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The unhappy few
The selfish genius
Against Architecture
The Mythographic art
John Fowles and nature
Primo Levi
Imagining monsters
Einstein, history, and other passions
Louis MacNeice in the BBC
Fallen Dragon
Hawthorne, Melville, and the American character
The refining fire
Electra and the empty urn
Metaphors of change in the language of nineteenth-century fiction
Dr. Johnson's critical vocabulary
Pinter, the player's playwright
A vision
Thoreau as Romantic Naturalist
Bolt of Fate
The Mythology of Middle-earth
W. B. Yeats and the idea of a theatre
Rabelais
Sartre's existential biographies
The age of Saturn
Marriage: Fielding's mirror of morality
Edna Ferber's Hollywood
Hesiod's cosmos
Pound's epic ambition
Psyche and symbol in the theater of Federico García Lorca
Sexing the mind
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