Faculty Directory
Richard Kane
Associate Professor
Contact:
Penn State Mont Alto
Office Phone:
717-749-6224
rck1@psu.edu
Brief Bio:
Educational History:
Ph.D., M.A. Temple University
A.B. Villanova University
Research Interests:
Literature; writing; humanities (major areas: modern British and American literature; short fiction)
Awards:
Nominated for Penn State All-University Excellence in Advising Award,1998
Major Publications:
Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, and John Fowles: Didactic Demons in Modern Fiction (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988)
Other Publications:
"Earth, Water, and Fire: Elemental Representations of Feminist Force in Stories by John Cheever, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Tobias Wolff." Journal of the Short Story in English, Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle. 42. (Spring 2004): pp. 111-134 (joint European and American publication).
"The Satanic and the Moral in Muriel Spark." Negative Capability, XIV, No.3. (1995): pp. 213-225.
"A Contemporary Anomaly: Bruce Chatwin's Pastoral Novel, On the Black Hill." Arkansas Review. (Fall 1994): pp.168-192.
"Ceremony as Camouflage: Form and Ritual in the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood." The Journal of Ritual Studies. 8.(Winter 1994): pp. 27-52.
"Didactic Demons in Contemporary British Fiction." The University of Mississippi Studies in English. New Series VIII. (1990): pp. 36-57.
"From Loins of Darkness to Loins of Pork: Body Imagery in Lawrence, Eliot, and Joyce." Recovering Literature: A Journal of Contextualist Criticism. 17.(Summer 1990): pp. 5-18.
Review of Iris Murdoch. (Modern Critical Views) edited by Harold Bloom. South Atlantic Review. LIV, No. 3.(September 1989): pp.155-158.
"Positive Destruction in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor." The Southern Literary Journal. XX, No. 1. (Fall 1987): pp. 45-60.
"Bergsonian Comic Theory and Crotchet Castle." Pennsylvania English. 12, No.2. (Spring 1986): pp. 39-43.
"The European-American Conflict in Of Time and The River: A Question of Form." The Thomas Wolfe Review. 9, No. 1. (Spring 1985): pp. 18-23.
National Professional Service:
Membership in:
Modern Language Association (MLA)
The Iris Murdoch Society
The Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Referee/Reader for articles submitted to various scholarly journals, such as:
Studies in the Novel
Mosaic
South Atlantic Review
Comparative Literature Studies
Writing Consultant, QAL Associates www.qal1.com
