tenure and Composition," ADE Bulletin, no. 74 (1983), 24-29.

"Reading for an Image of the Reader: A Response to Block, Caraher, and Mykyta," Reader, no. 9 (1983), 38-44.

"Wallace Stevens' Metaphors for Metaphor: Poetry as Theory," American Poetry 1 (1983), 27-48.

"The Idea and Ideal of a Canon," Critical Inquiry, 10 (1983), 37-60.

"Picasso's Collages and the Force of Cubism," Kenyon Review,n.s. 6, (Spring 1984), 8-33.

"Plato and the Performative Sublime," New Literary History,16 (1985), 251-74.

"Reading as Self-Development: The Forging of Cultural Identities," ADE Bulletin, no. 78 (Summer 1984), 13-16.

"Surrealist 'Materialism'," Dada/Surrealism no. 13 (1984), 94-103.

"Why Stevens Must be Abstract," Albert Gelpi, ed., Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985, 86 -118.

"What Modernism Offers the Contemporary Poet," Hank Lazer, ed., What is a Poet? (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987), 31-55.

"Pound's Vorticism as a Renewal of Humanism," Boundary 2,12 and 13 (1984), 439-462.

"Modernist Abstraction and Pound's First Cantos: The Ethos for a New Renaissance." Kenyon Review 7, no.4 (Fall 1985), 79-105.

"The Post-Modernism of David Antin's Tuning." College English 48, no 1 (Jan., 1986), 9 - 26.

"From Expressivist Aesthetics to Expressivist Ethics," in Anthony Cascardi, ed. Literature
and the Question of Philosophy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 132-166.

"Style As the Man: What Wittgenstein Offers for Speculating on Expressive Activity."
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1987), 177-92. Reprinted with some revisions in Richard Shusterman, ed. Analytic Aesthetics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989, 59-84.

"John Ashbery and the Challenge of Postmodernism in the Visual Arts." Critical Inquiry 14 (1988), 805-830.

"Ponderation in Cezanne and Williams." Poetics Today, 10 (1989): 373-400.

"Finnegans Wake as Modernist Historiography." I, 21 (1988), 238-50.
[This is Novel's twentieth anniversary issue.]

"Without Consequences is No Politics: A Response to Jerome McGann." In Robert von Hallberg, ed. Politics and Poetic Value. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, 301-308.

"Contemporary Philosophy and Modernist Writing: Or How to Take Seriously
the Unmaking of Empiricism." The CEA Critic, 50 (1987-88), 2-18.

"The Powers of Genuine Place: Moore's Feminist Modernism." Southern Humanities Review, 22 (Summer, 1988), 205-24.

[Remarks on Robert Duncan]. American Poetry, 6 (Fall, 1988), 39-40.

"Jorie Graham and Ann Lauterbach: Towards a Contemporary Poetics of Eloquence." Cream City Review, 12 (Summer, 1988), 45-72.

"Towards a Postmodern Theory of Justice: Or How Lyotard Helps Us to Read Rawls."
In Reed Way Dasenbrock, ed. Redrawing The Lines: Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction, and Literary Theory. Mineapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989, 61-91.

"Wordsworth and The Options for Contemporary American Poetry." In Gene Ruoff, ed., The Romantics and Us: Essays on Literature and Culture. Newark: Rutgers University Press, 1990: 184-212.

"Wordsworth's Poetics of Eloquence: A Challenge to Contemporary Theory." In Ken Johnston, et al eds., Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, 371-407.

"Wittgenstein's "I": Towards a Psychology and Ethics of Expression." Western Humanities Review 43 (Summer, 1989): 77-95.

"When the Self Became the Subject: A Review Essay on Paul Smith." Southern Humanities Review 23 (Summer, 1989): 255-63.

"An Interview with Charles Altieri." By Sharon Bryan. River City, 9 (Spring 1989): 108-26.

"What is it Like to Read Batman as High Art?" Cream City Review, 14 (Spring, 1990): 29-33. Reprinted in Cream City Review 20th Anniversary Anthology, 20 (1995-6): 218-22.

Essays on "Autonomy" and on "Modernism/Postmodernism" for the new edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993: 112-14; 792-96.

Essay on "Hegel" for Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory.

"Canons and Differences." In Vergil Nemoianu and Robert Royal, eds. The Hospitable Canon: Essays on Literary Play, Scholarly Choice, and Popular Pressures. London: Benjamins, 1990.

"`Preludes' as Prelude: In Defense of Eliot as Symboliste." In Shyamal Bagchee, ed. T.S. Eliot A Voice Descanting: Centennary Essays. London: Macmillan, 1990: 1-27.

