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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
- Genesis & Myth
- See also …
Music & Film
- Leonard Cohen’s Zen Vision
- Song as Poem: Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’
- Cohen & Country
- Case for Country Music
- Dylan’s ‘Visions’
- Pop Music & Gurus
- Au Hasard Balthazar
- Incredible String Band
- Woody Guthrie to Neil Young
- Johnny Cash
- Tree of Life & Melancholia
- Van Morrison
- The Turin Horse
- Vaughan Williams
- Dylan & Ginsberg
- Dominic Williams
- Harry Chapin’s Best 20
- Mike Heron after ISB
- Wizard of Oz
- Bright Lights
- Dylan’s Mr TM
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
- The Semiotic Fallacy, Twenty Years On
- GREEN STUDIES READER: Introduction extracts
- Songs of the Earth: Woody Guthrie to Neil Young
- Art & Enchantment
The Beats
- The Beat Vision
- 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’
- Thoughts on Jack Kerouac
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
- Life Lines
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
- Myth and ‘Victimage’
- See also …
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 Reviews
- 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