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Publications and Works-In-Progress

  1. "A Poem to the Unknown God: Samson Agonistes and Negative Theology." Milton Quarterly,Vol. 42, No. 1, 2008, 22-43.
     
  2. "The Mysterious Darkness of Unknowing: Paradise Lost and the God Beyond Names."
    In Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books." Essays on the 1667 First Edition. Eds. John Shawcross and Michael Lieb (Duquesne UP, 2007), 183-212.

  3. “From Last Things to First: The Apophatic Vision of Paradise Regained”
    Forthcoming in Milton and the Visionary Mode: Essays on
    Prophecy and Violence    . Eds. Peter E. Medine and David V. Urban. Duquesne UP.
     
  4. "The Negation of “God”: Samson Agonistes and Negative Theology--a  chapter-length paper that served as the basis for the Milton Quarterly article above. It was originally prepared for a long form presentation in Chicago at the Newberry Library Milton Seminar in May 2005, and a shorter form presentation at the International Milton Conference in Grenoble, France in June 2005.
     
  5. The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton’s Rejection of God as King U. Delaware Press. Read a sample of this book here.


     

  6. “'His Tyranny Who Reigns': The Biblical Roots of Divine Kingship and Milton's Rejection of Heav'n's King”
         Milton Studies 43, pp. 111-144, (2004)
     
  7. “Dismemberment and Community: Sacrifice and the Communal Body in the Hebrew Scriptures”
    Religion and Literature     35.1 (Spring 2003), pp. 1-21
     
  8. “'That be far from thee': Divine Evil and Milton's Attempt to 'Justify the ways of God to men'”
    Milton Quarterly, May 2002, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 87-105
     
  9. “Thomas Shadwell”
    The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors. Ed. Alan Hager. Greenwood Press, 2004
     
  10. Review of Victoria Silver, Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's Irony and David Loewenstein, Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries
     Religion and Literature     37.3 (Autumn 2005) 127-36.
     
  11. “The Horror is Us: Western Religious Memory and the Colonialist God in Heart of Darkness”
    Henry Street (9.1), Spring 2000, pp. 20-39

Other Resources

  1. Literary Criticism From the Dead--a series of analyses/summaries of critical positions from Plato to Postmodernism
  2. The Quest for the Fiction of an Absolute--an essay (in need of some reworking before attempting journal publication) on mysticism in two poems by Wallace Stevens.
  3. Turn, Turn, and Turn Again--a brief essay on "honesty" and "whoredom" in Othello.
  4. Alchemy, Witchcraft, and the Magus Figure in The Tempest--notes for a class discussion/lecture.
  5. Reclaiming the Self: Transcending the Fragmentation of the Individual Subject--an only slightly altered version of my MA thesis (from 1996), parts of which I may (or may not) return to in order to develop more fully.