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Publications—Complete List

• 2007 The Shakespearean Name: Essays on "Romeo and Juliet", "The Tempest", and Other Plays. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt/M-New York-Oxford-Wien: Peter Lang, 2007. (233 pp.) [ISBN 978-3-03911-226-5]
• 2003 The Serpent’s Part: Narrating the Self in Canadian Literature. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt/M-New York-Oxford-Wien: Peter Lang, 2003. (211 pp.) [ISBN 3-03910-039-4]
• 2002 Giorno nella notte: quattro saggi su “Romeo e Giulietta”. Lecce: Milella, 2002. (123 pp.) [ISBN 88-7048-380-0]
• 2002 Ancestors and Gods: Margaret Laurence and the Dialectics of Identity. Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt/M-New York-Oxford-Wien: Peter Lang, 2002. (212 pp.) [ISBN 3-906767-56-6]
• 1997 Plays Upon the Word: Shakespeare’s Drama of Language. Lecce: Milella, 1997. (228 pp.) [ISBN 88-7048-329-0]
• 1995 Myth and Identity: Essays on Canadian Literature. Lecce: Milella, 1995. (158 pp.) [ISBN 88-7048-299-5]
• 1991 Beyond Innocence: Literary Transformations of the Fall. Rome: Nuova Arnica, 1991. (131 pp.)
• 1986 Conrad’s Mysteries: Variations on an Archetypal Theme. Lecce: Milella, 1986. (270 pp.) [ISBN 88-7048-129-8]
• 1983 The Artifice of Eternity: An Essay on “The Tempest”. Lecce: Adriatica Editrice Salentina, 1983. (133 pp.)
• 1982 The Choice of Nightmares: Conrad’s “Lord Jim” and “Heart of Darkness”. Lecce: Adriatica Editrice Salentina: Lecce, 1982. (125 pp.)

• 2010  “Brutus's Reasons: Julius Caesar and the Mystery of Motive”.  English Studies 91:2 (April 2010): 119-132.
  [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380903355148]
  Available online (free access)
• 2008 “Hamlet and the Narrative Construction of Reality”. English Studies 89:2 (April 2008): 152-65.
  [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380801912958]
• 2008 “To Tell My Story: Narrating Identity in Shakespeare”. The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 27 (2007/2008): 52-66.
• 2006 “Imperfect Speakers: Macbeth and the Name of King”. English Studies 87:4 (August 2006): 415-25.
  [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380600768247]
• 2005 “A Bird of Another Feather: Will Shake-Scene’s Belated Revenge”. The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 25 (2005): 51-7.
• 2004 “Carrying Tempest in His Hand and Voice: The Figure of the Magician in Jonson and Shakespeare”. English Studies 85:4 (August 2004): 297-310.
  [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380412331339118]
• 2001 “Uncomfortable Time in Romeo and Juliet”. English Studies 82:2 (April 2001): 115-26.
  [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/enst.82.2.115.9595]
• 2000 “A Will and Two Ways: The Ambivalence of Evil in Robertson Davies’s The Deptford Trilogy”. Canadian Literature n. 165 (Summer 2000): 44-56.
• 2000 “Our Devils Now Are Ended: A Comparative Analysis of The Tempest and Doctor Faustus”. Dalhousie Review 80:2 (Summer 2000): 151-67.
• 1997 “‘And all things change them to the contrary’: Romeo and Juliet and the Metaphysics of Language”. English Studies 78:1 (January 1997): 8-18.
• 1997 “Bringing Deformed Forth: Engendering Meaning in Much Ado About Nothing”. Renaissance Forum 2.1 (Spring 1997).
• 1996 “Each word made true and good: Narrativity in Hamlet”. Dalhousie Review 76.2 (Summer 1996): 177-96.
• 1996 “‘The Price of One Fair Word’: Negotiating Names in Coriolanus”. Early Modern Literary Studies 2.1. (April 1996): 4.1-22.
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• 1995 “That Which We Call a Name: The Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet”. English: The Journal of the English Association 44, n. 178 (Spring 1995): 1-16.
• 1995 “Telling Tales in The Turn of the Screw”. Durham University Journal 87:1 (January 1995): 63-71.
• 1994 “Putting Out the Light: Semantic Indeterminacy and the Deconstitution of Self in Othello”. English Studies 75:2 (March 1994): 110-22.
• 1994 “‘And Strange Speech is in Your Mouth’: Language and Alienation in Margaret Laurence’s This Side Jordan”. Canadian Literature n. 141 (Summer 1994): 57-69.
• 1992 “The Politics of Consciousness”. Cambridge Quarterly 21:4 (1992): 367-70.
  [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/camqtl/XXI.4.367]
• 1990 “Making a Name for Oneself: Language and Identity in Conrad’s Lord Jim and Under Western Eyes”. Igitur 2:1 (1990): 55-72.
• 1990 “In Pursuit of the Faceless Stranger: Depths and Surfaces in Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm”. Studies in Canadian Literature 15:1 (1990): 76-93.
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• 1989 “Standing for Sacrifice: The Casket and Trial Scenes in The Merchant of Venice”. University of Toronto Quarterly 58:3 (Spring 1989): 355-75.
• 1985 “‘Between Things’: Public Mythology and Personal Identity in the Fiction of Mordecai Richler”. Dalhousie Review 65:2 (Summer 1985): 243-60.