"Confession and Simulacra in the Poetry of Irving Feldman." Bucknell Review (1992)

"The Powers and the Limits of Oppositional Postmodernism." American Literary History, 2 (1990): 443-81.

"Life After Difference: The Positions of the Interpreted and the Positionings of the interpreter." The Monist, 73 (1990): 269-95.

"Temporality and the Necessity for Dialectic: The Missing Dimension of Contemporary Theory." New Literary History, 23 (1992): 133-58.

"Can Hemingway be Recanonized?" in Peter Baker, et al, The Scope of Words. New York: Peter Lang, 1991: 309-24.

"The Responsibilities of Professing." Pacific Coast Philology, 25 (1990): 5-19.

"The Grammar of Persons and the Logic of Argument." Translated into Italian, "La grammatica degli individui e la logico dell' argomento." "Gli Stili Della Argomentazione," Quaderni della Fondazione San Carlo (1989, no 3): 63-81.

"Contemporary Poetry as Philosophy: Subjective Agency in John Ashbery and C.K. Williams." Contemporary Literature, 33 (1992): 214-42.

"Stevens's Ideas of Feeling: Towards an Exponential Poetics." Centennial Review, 36 (1992): 139-74.

"Ashbery as Love Poet." Verse, 8, no 1 (1991): 8-15. Reprinted in Susan Schultz, ed., The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry. Tuscaloosa: University
of Alabama Press, 1995: 26-37.

"Can We Be Historical Ever: Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical Self- Consciousness." Modern Language Quarterly, 54 (1993): 41-54. Reprinted in Marshall Brown, ed. The Uses of Literary History. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Essays on "Autonomy" and on "Modernism/Postmodernism" for the new edition of
the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Alex Preminger and
T.V.F. Brogan, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993: 112-14; 792-96.

"Frank Stella and Jacques Derrida: Toward a Postmodern Ethics of Singularity." In Peter Brunette and David Wills, eds., Deconstruction and the Visual Arts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994: 168-87.

"Eliot's Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Poetry." In David Moody, ed., The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994: pp. 189-209.

"Intentionality Without Interiority: Wittgenstein and the Dynamics of Subjective Agency." In Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl, eds., Transformations in Personhood and Culture After Theory. University Park: Penn State Press, 1994, pp. 85-116.

"Style and Subjective Agency." In James McAllister, Ren‚ van de Vall, and Caroline
van Eck eds., Style in Philosophy and the Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995: pp. 201-19.

"Sighting Joseph Marioni," [Translated as "Betractungen uber Joseph Marioni"] in
Jochen Poetter, ed. Joseph Marioni: Private Icons. (Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1995): 26-31; 32-36.

"Ann Lauterbach's 'Still' and Why Stevens Still Matters." The Wallace Stevens Journal, 19 (1995): 219-233.

"Some Uses of Silence in Contemporary American Lyrics." In Kristiaan Versluys, ed., The Insular Dream: Obsession and Resistance. Amsterdam: Vu University Press, 1995: 350-8.

"The Values of Articulation: Aesthetics After the Aesthetic Ideology." In Richard Eldridge, ed., Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996: 66-89.

"What is at Stake in Confessional Criticism." In H. Aram Veeser, ed., Confessions of the Critics. New York: Routledge, 1996: pp. 55-67.

"The Purloined Profession; Or How to Reidealize Reading for the Text." In Wendell Harris, ed. Beyond Poststructuralism: The Experience of Reading and the Speculations of Theory. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1996: 279-300.

"Some Problems about Agency in the Theories of Radical Poetics." Contemporary
Literature, 37 (1996): 207-36.

"What is Living and What is Dead in American Postmodernism: Establishing the
Contemporaneity of Some American Poetry." Critical Inquiry 22 (Fall 1996): 764-89.

"Whose America is Our America: On Walter Michaels' Characterizations of Modernity
in America." Modernism/Modernity (Fall, 1996): 107-14.

"Images of Form vs Images of Content in Contemporary Asian-American Poetry." Journal of American Studies [Korea] 28 (1996): 503-20. [A modified version of this is printed in Qui Parle, 9 (Winter, 1995): 71-91.]

"Silencing Romantic Expressivism: Affirmation Without Assertion in Two Yeats Lyrics." In Gudrun Grabher and Ulrike Jessner, eds., Semantics of Silences in Linguistics and Literature. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1996): 223-38.

"Dickinson's Dialectic." The Emily Dickinson Journal, 5 (No. 2, 1996): 66-71.

"Towards a Hermeneutics Responsive to Rhetorical Theory." In Walter Jost and Michael
J. Hyde, eds., Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1997: 90-107.

