“The Recipe for Charles Wright,” in Evaluations of US Poetry Since 1950: Language, Form, and Music, ed. Robert von Hallberg and Robert Faggen (University of New Mexico Press, 2021), vol. 1, pp. 245-59.
“What is Authorial Intention?” Philosophy and Literature, vol. 45, no. 1 (April, 2021), 55-70.
“Psychoanalysis and Modernism” in British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940: Futility and Anarchy, ed. Charles Ferrall and Dougal MacNeill (Cambridge University Press, 2018), chapter 6.
“Why Did Literature Professors Turn Against Authors–Or Did They?” The Los Angeles Review of Books, January 13, 2019. This essay provides a more developed historical account of the subject than the introduction to my book The Varieties of Authorial Intention.
“Auden’s Call to Arms: ‘Spain’ and Psychoanalysis,” Cambridge Quarterly vol. 38, no. 3 (2009): 225-242.
“The Birth of the Psychoanalytic Hero: Freud’s Platonic Leonardo,” Philosophy and Literature vol. 31, no. 2 (2007): 233-254.
“Literature and Psychoanalysis,” in The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture, ed. Edwin Erwin (New York: Routledge, 2002), 324-26.
“The English Iliad: On Three Translations of The Iliad,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, October 30, 2012. [This article had an erroneous phrase–“in the original”–added to it in the editorial process and not caught by me till after it was published and I had already responded to readers’ comments. Its removal explains why one of the comments complains about something that is not actually found in the text.]
“What Is Literature?” A document created to help me clarify my own thinking about what constitutions literature, being dissatisfied with the way many philosophers define literature solely with reference to institutions.