Literary Theory
“The Notorious Jumping Reader of Calaveras County: Twain, Blanchot, and a Dialectic of Storytelling.” The Midwest Quarterly 49.4 (2008): 374-87. “Drowning Martin Eden’s
China/Tibet Studies
Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Writings Newly Posted: Review: Ballad of the Himalayas, by Ma Yuan. Translated by Herbert J. Batt.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
by Steven J. Venturino Alpha Books/Penguin/DK, 2013 Used in colleges and college-prep courses in the US, AS/A2 prep in the
Derrida Signs a Baseball
Signature Event Jacques Derrida was delivering one of four Carpenter Lectures (probably the second) at the University of Chicago between
A Serial Reading of Middlemarch
This Newberry Seminar is now concluded. It was held in the fall of 2015. George Eliot’s celebrated Victorian masterpiece Middlemarch
Six Revelations Provoked by Theater-Screening The Wizard of Oz
Oh you can say there’s nothing to be gained by seeing The Wizard of Oz on the big screen of