Articles

Roy J. Heffernan MD, FACS (father of James) and Willian A, Lynch, MD, "Is Therapeutic Abortion Scientifically Justified?" (1952)

"Wordsworth on Imagination: The Emblemizing Power," PMLA 81 (1966): 389-99.

"Wordsworth and Dennis: The Discrimination of Feelings," PMLA 82 (1967): 430-36.

"Wordsworth on the Sublime: The Quest for Interfusion," Studiesin English Literature 7 (1967): 605-615.

"Wordsworth on the Picturesque," English Studies 49 (1968): 489-98.

"Wordsworth on Imagination: A Reply to Arthur S. Pfeffer," PMLA 84 (1969): 144-46.

"Centripetal Vision in Pater's Marius," The Victorian Newsletter 35 (1969): 13-17.

"Honor: The Vanishing Principle," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Feb. 1975: 22-35.

"Politics and Freedom: Refractions of Blake in Joyce Cary and Allen Ginsberg," in Romantic and Modern, ed. George Bornstein (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1978): 177-95.

"The English Romantic Perception of Color," in Images of Romanticism: Verbal and Visual Affinities, ed. William Walling and Karl Kroeber (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978).

"Reflections on Reflections in English Romantic Poetry and Painting," Bucknell Review: The Arts and TheirInterrelations, ed. Harry Garvin (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1979), 15-37.

"Mutilated Autobiography: Wordsworth's Poems of 1815,"The Wordsworth Circle 10 (1979): 107-112.

"Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Turner: The Geometry of the Infinite," Bucknell Review: The Arts, Society, Literature. ed. Harry R. Garvin and James Heath (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1984), 49-72.

"The Draft: To Register or not to Register," Dartmouth AlumniMagazine Nov. 1984: 34-36.

"Adonais: Shelley's Consumption of Keats," Studies in Romanticism 23 (1984): 295-315. Reprinted in Romanticism: A Critical Reader, ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994): 173-91.

"Space and Time in Literature and the Visual Arts," Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 70 (1987) 95-119.

"Resemblance, Signification, and Metaphor in the Visual Arts," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 44 (1985): 167-80.

"The Temporalization of Space in Wordsworth, Turner, and Constable," Space, Time, Image, Sign: Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts, ed. James A. W. Heffernan (New York: Peter Lang, 1987): 63-77.

"Text and Design in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience," in Imagination on a Long Rein: English Literature Illustrated, ed. Joachim Moller. (Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 1988) 94-109.

"Self-Representation in Byron and Turner," Poetics Today 10 (1989) 207-14.

"The Presence of the Absent Mother in Wordsworth's Prelude," Studies in Romanticism 27 (1988) 253-72.

"Ekphrasis and Representation," New Literary History, 22 (1991): 297-316.

"Wordsworth, Constable, and the Poetics of Chiaroscuro," Word and Image 5 (1989) 260-77.

"Re-Creating Landscape: Wordsworth, Turner, and Constable," Humanities 8 (1987) 24-27.

"Blake's Oothoon: The Dilemmas of Marginality," Studies inRomanticism, 30 (1991) 3-18.

"Painting Against Poetry: Reynolds' Discourses and the Discourse of Turner's Art," Word and Image 7 (1991): 275-99. Reprinted in So Rich a Tapestry: Essays in the Sister Arts and Cultural Studies, ed. Anne Hurley and Kate Greenspan (Bucknell UP, 1995). Greenspan (Bucknell University Press, 1995): 151-77.

"History and Autobiography: The French Revolution in Wordsworth's Prelude." Representing the French Revolution (see Books): 41-62.

"[A] superlative essay, the best modern reading of The Prelude I know, both from its sensitive unpacking of Wordsworth's creative strategy . . . and also wonderful on the formal devices by which this is brought off. A truly remarkable piece of work. I'll never read The Prelude in the same way again."
--Simon Schama, Reader's report for UPNE

"A clear and accessible account of difficult and complex terrain which manages to make fresh discoveries from out of this well- covered ground."
--Year's Work in English Studies, Vols. 73-74, p. 345

"Lusting for the Natural Sign," essay-review of Murray Krieger, Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (1992). Semiotica 98 (1994): 221-29.

"Wrestling with the Angel: How John Lincoln and I Learned to Negotiate with Norton" (1994, previously unpublished)

"Entering the Museum of Words: Browning's 'My Last Duchess' and Twentieth-Century Century Ekphrasis," Icons-Texts-Iconotexts: Essays on Ekphrasis and Intermediality, ed. Peter Wagner (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996), 262-80.

"Alberti on Apelles: Word and Image in De Pictura." International Journalof the Classical Tradition 2.3 (1996): 345-59.

"Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film." Critical Inquiry 24 (1997): 133-58. Reprinted in Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed. (Norton: New York, 2011).

"Entering the Museum of Words: Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.'" Pictures into Words: Theoretical and Descriptive Approachesto Ekphrasis, ed. Valerie Robillard and Els Jongeneel (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1998): 189-211.

"Wordsworth's London: The Imperial Monster." Studies in Romanticism 37 (Fall 1998): 421-443.

"Wordsworth's 'Leveling' Muse in 1798," 1798: The Year of the LYRICAL BALLADS, ed. Richard Cronin (London: Macmillan, 1998): 231-53.

"Speaking for Pictures: The Rhetoric of Art Criticism." Word & Image, 15:1 (January-March 1999), 19-33.

