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Professor
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English
Ph.D. 1964 (comparative literature), Columbia; M.A. 1959 (Latin), California (Berkeley); B.A. 1958 (English), St. Anselm's College.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Psychology of literature and rhetoric; American poetry and poetics
Select Publications:
Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture. Penn State Press, 2007. Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 1996. Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1991. The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1991.
Fellowships/Honors: Common Room, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1971; Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, University of California, 1958.
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