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The Unmediated Vision: An Interpretation of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke, and Valéry (1954) •
André Malraux (1960) • ''Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814'' (1964) •
Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970 (1970) •
The Fate of Reading and Other Essays (1975) • ''Akiba's Children'' (1978) •
Psychoanalysis and the Question of the Text: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1976-77 (1978, editor) •
Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (1980) •
Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy (1981) •
Easy Pieces (1985) •
Midrash and Literature (1986, editor) •
Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective (1986, editor) •
The Unremarkable Wordsworth (1987) •
Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars (1991) •
The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (1996) •
The Fateful Question of Culture (1997) • ''A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998'' (1999) •
Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (2004) • ''A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe'' (2007) ==See also==