Selected Publications of Richard Tuerk

Emerson's Darker Vision: 'Hamatreya' and 'Days.'" Characteristics of Emerson, Transcendental Poet: A Symposium. Ed. Carl F. Strauch. Hartford: Transcendental, 1975; also in American Transcendental Quarterly 25 (Winter 1975): 28-33.

Central Still: Circle and Sphere in Thoreau's Prose. De Proprietatibus Litterarum, Series Practica 98. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

Appearance and Reality in Mark Twain's 'Which Was the Dream?' 'The Great Dark,' and 'Which Was It?'" Illinois Quarterly 40.3 (Spring 1978): 23-34. Reprinted without notes in Short Story Criticism. Vol. 6. Ed. Thomas C. Votteler. Detroit: Gale, 1990. 330-34.

"Jacob Riis and the Jews." New-York Historical Society Quarterly 63 (1979): 179-201.

"Letter to Henry" (poem).  Thoreau Journal Quarterly 11.3-4 (July and Oct. 1979): 41.

"Mythic Patterns of Reconciliation in Emerson's 'Threnody.'" ESQ 27 (1981): 181-88.

"Emerson's 'Berrying.'" American Notes and Queries 20 (1982): 104-07.

"Jewish-American Literature." Ethnic Perspectives in American Literature: Selected Essays on the European Contribution. Ed. Robert J. DiPietro and Edward Ifkovic. New York: MLA, 1983. 133-62. Reprinted without notes in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 62 (1996):14-24.

"Jews Without Money as a Work of Art." Studies in American Jewish Literature 7 (1988): 67-79.

"Emerson and the Wasting of Beauty: 'The Rhodora.'" ATQ ns 4.1 (Mar. 1990): 5-11.

"The American Spectator Controversy: Was Dreiser Anti-Semitic?" Prospects (1991): 367-89.

"At Home in the Land of Columbus: Americanization in European-American Immigrant Autobiography." Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives. Ed. James Robert Payne. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1992. 114-38.

"Emerson's 'Woodnotes' Poems." ATQ ns 6.4 (Dec. 1992): 295-305.

"What Side Was He On? Mike Gold During the Period of the Hitler-Stalin Pact." Modern Jewish Studies 9 (1994) (Yiddish 9.3-4 [1994]) : 86-117.

"Michael Gold's Hoboken Blues: An Experiment that Failed." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 20.4 (winter 1995): 3-15.

"Dorothy's Adventures Underground." Baum Bugle 40.3 (winter 1996): 12-19.

"Teaching Composition Via Distance Education." The Fourth Annual National Distance Education Conference 1997 Conference Proceedings, January 29-31, 1997, Corpus Christi, Texas. College Station: Center for Distance Learning, 1997. 189-97.

"Teaching Composition via Videoconferencing Using a Multi-Ethnic American Literature Reader." Engines of Change: A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Culture. [Ed.] Randy Bass. [Washington]: American Studies Assn., 1997. 2-109-114.
 
 "Good Witches in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." The Round Table N.S. 11 (spring 1999): 1-5.

"Upper-Middle-Class Madness: H. G. Wells' Time Traveller Journeys to Wonderland." Extrapolation 46.4 (Winter 2005): 517-26.

“The Great Explorer's True Discovery in The Miami Giant.” JASAT 36 (Dec. 2005): 57-68.

Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. This book has been named a finalist in the 2008 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies. To see a complete list of finalists, click here.

 

Over the last decade or so, I have contributed articles to a number of reference volumes; some selected examples follow:

"The Rhodora." Masterplots II: Poetry Series. Rev. ed. Ed. Philip K. Jason. Pasadena: Salem, 2002. 3232-34.

"Bellow, Saul." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Stephen Meyer. Detroit: St. James, 2002. 25-27.

"Mila 18: Novel by Leon Uris." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Stephen Meyer. Detroit: St. James, 2002. 509-10.

"Mr. Sammler's Planet: Novel by Saul Bellow." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Stephen Meyer. Detroit: St. James, 2002. 511-12.

"Uris, Leon." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Stephen Meyer. Detroit: St. James, 2002. 325-26.

"Bellow, Saul." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 77-79.

"Sendak, Maurice." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 511-13.

"Uris, Leon." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 587-88.

 

Juno Tuerk Taken by Richard Tuerk in Commerce, Texas June 2002 Most people love their dogs--but for Tiger I had an affection far more ardent than common; and never, certainly, did any creature more truly deserve it. (Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 1838) Note: Tiger is a Newfoundland dog; Juno is a Labrador mix.

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