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Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
Literary Masterpieces
Contemporary American Literature
Foundations of Literary Study
Research Initiatives
Literature
Rhetoric
Popular Culture
Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Studies
Mythology
International Short Fiction
Reading Visual Texts
The Influence of Aeschylus’s Oresteia through Ted Hughes’ translation
Education
Columbia University AB (English, 1965)
Wagner College MA (English, 1966)
NYU Ph.D. (English, 1972)
Publications
At the Top of the Tower: Yeats’s Poetry Explored Through a Vision, 1979
Myth in the Poetry of Ted Hughes, 1981
Patterns Across the Disciplines, 1988
Strategies of Argument, Second Ed., 1996
Essential Strategies of Argument, 1996
One World, Many Cultures, Sixth Ed., 2007
The Many Worlds of Literature, 1994, and Pearson Custom Publishing, 2000
First Person Singular, 1997
The New Millennium Reader, Fourth Ed., 2006
Reflections on Language, 1999
Every Day, Everywhere: Global Perspectives on Popular Culture, 2002
Past to Present: Ideas that Changed Our World, 2003
Discovering the Many Worlds of Literature, 2004
Chapters in Books:
“An Encounter with the Supernatural in W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Spirit Medium,’” Yeats and the Occult, Ed. George Mills Harper, 1975
“From Gaudette: A Retrospective,” Three Contemporary Poets, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, and R. S. Thomas: A Casebook, Ed. A. E. Dyson, 1990