• 2010 “‘That historyless man, George Castriot’: The Scanderbeg Legend in English Literature”. The Living Skanderbeg: The Albanian Hero between Myth and Reality, edited by Monica Genesin, Joachim Matzinger & Giancarlo Vallone, 1-18. Hamburg: Kovač, 2010. [ISBN 978-3-8300-4416-1]
• 2008 “Unsettling the Wilderness: The Interloping Pioneer in Atwood and Grove”. American and Canadian Literature and Culture Across a Latitudinal Line, edited by Klaus Martens and Paul Morris, 13-27. Saarbrücken: Amarant Presse, 2008. [ISBN 978-3-00-024566]
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• 2005 “Narcissus in the Underworld: Counterpointing Myths in The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’”. The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures: Second Series, edited by Mario Curreli, 43-54. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2005. [ISBN 88-467-1227-7].
• 2003 “‘A second Eden just emerged from the waters of chaos’: Making Things New in Roughing It in the Bush”. The Canadian Alternative, edited by Klaus Martens, 92-104. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003. [ISBN 3-8260-2635-7].
• 2001 “Name-Calling in Howard O’Hagan’s Tay John”. Il Canada e le culture della globalizzazione, edited by Alfredo Rizzardi e Giovanni Dotoli, 645-55. Fasano: Schena, 2001.
• 1999 “Through the Consuming Element: The Journey Motif in Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush”. Prospettive di Cultura Canadese: Atti del Seminario Internazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Canadesi, edited by Giovanni Dotoli, 281-9. Fasano: Schena, 1999.
• 1998 “From Jordan to the Ottonabee: Margaret Laurence’s River”. Acqua: Realtà e Metafora, edited by Caterina Ricciardi, Laura Ferri and Fabio Mugnaini, 179-86. Rome: Semar, 1998.
• 1993 “The Vessel of Metaphor: Naming Names in George Bowering’s Burning Water”. Commonwealth Literary Cultures: New Voices, New Approaches, edited by Giovanna Capone, Claudio Gorlier and Bernard Hickey, 297-307. Lecce: Edizioni del Grifo, 1993.
• 1993 “‘Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light’: Images of light and darkness in Shakespeare”. La Luce e le sue metafore, edited by Bruna Donatelli, 76-90. Rome: Nuova Arnica, 1993.
• 1989 “Distant Music: Symbolic Polarization in Joyce’s ‘The Dead’”. Tempo e Scrittura: Studi in memoria di Bert Charleton, edited by B. Bianco Wojciechowska, et. al., 127-51. Galatina [Lecce]: Congedo Editore, 1989.
• 1986 “The Canadian Abroad: Modes of Exile in the Novels of Mordecai Richler”. Canada Ieri e Oggi: Atti del VI Convegno Internazionale di Studi Canadesi, vol. II, edited by Giovanni Bonanno, 319-30. Fasano: Schena, 1986.

• 2010 “Bringing Deformed Forth: Engendering Meaning in Much Ado about Nothing”. Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 131. Detroit: Gale Group, 2010. [ISBN 1-4144-4776-0]
• 2010 “Our Devils Now Are Ended: A Comparative Analysis of The Tempest and Doctor Faustus”. Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 128. Detroit: Gale Group, 2010. [ISBN 1-4144-4201-7]
• 2009 “Imperfect Speakers: Macbeth and the Name of King”. Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 119, 265-72. Detroit: Gale Group, 2009. [ISBN 1-4144-3324-7]
• 2006 “Uncomfortable Time in Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 97, 84-91. Detroit: Gale Group, 2006. [ISBN 0-7876-8835-5]
• 2002 “‘And all things change them to the contrary’: Romeo and Juliet and the Metaphysics of Language”. Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 65, 208-14. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. [ISBN 0-7876-5240-7]
• 2000 “Putting Out the Light: Semantic Indeterminacy and the Deconstitution of Self in Othello”. Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 53, 343-50. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. [ISBN 0-7876-3148-5]
• 1999 “‘And all things change them to the contrary’: Romeo and Juliet and the Metaphysics of Language”. Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1997: A Selection of the Year’s Most Noteworthy Studies of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, vol. 42, 271-7. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999. [ISBN 0-7876-1987-6]
• 1997 “That Which We Call a Name: The Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1995: A Selection of the Year’s Most Noteworthy Studies of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, vol. 32, 276-83. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. [ISBN 0-8103-9978-4]
• 1991 “Standing for Sacrifice: The Casket and Trial Scenes in The Merchant of Venice”. Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1989: A Selection of the Year’s Most Noteworthy Studies of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, vol. 13, 43-52. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.  [ISBN 0-8103-6137-X]

