These selections reflect my academic interests deriving from my Master's Degree in Liberal Studies, with a concentration in History and Literature.
Research Projects: Reviews of rhetoric, language, and classic literature in book, film, TV and radio.
- Beats on Film: 1959
- Class and Social Stratification in Jude the Obscure
- Frank Zappa vs. John Lofton: A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1986 Crossfire Debate
- How to Speak Hip (1959)
- Interview with Jack Kerouac on The Ben Hecht Show, October 1958
- Isaac Asimov: Five Books by the Master of Science Fiction
- Jack Kerouac: Readings from On the Road and Visions of Cody
- Lord of the Flies (1963)
- Medieval Meditations on Death
- Mercutio’s Dream — The Queen Mab Soliloquy: Romeo and Juliet: Act I, Scene IV
- Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and the Norman-Saxon Conflict in Ivanhoe
- October in the Railroad Earth: Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen
- Poetics in the Post-Modern Age
- Radio Documentary: “Footloose in Greenwich Village” WNYC FM (1960)
- Review: Edward Dorn's Gunslinger
- Review: Ian McKellen's Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet at the Movies
- San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) — Jack Kerouac
- Symmetry, Symbolism, and the Industrial Age in Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- The Beatnik Café
- The Greenwich Village Poets: Charles Kuralt Reporting
The Literature of the Copernican Revolution: My master's degree thesis project, this series of academic essays surveys the scientists who led Europe out of the Middle Ages and revolutionized Western scientific study and theory.
- Introduction: The Galilean Parallax
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): The Starry Messenger
- Isaac Newton (1643-1727): Peering Inside the Mind of God
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630): The Secret of the Universe
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1593): Father of the Modern Universe
- Tycho Brahe (1546-1601): The Noble Dane
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