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Publications Books
Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher.
Editor and contributor, with William R. Nash.
University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Includes my
essays, "Charles Johnson and Philosophical Black
Fiction"(pp.xi-xxxvii, with William R. Nash), "To Utter
the Holy: The Metaphysical Romance of Middle
Passage"(pp.57-81), and "'At the numinous heart of
being': Dreamer and Christian
Theology"(pp.150-170).
Speaking the Unspeakable:
The Aesthetic Dimensions of Toni
Morrison. Editor and
contributor. University Press of
Mississippi, 2000. Includes my essays "Aesthetics
and the African-American Novel"(pp.ix-xxviii) and "From
the Sublime to the Beautiful: The Aesthetic
Progression of Toni Morrison"(pp.49-76).
Essays and
Articles
"'The Whiteness of Blackness': The Bonfire
of the Vanities and African-American Poetics."
Shenandoah 57:1 (Spring 2007): 166-186.
"The Specter of
History: Filming Memory in Beloved." In The Cambridge Companion to
Twentieth-Century American Fiction on
Screen, ed. Barton Palmer. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2007: 202-216.
"The Litany of
Things: Sacrament and History in Invisible
Man." In "Raft of
Hope": Ralph Ellison and the
Literature of Politics, ed. Lucas
Morel. Louisville: University of Kentucky
Press, 2004, pp.171-192.
"Fathers
and Sons: Winesburg, Ohio and the Revision of
Modernism." Studies in
American Fiction 29:2 (Autumn
2001): 209-238.
"Wild Women
and Graceful Girls: Toni Morrison's
Winter's Tale," Nature, Woman,
and the Artifice of Politics. Ed.
Eduardo Velasquez. Rowman and
Littlefield, 2000.
"Midnight's
Children and the Apocalypse of
Form." Critique: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction 38:4 (Summer
1997): 289-99.
"Postmodern
Exhaustion: Thomas Pynchon's Vineland and the Aesthetic of the Beautiful."
Studies in American Fiction 25:1
(Spring 1996).
Interviews
"'To bring all loves home': An Interview with
Jamie O'Neill." New Hibernia Review 11:2
(Summer 2007): 66-78.
Reviews
Arnold Rampersad’s Ralph Ellison: A Biography,
in South Atlantic Review, forthcoming 2007/2008.
George Cinclair Gibson’s Wake Rites: The Ancient
Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake, in South
Atlantic Review, forthcoming 2007.
Andrea O’Reilly’s Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A
Politics of the Heart in South Atlantic Review,
forthcoming 2007.
Edna O’Brien’s The Light of Evening, in The Irish
Literary Supplement, 27:1 (28): Fall 2007.
Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle in
Shenandoah, 56:3 (Winter 2007): 177-182.
Brett Bourbon’s Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Mind and Meaning in Literature and Philosophy in
James Joyce Quarterly, 42/43: 1-4 (Fall 2004/Summer
2006): 376-380.
“A Theatrics of Protest”: Book review of Lucy
McDiarmid’s The Irish Art of Controversy in The
Irish Literary Supplement 25:1 (Fall 2005): 13-14.
Ben Howard’s The Dark Pool, in Shenandoah 55:1
(Spring/Summer 2005): 198-201.
Jim McWilliams’s Passing the Three Gates: Interviews
with Charles Johnson in African-American Review 39:3
(Fall 2005): 481-483.
Charles Johnson’s Dr. King’s Refrigerator and Other
Bedtime Stories in Shenandoah 55:2 (Fall 2005):
157-160.
Toni Morrison’s Love in Shenandoah 54:1
(Spring/Summer 2004): 186-189.
Evelyn Schreiber’s Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the
Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, in
South Atlantic Review 68:1 (Winter 2003): 87-91.
Cyrus R.K. Patell’s Negative Liberties: Morrison,
Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology, in
South Atlantic Review 67:4 (Fall 2002): 87-91.
Web Publications
Searchable database for Irish literary studies at
Washington and Lee University [electronic resource]
(Lexington, VA) : Washington and Lee University, c2003:
http://ireland.wlu.edu/db.htm
The Context and Development of Irish Literature:
History, Poetry, Landscape [electronic resource]
(Lexington, VA): Washington & Lee University, c2006: (A
web-based, multi-media, interactive Introduction to
Irish History.) http://ireland.wlu.edu/lecture/ch1_1.htm
Work
in Development
Modernity and the Homeless: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Religion in the African-American
Novel.
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