Christopher Collins is professor emeritus of English at New York University. His many books includePaleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination (Columbia, 2013);Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse(1996);The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination (1991); and Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia (1991). |