Essays and articles

Here are a selection of essays, articles and other writings.

Selection from Poetry Nation Review

• The Comedy of Terrors: Reading Myth with Marina Warner
• The Voice of Ariel
• The Moronic Inferno
• The Story So Far
• The Beat Vision

Green Letters

• Editorial (No.1)
• Bate & Leavis: An Ecocritical Connection?
• Genesis and the Nature of Myth

Article on William Tyndale and the Bible

• Tyndale, Interpretation and Revelation

Rereadings

• The Hero's Journey
• King Lear
• Murder in the Cathedral
• Death of a Salesman
• Waiting for Godot
• Story and vision in the poetry of Thomas Hardy
  

Essay on Gary Snyder

• A Quest for Place: Gary Snyder's Search for a Living Myth

Article on Jack Kerouac

• A Route to Revelation: Re-reading The Dharma Bums

Times Higher Education (THE) reviews

All THE reviews are on their website, and open in a new browser window.

• 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
  
• Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare [brief note]
• The Great Work [brief note]
• Bargainin’ For Salvation: Bob Dylan, A Zen Master? [brief note]
• Nature Crime [brief note]
• Green Man Hopkins [brief note]
• The Jukebox in the Garden [brief note]
• Ecological Ethics [brief note]
• Sophistication [brief note]
• Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches [brief note]

Film and music reviews

• Gran Torino, dir. Clint Eastwood
• 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
• The Kinks Choral Collection by Ray Davies and the Crouch End Festival Chorus
• 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 & Ethan Coen
• Of Gods and Men, dir. Xavier Beauvois & Winter’s Bone, dir. Debra Granik
• George Harrison: Living in the Material World, dir. Martin Scorsese

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