• 2009 “Killing Metaphors in Julius Caesar”. Lingue e Linguaggi 3 (2009): 73-87.
• 2009 “Reply to Wendy Roy's 'Metaphors of Dualism in Margaret Laurence's Writings'”. Lingue e Linguaggi 3 (2009): 203-6.
• 2008 “To Double Business Bound: Hamlet and Julius Caesar as Tragic Diptych”. Lingue e Linguaggi 1 (2008): 157-74.
• 2006 “Journeymen in Darkness: Joseph Conrad and the Canadian Literary Imagination”. Quaderni 24 (2006), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università del Salento: 187-201.
• 2006 “Laurence’s Comedy of the Soul” — Review of Margaret Laurence’s Epic Imagination, by Paul Comeau. Margaret Laurence Review 15-16 (2005-2006): 23-7.
• 2004 “Shakespeare and the Name of King”. Quaderni 21 (1999 [2004]), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 163-95.
• 2003 “Art of a Stranger” — Review of Alien Heart: The Life and Work of Margaret Laurence, by Lyall Powers. Margaret Laurence Review 13 (2003): 5-8.
• 2002 “Hagar's Bestiary: Zoological Imagery in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel”. Rivista di Studi Canadesi 15 (2002): 95-105.
• 2001 “Sparks Struck from Cold Stone: Petrographical Symbolism in Conrad’s Lord Jim”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce, 7 (2001): 365-77.
• 2001 “La dicotomia Ordine-Disordine nella letteratura anglo-canadese”. Quaderni del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi 2 (2001): 109-18.
• 1999 “The Unmerry-go-round of Pointless Words: Margaret Laurence’s The Fire-Dwellers as Thematic Complement to A Jest of God”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 5 (1999): 327-40.
• 1998 “That Bare Vowel I: A Note on Romeo and Juliet”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 4 (1998): 267-76.
• 1998 “The Comedy Company of the Psyche: Roles, Masks, and Identity in Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 4 (1998): 407-29.
• 1998 “Straight Lines in a Curved Space: The Order/Disorder Dichotomy in Anglo-Canadian Literature”. Rivista di Studi Canadesi 11 (1998): 127-40.
• 1997 “Speaking in Tongues: Liberating Voices in Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 3 (1997): 357-74.
• 1996 “Ego in Arcadia: The Doctrine of Evil in Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 2 (1996): 255-69.
• 1996 “Rites (and Wrongs) of Passage: Susanna Moodie’s Ambiguous Initiation”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 2 (1996): 293-321.
• 1995 “Ciò che chiamiamo un nome: La scena del balcone in Romeo and Juliet”. Ricerca Research Recherche, Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce, 1 (1995): 65-81.
• 1993 “The ‘Real Story’: Making History in Atwood’s The Robber Bride”. Quaderni 15 (1993), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Univ. degli Studi di Lecce: 201-15.
• 1992 “What is Canadian about Canadian Literature?”. Quaderni 14 (1992), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 81-102.
• 1992 “Comment on David Turner’s ‘Genesis and Revelation’”. Igitur 4:2 (1992): 85-8.
• 1987 “Reading into Facts: The Turn of the Screw and the Perils of Interpretation”. Quaderni 9 (1987) Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 89-141.
• 1987 “The Long Note of the Bugle: T. E. Hulme’s Theory of Poetry”. Quaderni 9 (1987), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 215-46.
• 1985 “Sifting the Ruins of Time: Permanence and Change in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway”. Quaderni 7 (1985) Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 61-93.
• 1984 “Renewing Fallen Light: Luminary Symbolism and its Manipulation in Shakespeare, Blake and Conrad”. Quaderni 6 (1984), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 61-107.
• 1983 “Cleansing the Doors of Perception: Human Duality and the Problem of Identity in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes”. Quaderni 5 (1983), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 47-78.
• 1982 “The Third Age of Man in Conrad’s Fiction: ‘Youth’, ‘The End of the Tether’ and The Rover”. Quaderni 4 (1982), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 63-89.
• 1982 “Time’s Fools: The Secret Agent and the City of Desolation”. Quaderni 4 (1982), Dip. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 91-126.
• 1981 “The Figure in the Carpet: Structure and Theme in the Tales of Henry James”. Quaderni 3 (1981), Ist. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 85-108.
• 1980 “Romance as Irony in The American by Henry James”. Quaderni 2 (1980), Ist. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 93-115.
• 1979 “Emblems of Passage: The Bhagavad Gita and A Passage to India”. Quaderni 1 (1979), Ist. di Lingue e Lett. Stran., Università degli Studi di Lecce: 85-103.