publications

Dr David Miller

Books

(Authored)

With Poetry and Philosophy: Four Dialogic Studies-—Wordsworth, Browning, Hopkins, and Hardy (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).

(Edited Books)

Literature, Philosophy, and National Identity, ed. with Dr Lucia Aiello, Journal of Philosophical Studies (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1-2 2004).

Articles in Journals and Essays in Collections

“The Arbitrary and the Absolute: The Fall into Meaning after Paradise Lost”, Imaginaires, Order and Chaos (EPURE-Editions et Presses Universitaires de Reims, Vol. 12, 2008).

“Adorno and Lukács: Some Co-ordinates for the Scottish Literary Tradition,” in G. Carruthers, D. Goldie, A. Renfrew (eds), Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2004), 133-150.

“Versions of Literary Neo-Pragmatism,” Il Cannocchiale, Journal of Philosophical Studies (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1-2 2004), 43-53.

“The Prosaic Sublime: Wordsworth’s Essays upon Epitaphs and Kant’s Critiques”, in Anna Maria Sportelli (ed.), Aesthetics, Philosophy and Politics, Journal of Romantic Studies (Napoli: Liguori Editore, 10, 2003), 27-39.

“Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision”, Review article, Il Cannocchiale, Journal of Philosophical Studies (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2 2003), 163-69.

“Sign, Symbol and Image in Bakhtin”, Il Cannocchiale, Journal of Philosophical Studies (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2 2002), 99-119

Forthcoming and Work in Preparation

“Allegories of Absent Gods: Ernst Bloch’s Principle of Hope as Utopian Literature” is forthcoming with Duke University Press’ SIC series, edited by Slavoj Zizek and Peter Thomson, Bloch Centre, University of Sheffield. Contributors will include Slavoj Zizek, Juergen Moltmann, Jan Robert Bloch, Roland Boer, Tom Nairn, Philip Goodchild, and others. This will appear in 2009 to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Bloch's Das Prinzip Hoffnung.

'Modern Poetry', invited contribution to Modernism: A Critical Dictionary, ed. Olga Taxidou, Jane Goldman, and Vassiliki Kolocotroni (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), is forthcoming.

I am currently editing and preparing a collection, Melancholy, Modernity and Literature. The book will include studies on the relationship of melancholy, modernity, and nineteenth century and Modernist English literature. Contributors are: Lucia Aiello, Tim Armstrong, Guinn Batten, Jahan Ramazani, David G. Riede, Jeremy Tambling, Marion Thain, Olga Taxidou, and William Watkin. The expected publication date is 2010 with Palgrave Macmillan.

A second book manuscript, Seedless Fruit: The Fates of Pastoral in Swinburne, Hopkins, Browning and Hardy, is in preparation.