"On the Sublime of Self-Disgust: Or How to Save the Sublime from Narcissistic
Sublimation." In James Soderholm, ed. Beauty and the Critic: Aesthetics in an Age of Cultural Studies. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1997: 113-41.

"Response on Stein and Wittgenstein." Modernism/Modernity 5 (1998): 141-8.

"Poetics as Untruth: Revising Modern Claims for Literary Truth." New Literary History 29 (Spring 1998): 305-28.

"The Concept of Force as a Frame For Modernist Art and Literature." Boundary 2, 25 (Spring 1998): 191-232.

"Response to Arthur Danto." In Christina Gillis, ed. Anything Goes: The Work of Art
and the Historical Future. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Doreen P. Townsend Occasional
Papers, 1998: 17-23.

"The Concept of Force as Modernist Response to the Authority of Science." Modernism/Modernity 5 (April 1998): 77-93.

"Contingency and Sociality in American Poetry of the Fifties." In Esther Giger and Agnieska Salska, eds., Freedom and Form: Essays in Contemporary American Poetry. Lodz; Wydawnictwo University Press, 1998: 27-35.

"Lyric Form and Lyric Force: Yeats and the Limits of the Expressivist Tradition." In Pierre Lagayette, ed., Strategies of Difference in Modern Poetry: Case Studies in Poetic Composition. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998: 24-42.

"What Differences Can Contemporary Poetry Make in Our Moral Thinking?" In Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, and David Parker, eds., Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 113-33.

"Lyrical Ethics and Literary Experience." Style 32 (1998): 272-97. Reprinted in Todd Davis and Kenneth Womack eds., Mapping the Ethical Turn. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001: 30-58.

"Spectacular Anti-spectacle: Ecstasy and Nationality in Whitman and his Heirs." John F.
Kennedy Institute Working Paper, no 111 (1998). Also printed in American Literary History, 11 (Spring 1999): 34-62. Also printed in Roland Hagenbuchle and Joseph Rabb, eds., Negotiations of America's National Identity. Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. Volume 2: 184-205.

"Lyn Hejinian and the Possibilities of Post-modernism in Poetry." In Jacqueline Vaught Brogan and Cordelia Chavez Candelaria, eds. Woman Poets of the Americas. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1999: 146-55.

"The Objectivist Tradition," and "The Transformations of Objectivism: An Afterword." In
Rachel DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain, eds. The Objectivist Nexus. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 1999: 25-36; 301-17.

"Practical Sense--Impractical Objects: Why Neo-Pragmatism Cannot Sustain an
Aesthetics." REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature.
Winfried Fluck et al, eds. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1999: 113-36.

"Avant-garde or Arrie`re-garde in Recent American Poetry." Poetics Today, 20 (1999):
629-54.

"Contingency as Compositional Principle in Fifties Poetics." In Terence Diggory and Steven Paul Miller, eds. The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 2001, pp. 359-84.

"Affect and Intention in Robert Creeley's Poetry During the 1960's." Open Letter: A
Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory 11 (2001): 16-38.

"Beauty and Her Rivals." Crossroads: Journal of the Poetry Society of America number 56 (2001): 7-10.

"Taking Lyrics Literally: Teaching Poetry in a Prose Culture." New Literary History 32 (2001): 259-82. Reprinted in Tanya Agathocleous and Ann C. Dean, eds. Teaching
Literature: A Companion.

'Intimacy and Experiment in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Poetry." In Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue, eds., We Who Love to be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002: 54-68.

"An Aspect of Prynne's Poetics: Autonomy as a Lyric Ideal." The Gig, 10 (December
2001):38-51.

"Critical Survivors-"The Expression of Feeling in Imagination" (1994) by Richard Moran." Genre 33 (2000): 319-30.

"Statement." ArcCA [Architecture California], 2 (no.1, 2002): 20-1.

"The New Criticism." The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory.
Edited by Julian Wolfrey. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002: 436-44.

"Adorno on Beauty." Western Humanities Review, 56 (2002): 126-43.

"The Literary and the Ethical: Difference as Definition." In Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell, ed., The Question of Literature: The place of the literary in Contemporary Theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002: 19-47.

"Creeley's Contemporaneity," Bridge, 2, no.1 (fall/winter 2002): 199-204.

"What is Human about the Humanities?" Soundings 74 (2001): 245-64.

"The Pound/Stevens Era." The Wallace Stevens Journal 26.2 (Fall 2002): 228-50.

"Cavell's Imperfect Perfectionism." Kenneth Dauber and Walter Jost, eds. Ordinary
Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell after Wittgenstein. Evanston:
Northwestern University Press, 2003: 199-230.

