On Things Ancient
Patterns of Perception in Aeschylus (Cabinet of the Muses: essays on classical and comparative literature in honor of Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, edited by Mark Griffith and Donald J. Mastronarde (Atlanta 1990) 31-56.)
The Seductions of Gorgias Classical Antiquity, 12:2 (1993)
Sounds You Cannot Hear (in French, on Cicero, Philodemus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Longinus [from Clara Auvray-Assayas and Daniel Delattre, eds., Cicéron et Philodème: La polémique en philosophie. 2001, 315-41.])
Nausiphanes of Teos ("the last named Democritean, from Cronache Ercolanesi 2002)
Lucretius and the Poetics of Void (from Le Jardin Romain, ed. A. Monet, Lille, 2002) [self-explanatory]
Epicurean Attachments (from Cronache Ercolanesi 2003) [what connects life, pleasure, beauty, friendship, and divinity? Epicurus replies.]
Love of Life: Lucretius to Freud from Erotikon, ed. Shadi Bartsch and Thomas Bartscherer, Chicago 2005.
Vergil's Voids (from Before Subjectivity? Lacan and the Classics, ed. JIP and Mark Buchan, Helios 2004.)
Introduction to Before Subjectivity? Lacan and the Classics.
Lasus of Hermione, Pindar and the Riddle of S (Classical Quarterly, 2007)
Reception Studies: Future Prospects (from L. Hardwick, C. Stray, eds. A Companion to Classical Receptions. Blackwell Press. 2007)
Saussure and Derrida on the Figure of the Voice, MLN 1986.
Reading Representation in Franz Grillparzer's Der arme Spielmann, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift (1981) (my Erstlingswerk, written as a spoof on critical theory/style (really!; check out, inter alia, the first Teutonic footnote); rpt. with corrections in Franz Grillparzer’s Der arme Spielmann: New Critical Directions, ed. Clifford Albrecht Bernd (Camden House, 1988).