Books

Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West (University of New Mexico Press, 2008). With Deborah Dimon, research assistant.

Nine Waves (Sutter House: Lititz, PA, 2003).  A second collection of poems by Jon Thiem, Bettie Anne Doebler, and Ralph Slotten.

Book of the Mermaid (Sutter House: Lititz, PA, 2001).  A collection of poems by Jon Thiem, Bettie Anne Doebler, and Ralph Slotten.

Real Life: Ten Stories of Aging (University Press of Colorado, 1994).  An anthology of short stories about aging by major writers.  With Patrick McKee.

Lorenzo de’ Medici: Selected Poems and Prose (Penn State University Press, 1991). 

Articles, Book Chapters, etc.

“Die Bibliothek von Alexandria brennt—wieder und wieder.”  Translated by Dr. Mona Koerte. In Verbergen. Ueberschreiben. Zerreissen: Formen der Buecherzerstoerung in Literatur, Kunst und Religion Hg. Koerte und Ortlieb (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2007), 31-45.  The original English version is reproduced on my website, under Essays.

“Intertextual Lives:  the Novel of Biographical Quest as a Postmodern Genre.”  In Sincronie III.5 (Milano, 1999), 137-150. This essay is reproduced on my website, under Essays.

“Myths of the Universal Library from Alexandria to the Postmodern Age” (rpt. from Serials Librarian—see below).  In Cyberspace Textuality. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan (Indiana University Press,1999), 256-266. 

"The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction."  In Magical Realism.  Ed. Wendy Faris and Lois Zamora (Duke University Press, 1995), 235-247.

"The Translator as Hero in Postmodern Fiction,"  Translation and Literature. Vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1995), 207-218.

"Myths of the Universal Library from Alexandria to the Postmodern Age,"  The Serials Librarian Vol.26 (1995), 63-74.

"The Return to Cosmology in Postmodern Writing," Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Munich:  Iudicium Verlag, 1990), 68-73.

"Borges, Dante, and the Poetics of Total Vision," Comparative Literature (Spring 1988), 97-121.

"Anti-Intellectualism," Dictionary of Literary Themes (Greenwood Press, 1988), 65-73.

"Isak Dinesen and her Precursors: The Case of Heine. "  In Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen:  Conference Proceedings (Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota, 1985), 23-28.

"Humanism and Bibliomania,"  Res Publica Litterarum: Studies in the Classical Tradition (1982), 227-246.

"The Dissent against Dissent," Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (1982), 36-43.

"L' essor de l' intellectuel dans l' Europe de la Renaissance," Cadmos (Geneva:  Été, 1980), 47-71.

"The Great Library of Alexandria Burnt: Towards the History of a Symbol," The Journal of the History of Ideas (Oct.-Dec., 1979), 507-526.

"Apaeε:  Heroic Poems of the Ashanti Court," Translation (Winter, 1978-79), 222-228.  A translation with introduction and notes, in collaboration with E. W. Owoahene-Akyeampong.

"Le roman post-utopique et la revolte contre la depersonnalisation," Cadmos (Geneva:  Automne, 1978), 64-86.