Areas of Research/Interest
Psychology of literature and rhetoric; American poetry and poetics

Fellowships/Honors
Common Room, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1971; Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, University of California, 1958.

Publications(Selected)

Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture. University Park: Pennsylvania State University 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.

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