Books:            

1) Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984       

2) Language Mysticism: The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett and Celan, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995

3) The Art of Poetry, Oxford University Press, 2001; second printing, 2002

4) Major Voices in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry, Selected with Introductory Essays, London: Tobypress, 2004

5) Poetry and Public Discourse (1820-1910), The Cambridge History of American Literature Vol. IV, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, Cambridge University Press 2004,  147-480

6) Defending Identity with Natan Sharansky, NY: Public Affairs,  2008  in production

Edited:

1) 20th-Century American Women’s Poetries of Engagement,  Sources Spring 2002, No. 12, with Cristina Giorcelli and Cristanne Miller

2) Edited with introduction: Walt Whitman: Collected Poems Toby Press, 2003

Articles:

1)       “Derrida, Jabes, Levinas:  Sign Theory as Ethical Discourse," Prooftexts, vol. 2, 1982,  283‑3O2.

2)        "Emily Dickinson's War Poetry:  The Problem of Theodicy," The Massachusetts          Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 1984, 22‑41.

3)       "The Slayers of Moses," Association for Jewish Studies, Vol IX No. 2 Fall 1984, pp. 273‑281

4)       "Paul Celan's Linguistic Mysticism," Studies inTwentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1986, 191-211.

5)       "Mystical Language and Mystical Silence in Paul Celan's 'Dein Hinu"bersein,'" in Argumentum e Silentio, Amy Colin, ed., New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1987, 364-374.

6)       “Rhetoric or Not: Hymnal Tropes in Emily Dickinson and Isaac Watts,"  The New England Quarterly, Volume LXI, No. 2, June, 1988, 214-232.

7)       "Samuel Beckett's Figural Evasions," in Languages of the Unsayable, Sanford Budick and Wollfgang Iser, eds. New York: Columbia, University Press, 1989, 165- 186.

8)       "Representing Motherhood: The Trope of Mother/Bird in Anne Bradstreet and Marianne Moore," Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 18, 1990, 156-176.

9)       "The Negative Way Negated: Samuel Beckett's Texts for Nothing," New Literary History No. 22, 1991, 213-231

10)   "The Need of Being Versed: Robert Frost and the Limits of Rhetoric," Essays in Literature, Vol. 18,  No. 1, Spring 1991: 76-92

11)   "Pharisaic," Common Knowledge, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall, 1993, 66-80.

12)   "Representing Other Voices: Rhetorical Perspective in Elizabeth Bishop," Style Volume 29, No. 1, Spring 1995, 1-17.

13)   "Language Asceticism in "Four Quartets," in I silenzi dei testi e i silenzi della critica, ed. Carla Locatelli, Universita degli studi di Trento, 1996, 221-243.

14)   "An American-Jewish Typology: Emma Lazarus and the Figure of Christ," Prooftexts Vol.16 No. 2 May 1996,113-125.

15)   "On Cavell on Whitman: Questions about Application" Common Knowledge Vol. 5 no. 2 Fall 1996, 61-71.

16)   "An "Other" Negative Theology: On Derrida's "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials," Poetics Today 19:2, Summer 1998, 261-280.

17)   "On (Mis-)Translating Paul Celan," Conditio Judaica, Band 28 1999 145-154.

18)   "The Metaphysics of Language in Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan," Trajectories of Mysticism, ed. Philip Leonard, St. Martin's Press, 2000, 25-45.

19)   "Apophatics and Poetics: Paul Celan Translating Emily Dickinson,"in Language and Negativity, ed. Henny Fiska Hagg, Oslo: Novus Press, 2000, 63-83.

20)   "Emily Dickinson's Manuscript Body," Emily Dickinson Journal, VIII, 2, 1999, 87-99.

21)   "Santayana and Harvard Formalism," Raritan XVIII:4, Spring 1999 51-67.

22)   “Dickinson’s Emerson,” Emily Dickinson’s Journal, IX: 2, 2000, 134-141.

23)   “Democracy in America: By Dr. Seuss” Southwestern Review, Vol. 85 No. 2, Spring 2000, 167-210.

24)   “Modest Selves: Dickinson’s Critique of American Identity,” Emily Dickinson at Home, ed. Gudrun Grabher and Martina Antretter, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001, 1-12.

25)   “The Lyric, History, and the Avant-Garde: Theorizing Paul Celan,” Poetics Today, Vol 22, No 3, Fall 2001, 651-668.

26)    “Interpretation Beyond Metaphysics”  Judaism and Modernity, ed. Jonathan Malino, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2004, 53-64.

27)   “Charlotte Gilman’s Public Poetry,” Sources, Spring No. 12, 2002, pp. 11-28.

28)   “Melville’s Unreading of the Bible: Redburn and The Confidence Man, Letteratura D’America,  XXI n. 88-89, 2001, 31-52

29)   “John Hollander,” Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003.

30)   “Israel and America: Revisioning History” Michigan Quarterly Review Winter 2003 42:1, 39-50

31)   “Walt Whitman’s Poetic Worlds,” Walt Whitman: Collected Poetry, ed. Shira Wolosky, Tobypress, 2003,  1-18

32)   "American Visions of Light: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson," Light, (Jerusalem: Adi Foundation, 2004) (Hebrew).

33)    “A Jewish-American Poetics”  Cambridge Companion to Jewish-American Literature, ed. Michael Kramer and Hannah Wirth-Nesher, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 250-268

34)   "Women's Bibles," Feminist Studies, Vol. 28, no. 1 Spring 2002, 191-211.

35)   “Moral Finitude and the Ethics of Language,” Common Knowledge 9:3 Fall 2003 406-423

36)    “The Claims of Rhetoric: Towards an Historical Poetics,” American Literary History, Spring 2003 15:1,  14-22

37)   “Public Women, Private Men: American Women Poets and the Common Good,” Signs, Winter 2003 Vol. 28, no. 2, 665-694

38)   "Being in the Body," Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson, ed. Wendy Martin, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 129-141.

39)    “Public and Private in Emily Dickinson’s War Poetry,” A Historical Guide to  Emily Dickinson, ed. Vivian Pollack , (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 103-132

40)   "The Lonely Woman of Faith," Judaism,  Vol. 52. Nos. 1-2, 2004, 3-18

41)   "The Ethics of Foucauldian Poetics: Women's Selves," New Literary History, Vol. 35, No. 3, Summer 2004, 491-506

42)  " Medical-Industrial Discourses in Muriel Rukeyser's" "Book of the Dead,"" Literature and Medicine  2006

43)   "Emily Dickinson: Reclusion against Itself" Common Knowledge,   April 2006

44)   “Gershom Scholem’s Linguistic Theory,” in Gershom Scholem, ed. Joseph Dan and Peter Schafer, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tubingen, 2006

Reprinted:

"A Syntax of Contention," (reprinted) in Emily Dickinson, Harold Bloom, ed., New York: Chelsea House,  1986, 161-186;

"Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War," (reprinted) in American Women Poets, Harold Bloom, ed. New York: Chelsea House, 1986, 17-22

From Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War in She Wields a Pen, ed. Janet Gray, U of Iowa Press, 1997, 333-334

“The Need of Being Versed: Robert Frost and the Limits of Rhetoric,” Harold Bloom, ed. New York: Chelsea House, 2003.

“Public Woman, Private Man,” (Hebrew) Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, 2003–09–29

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