Essays

 

Essays on Drama:

        "African-American Drama from the Midwest."  MidAmerica XXXII (2005): 95-119.
        "Arthur Miller's Sojourn in the Heartland."  American Drama 16:2 (Summer 2007): 28-45.
        "Back to the (Plutonian) Midwest: Sam Shepard's The God of Hell." New England Theatre Journal 18 (2007): 95-108.
        "Center Stage: Midwestern Plays and Playwrights."  Midwest Miscellany XXX (Spring 2002): 7-19.
        ----------.  Rpt.  Agora, www.eiu.edu/~agora, May 2004.
        "Collapsing Male Myths: Rabe's Tragicomic Hurlyburly."  American Drama 3:1 (Fall 1993): 1-16.
        ----------.  Rpt. New Readings in American Drama: Something's Happening Here.  Ed. Norma Jenckes.  New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
        "Dramatizing the Midwest."  Forthcoming in MidAmerica.
        "The Incredible Shrinking Theatre."  The Dramatists Guild Quarterly 33:4 (Winter 1997): 37-39.
        ----------.  Rpt. Curtain Call IV:2 (Oct.-Nov. 1997): 4.
        "Insurrection et désir dans La Folle de Chaillot." La Folle de Chaillot 1945-1995: Lectures et métamorphoses. Les Cahiers Jean Giraudoux 25 (1997): 119-130.
        "Man among Men: David Mamet's Homosocial Order."  American Drama 1:1 (Fall 1991): 46-60.
        ----------.  Rpt. Fictions of Masculinity: Literary Constructions of Manhood .  Ed. Peter F. Murphy.  New York: New York UP, 1994.
        ----------.  Rpt. David Mamet.  Ed. Harold Bloom.  New York: Chelsea House, 2003.
        "[Midwestern] Drama."  The America Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Eds. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Clayton.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2006.
        "Midwestern Dramas."  In the Middle of the Midwest: An Anthology of Creative Non-Fiction from the Heartland .  Ed. Becky Bradway.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003.
        "The Midwestern Plays of Tennessee Williams."  Tennessee Williams Annual Review No. 8 (2006): 33-50.
        "The Playwright's Vision in 'The Process.'"  The Dramatists Guild Quarterly 29:4 (Winter 1993): 13-14.
        "The Psychology of Coriolanus."  Penumbra 2:1 (Fall-Winter 1978): 19-28.
        "Rabe, Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s."  The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII: 3 (Spring 2007): 342-58.
        "Regional Tensions in Tennessee Williams's Candles to the Sun and Spring Storm."  South Atlantic Review 72:3 (Summer 2007): 38-50.
        "Signature Motifs in Midwestern Drama."  Forthcoming in Dictionary of Midwestern Literature.
        "Tennessee Williams's St. Louis on Stage."  Tennessee Williams Literary Journal VI: I (Winter 2008): 10-22.
        "Twain, Howells, and the Origins of Midwestern Drama."  MidAmerica XXXI (2004): 25-42.
        "Using Drama in the Composition Class."  Kentucky English Bulletin 37:2 (Winter 1987-88): 95-105.
        "War of the Wests: Saroyan's Dramatic Landscape."  American Drama 9:2 (Spring 2000): 29-49.
        "Western Drama and the New Frontier." American Drama 7:1 (Fall 1997): 99-120.
        "Wilder's Dramatic Landscape: Alienation Effect Meets the Midwest." American Drama 15:1 (Winter 2006): 43-61.
        "William Inge's Dramatic Mindscape."   South Dakota Review 42:3 (Fall 2004): 49-69.
        "You Can Go Home Again: Tennessee Williams' A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur."  Midwest Miscellany XXXIII (Fall 2006): 7-21.
 

Essays on Poetry:

        "On Poetry and Pain ."  A View from the Loft 24:6: 3-6, 17.
        ----------.  Rpt. The Muse Apprentice Guild (on-line), August 2002.
        ----------.  Rpt. Agora (on-line) XXVIII (Sept. 2002).
        "On Poetry Readings."   The Muse Apprentice Guild (on-line), Winter 2003.
        "Poetry, Beginnings to 1820." The Companion  to Southern Literature.  Eds. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKethan.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002.  655-58.
        "Poetry as Play." Poet and Critic Winter 1983-84: 37-40.
        "Recycling Poems." Orbis (UK) 65/66 (Summer-Autumn 1987): 41-43.
        "Toward a Less Primitive Prosody: Some Propositions."  Series of five articles. Counterpoint (UK), Summer 1977 to Spring 1979.
        "Unity of Vision in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land."  The Kaw Valley Literary Review 1:2 (Spring 1978): 11-16.
        "What's Wrong with Contemporary American Poetry."  A View from the Loft 11:2 (Sept. 1988): 1, 16-17.
 

Essays on Contemporary Writing:

        "Beyond Self-Expression." A View from the Loft 21:1 (August 1998): 4,10.
        "Caveat Emptor: A Comment on Creative Writing Programs."  A View from the Loft 9:3 (Nov. 1986): 8-9.
        "Comment" on creative writing programs.  College English 56:2 (Feb. 1994): 219-220.
        "Creative Writing in the Academy."  Profession 1999: 106-112.
        "The Literary Grants Climate in Illinois."  IWI Newsletter July 1990: 1, 3.
        "The New Regionalism." A View from the Loft 13:3 (Oct. 1990): 5, 16.
        "On Poetry and Religion." IWI Newsletter May 1992: 1.
        "On Writing and Wisdom." A View from the Loft 10:1 (Aug. 1987): 1, 6.
        "Patronage and the Arts." A View from the Loft 12:4 (Nov. 1989): 6, 14-15.
        "Publishing's Publishing for A' That."  A View from the Loft 14:9 (April 1992): 7, 20-21.
        "Rethinking Creative Writing."   Electronic Book Review (on-line), May 2001.
        "Species of Literary Fraud." A View from the Loft 15:10 (May 1993): 6-7, 17.
        ----------.  Rpt. Carousel , Vol. 16, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 1993, pp. 1, 10.  Rpt. Author World (on-line), 2000.
        "Writing and the Self-Expression Industry."  A View from the Loft12:1 (Aug. 1989): 3, 18.


Other Essays:

        "A Catalogue of Works Based on the Apocryphal Book of Judith: From the Mediaeval Period to the Present." Bulletin of Bibliography 44:3 (Sept. 1987): 89-92.
        "Graduate student unions won't destroy higher education."  Champaign News-Gazette 14 March 2001.
        "The Hidden Enemy." Journeyman l:1 (Winter 1991): 8-10.
        "The Other Side of Cancer."  Touch: Healing in the Arts 1 (Fall 2006): 10-14.
        "The Proud Virtues of Defeat." U.S. News and World Report 24 Aug. 1987: 5.
 

Reviews:

        Review of The Man and the World: Selected Essays and All Tables of Contents from the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter and Review 1977-2000.  Eds. Takashi Kodeira and Hiroshi Tsunemoto.  The Thomas Wolfe Review 29:1-2 (2005): 108-111.
        Review of My Father’s Hands, by Thomas Wolfe.  Ed. David Strange.  The Thomas Wolfe Review 30:1-2 (2006): 153-55.
        Review of The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview, by Michael McFee.  Knoxville: U Tennessee P, 2006.  Mississippi Quarterly.
 
 

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