"The Local, the national, and the Transnational: Poetics as Political Theory." Foreign
Languages and Translation [College of International Studies, University of South
Central China, Tiedao Campus]. 37 (2003): 49-58.

"Intentionality as Sensuality in Harmonium." The Wallace Stevens Journal 27 (2003):
163-72.

"Towards an Expressivist Theory of the Affects." Soundings 86 (Spring/Summer 2003):
71-102.

"Some Problems with Being Contemporary: Aging Critics, Younger Poets, and the New
Century." Paideuma 32 (2003): 387-412.

"From Two Wordsworths to One Contemporary Poetics." Romantic Circles
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/poetics/>. This volume is edited by Lisa Steinman.

"Rhetoric and Poetics: How to Use The Inevitable Return of the Repressed." Walter Jost
and Wendy Olmstead, eds. A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004: 473-493.

C. Reviews

"Mantrap," The Humanist (July, 1971). [Review of The Sensuous Woman.]

"Michael Lane: Introduction to Structuralism," The Humanist, (Fall, 1972).

"Charles Olson, Maximus Poems," Washington Post Book News, approximately
Nov. 6, 1975.

"Harold Bloom, Ringers in the Tower and four other books on contemporary poetry,"
Criticism, 19 (1977), 350-361.

"David Perkins, History of Modern Poetry," Boundary 2, 6 (1978), 597-608.

"Frances Ferguson, Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit," Philosophy
and Literature, 2 (Spring 1978), 131-133.

"Irving Massey, The Gaping Pig," Contemporary Literature, 30 (1978), 86-90.

"Marjorie Perloff, Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters," JEGP 77 (1978), 299-301.

"Donald Wesling, The Chances of Rhyme," JEGP 80 (1981), 431-35.

"Frank Lentricchia, After the New Criticism," Philosophy and Literature 6 (1982), 210- 211.

"Working Papers: Selected Essays and Reviews, by Hayden Carruth," The American Book Review 5, no. 3 (March-April 1983), p. 7.

"John Foster, In the Wake of the Gods: Nietzsche in Modernist Literature," Criticism, 24 (1982): 192-197.

"Reach Without a Grasp," Diacritics 14, no. 4 (1984), 58-66. [On Paul Fry, The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory, Yale University Press, 1983.]

"On John Logan," The Ohio Review, No. 32 (1984):128-132.

"Alan Montefiore, ed. Philosophy in France Today," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1985.

"Modern Art and the Mind's I/Eye," Michigan Quarterly Review 23, no. 4 (Fall 1984): 587-95. [On Ernst Gombrich and Wendy Steiner.]

"Anthony Easthope, Poetry as Discourse," Notes and Queries, 32 no.4, 565-66.

"Gerald Graff, Professing Literature: An Institutional History." ADE Bulletin, no. 89 (Spring, 1988) 67-71.

"Rodolfe Gasche‚ The Tain of the Mirror." Comparative Literature Studies 26 (1989), 374-84.

"Professing the Pastoral," [Review of H. Daniel Peck, ed. The Green American Tradition: Essays and Poems for Sherman Paul]. American Literary History I (1989), 932-43.

"Review of Dante's Inferno, translated and illustrated by Tom Philips. Poets, Painters, and Composers, 5 (1990), 18-21.

"Responsiveness to Lyric and the Critic's Responsibilities" [On Marjorie Perloff, Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric]. Contemporary Literature 32 (1991): 580-7.

"Review of Jay Parini and Brett C Miller, ed., The Columbia History of American Poetry." Journal of American History (Dec 1984): 1258-9.

"Review of Leonard Depeveen, The Modern Quoting Poem." American Literature (Dec. 1994): 865.

"Review of Paul Crowther, vols 1 and 2 of Art and Embodiment." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (no. 1, 1995): 87-9.

"Review of Michael North, The Dialectic of Modernism," Modern Language Quarterly

"Review of Daniel Herwitz, Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde." Modernism / Modernity 3 (1996): 170-71.

"Review of Christine Froula, Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce." Comparative Literature Studies, 35 (1998): 85-9.

"Review of Hal Foster, The Return of the Real." Forthcoming in Journal of Aesthetics and
Art Criticism.

"Review of Michael Morton, The Critical Turn: Studies in Kant, Herder, Wittgenstein,
and Contemporary Theory." International Studies in Philosophy. 31, no 4 (1999): 119-21.

"Review of Anthony Cascardi, Consequences of Enlightenment." Studies in Romanticism,
39 (2000): 476-80.

"Constructing Emotion in Deconstruction (Review of Rei Terada, Feeling in Theory)."
Contemporary Literature, 43 (2002): 606-14.