Woman Earthly and Divine in the Comedy of Dante (University Press of Kentucky, 1975)

Hierarchy and the Structure of Tropes (Indiana University, 1976)

Hieroglyph of Time: The Petrarchan Sestina (University of Minnesota Press, 1980)

The Poetics of Ariosto (Wayne State University Press, 1988)

Figuration in Verbal Art (Princeton University Press, 1988)

De vulgari eloquentia, Dante’s Book of Exile (University of Nebraska Press,1990)

Dante and the Knot of Body and Soul (St. Martin’s Press, 1998)

From the Critic’s Workbench: Essays in Literature and Semiotics (Peter Lang, 2005)

To order these books from Amazon, please use the links at right.