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Green Studies

• Green Letters: Editorial (No.1)
• Green Letters: Bate & Leavis
• Green Letters: Genesis and the Nature of Myth
• Green Letters: A green reading of Ted Hughes
• Green Letters: Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century
• Green Letters:The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Environment
• Two important green books
• The Green World: Nature in English Poetry
• Edward Thomas and Green Studies
• Green Theory
• Environment: An Essay

Kenneth Burke

• Note on Kenneth Burke
• Words and the Word: Kenneth Burke’s Logology and T. S. Eliot’s Mythology
• Review of The Rites of Identity
• Kenneth Burke — Pioneer of Ecocriticism
• Sayings of Kenneth Burke

The Beats

• The Beat Vision
• My Hero, Jack Kerouac
• A Route to Revelation: Re-reading The Dharma Bums
• A Quest for Place: Gary Snyder’s Search for a Living Myth
• Waiting for the End: Ginsberg, Dylan and the Poetry of Apocalypse
• Gary Snyder and‘Eco-Zen’

Myth, religion and literature

• Reading for the Myth
• The Hero’s Journey
• Marina Warner on Myth
• Tyndale, Interpretation and Revelation
• Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams and Modern Hermeneutics
• Hughes and Myth
• Review: Myth: A Very Short Introduction
• Review: Northrop Frye on Myth
• Review: Jung as a Writer
• Review: Mythography
• Review: Theorizing Myth
• Myth, Ideology and Identity
• See also …

Rereadings

• King Lear
• Murder in the Cathedral
• Death of a Salesman
• Waiting for Godot
• Story and Vision in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
• The Comic Vision of T. F. Powys
• Edgell Rickword: Modernist or Marxist?
• Reading and Writing: An Essay

Selected reviews from PNR and CQ

• Worlds
• Authorial Life
• The Scandal of Form
• The Voice of Ariel
• The Moronic Inferno
• The Story So Far
• Three books on American poetry

Times Higher Education contributions

• Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
• The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
• The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World
• Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order
• The Ecological Thought
• This Luminous Coast
• Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
• Eco-Republic: Ancient Thinking for a Green Age
• Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination
• Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide between People and the Environment
• A Philosophy of Walking
• Happier People Healthier Planet: How putting wellbeing first would help sustain life on Earth
• Landmarks
• Back to the Garden
• The Land of the Green Man
• ‘What are you reading?’ column

 Film and music reviews

• Winstanley, dir. Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo
• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, dir. Yves Simoneau
• ‘O Thou Transcendent’: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams, dir. Tony Palmer
• Christmas In The Heart by Bob Dylan
• Creation, dir. Jon Amiel
• American VI: Ain’t No Grave by Johnny Cash
• Music on YouTube: Dominic Williams
• Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus
• The Infidel, dir. Josh Appignanesi
• Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
• Why We Can’t Forget ‘White Christmas’
• Avatar, dir. James Cameron
• Townes Van Zandt: Texas Troubadour
• Songs Lost and Stolen by Bella Hardy
• True Grit, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
• Of Gods and Men, dir. Xavier Beauvois and Winter’s Bone, dir. Debra Granik
• George Harrison: Living in the Material World, dir. Martin Scorsese
• Old Ideas by Leonard Cohen
• The Tree of Life, dir. Terence Malick and Melancholia, dir. Lars von Trier
• Tempest by Bob Dylan
• The Incredible String Band: Original Album Series
• Au Hasard Balthazar, dir. Robert Bresson
• Biophilia by Bjork
• The Turin Horse, dir. Bela Tarr
• The Singer, the Song … and the Guru
• Inside Llewyn Davis, dir. The Coen Brothers