Numinous spaces in British literature from William Wordsworth to Samuel Beckett
Jesus figures in American literature from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Edward Albee
Using Bakhtin's definitions to discover ethical voices in Solzhenitsyn and Tolstoy
René Girard's categories of scapegoats in literature of the American South
Hopkins's metaphysics of nature as sacred disclosure
The Book of Job as mirrored in Hopkins's metaphysics
Beckett's mythos of the absence of God.