"eloquent and provocative"-- Leo Steinberg, Letter to the Author (29 April 1999)

"Who Needs Rhetoric?" Inaugural lecture delivered as Frederic Sessions Beebe Professor in the Art of Writing, Dartmouth College, October 12, 1998.

"The Simpson Trial and the Forgotten Trauma of Lynching: A Response to Shoshona Felman." Critical Inquiry 25 (Summer 1999): 801-06.

"Literacy and Picturacy: How Do We Learn to Read Pictures?" Prisms: Essays in Romanticism 7 (1999): 17-49. Revised for Cultural Functions of Intermedial Expoloration, ed. Erik Hedling and Ulla-Britta Lagerroth (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002): 35-66.

"Hockney Rewrites Hogarth: A Gay Rake Progresses to America."Art on Paper 4.2 (Nov.-Dec. 1999): 56-61, 103.

"Joyce's Merrimanic Heroine: Molly versus Bloom in Midnight Court." James Joyce Quarterly 41.4 (Summer 2004): 745-65

"Peter Milton's Turn: An American Printmaker Marks the End of the Millennium." Word & Image 16 (April-June 2000): 177-96.

"Love, Death, and Grotesquerie: Beardsley's Illustrations of Wild and Pope." Book Illustrated: Text, Image, and Culture 1770-1730, ed. Catherine J. Golden (New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000): 195-240.

"James Joyce," in British Writers: Retrospective Supplement, ed. Jay Parini (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002): 169-82.

" 'Cruel Persuasion': Seduction, Temptation, and Agency in Hardy's Tess."Thomas Hardy Year Book 35 (2005): 5-18.

"Ekphrasis; Art Criticism and the Poetry of Art," Krysinger (Crossings), ed. Ole Karlston (Oslo: Oslo Academic Press, 2007) 21-46.

"Staging Absorption and Transmuting the Everyday: A Response to Michael Fried Critical Inquiry 34 (Summer 2008): 818-34.  

"Serving Two Masters: Portraiture and History in the Discourses and Art of Sir Joshua Reynolds." Colloquium paper, September 2010.

"Editorial: The Case for Online Reviewing." Review 19, October 2012

“Wordsworth and Landscape”, The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, ed. Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2015): 614-28.

"Art, Science and  Sacrifice in the Experiments of  Joseph Wright and Shelagh Stephenson"  in  Representing Restoration, Enlightenment and Romanticism, ed. Anja Müller, Achim Hescher, and Anke Uebel  (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2014): 115-125.

"Tracking a Reader: What Did Virginia Woolf Really Think of Ulysses?" Parallaxes: Virginia Woolf and James Joyce Seventy Years After. Ed. Sara Sullam and Marco Canani (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014): 1-20.

“Ekphrasis: Theory.”  Handbook of Intermediality: Literature—Image—Sound—Music, ed.  Gabriele  Rippl.  (Berlin / Boston:  Walter De Gruyter, 2015): 35-49.

“Notes Toward a Theory of Cinematic Ekphrasis,” Fictional Cinema: How Literature  Describes Imaginary Films. Ed. Stefano Ercolino, Massimo Fusillo, Mirko Lino, and Luca Zenobi (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Unipress, 2015): 3-17.

“The Verbal and the Visual,” in Companion to Literary Theory, ed. David H. Richter (New York: Blackwell, 2018) 165-75.

“Afterword.” Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts, ed. David Kennedy and Richard Meek. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2018.

“Peter Milton’s Tsunami:  Turner, Constable & Ruskin at Sea in a New American Print,” Turner Society News 130 (Autumn 2018): 3-7.

“Peter Milton’s Tsunami”: online and fully illustrated.

“Reading Pictures,” PMLA 134:1 (January 2019): 18-34.

"Reading Pictures," PMLA 134.1 (2019). Fully illustrated, corrected, and posted here 9 January 2024.

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“Bodily Ekphrasis,” Imagining Vesalius: An Ekphrastic, Scholarly, and Literary Celebration of the 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius, ed. Richard M. Ratzan (San Francisco, CA: University of California Medical Humanities Press, 2020): 9-13. 

"Why We Need the Humanities," The American Scholar on the web, posted October 30, 2021
https://theamericanscholar.org/why-we-need-the-humanities/

"Cracking the Mirror: Autobiography and Self-Portraiture," in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art, ed. Neil Murphy, W. Michelle Wang, and Cheryl Julia Lee (New York: Taylor and Francis, forthcoming 2023)

"Why Can't Academic Books Be Affordable?" The Authors Guild Bulletin (Summer-Fall 2022): 23-26.

"James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and the War to Come." Published on this site November 2023.

"Column: Are We Getting it Wrong on Prostate Cancer Screening?" Valley News (Lebanon, New Hampshire). November 13, 2023.

"There's a Difference between Intifada and Genocide," Valley News, Lebanon, New Hampshire, December 16, 2023

"Claudine Gay and the Hair-Raising History of Celebrity Plagiarism." Posted here January 18, 2024.

"LET'S HAVE ALL FIRST YEAR DARTMOUTH STUDENTS TAKE ONE FULL YEAR OF HUMANITIES COURSES." Posted here May 8, 2024.

"The Dartmouth Protests and the Humanities: a Message to my Colleagues." Posted here May 10, 2024.

"What President Beilock Might Now Say to Revive Her Presidency." Posted here May 25, 2024.