A selection of some scholarly and critical articles by Joe Andriano
"Monsters of
the Fantastic: Fusions of the Mythical and the Real." Critical Insights on the
Fantastic. Ed. Claire Whitehead. Ipswich, MA: Salem
Press, 2013
"Moby-Dick in the
21st Century: From Fossil to Rocket." Indiana
English (Spring 2007):19-39.
"Behemyth Evolving: Whale/Ape/Rocket." Trajectories
of
the Fantastic. Ed. Michael Morrison. Westport,
CT & London: Greenwood Press, 1997.
"Brother to Dragons: Race and Evolution in Moby-Dick."
ATQ: 19th Century American Literature & Culture 10.2
(June 1996): 141–53. (Univ. of Rhode Island).
A large
portion of this article has been reprinted in The
Routledge
Literary Source Book on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. (2003)
"The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Gravity's
Rainbow." Modes
of
the Fantastic. Eds. Robert Collins and
Rob Latham. Westport, CT & London:
Greenwood Press, 1995.
"The Handmaid's Tale as Scrabble Game." Essays on
Canadian Writing 48 (Winter 1992–93): 89–96. Reprinted in
Critical Insights: The Handmaid's Tale (Salem Press,
2012): 276-85.
Seven articles for Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. eds.
J.R. LeMaster and Donald Kummings. NY: Garland, 1998.
These are all available online at The Walt Whitman Archive
Six articles for The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, eds.
James D. Wilson and J. R. LeMaster. New York: Garland,
1993. Paperback Edition: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain (2011)
My article on Twain's hilarious essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary
Offenses" has been cited often--even by Wikipedia!
(under "Reception")