classic 1959 work, Life Against Death. The book's fame grew when Norman Podhoretz recommended it to Lionel Trilling. In May 1960 Brown, who was then teaching at Wesleyan University, delivered a Phi Beta Kappa Address to Columbia University. Love's Body, published in 1966, examines "the role of erotic love in human history, describing a struggle between eroticism and civilization." In the late 1960s, following a stay at the University of Rochester, Brown moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, as professor of humanities, teaching in the History of Consciousness and Literature departments. He was a highly popular professor, known to friends and students alike as "Nobby". The range of courses he taught, while broadly focused around the themes of poetics, mythology, and psychoanalysis, included classes on Finnegans Wake, Islam, and, with Schorske, Goethe's Faust. Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis, published in 1991, is an anthology that includes many of Brown's later writings. In The Challenge of Islam, a collection of lectures given in 1981 and published in 2009, Brown argues that Islam challenges us to make life a work of art. Drawing on Henri Corbin's The Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi, he argues that "Muhammad is the bridge between Christ and Dante and Blake." Influence on Ernest Becker The Denial of Death is a 1973 work of psychology and philosophy by Ernest Becker, in which the author builds on the works of Brown, Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, and Otto Rank. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1974. See also Freudo-Marxism Books 1947. Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1953. Hesiod, Theogony. Translated and with an introduction by Norman O. Brown. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. 1959. Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. 1966. Love's Body. New York: Random House. 1973. Closing Time. New York: Random House. 1991. Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2009. The Challenge of Islam: The Prophetic Tradition. Ed. by Jerome Neu. Santa Cruz, California: New Pacific Press. References Further reading In Memoriam: Norman O. Brown, ed. by Jerome Neu, New Pacific Press, 2007 David Greenham, The Resurrection of the Body: The Work of Norman O. Brown, Lexington Books, 2006 Dale Pendell, Walking with Nobby: Conversations with Norman O. Brown, Mercury House, 2008 John Dizikes and Andrew Orlans, "Remembering Nobby: John Dizikes' Reminiscences", March 2007, transcript published 2012