Publications
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Voltaire's Disciple
(1972)
Although events in La Harpe's life led him to become a friend of the Catholic revival during which Chateaubriand, to name only one, was pleased to have his support, he is rightly best remembered as a disciple of Voltaire ...
Verse Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Vladimir Maiakovskii
(1989)
Maiakovskii himself said that a rhythmical 'rumble' was the basis of his verse, and demonstrated the actual generation of his verse from the bare rhythmical gul through intermediate versions to its final verbal form. In ...
A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev (1900-1909)
(1990)
This book applies the techniques of semiotic analysis to a selection of short stories by Leonid Andreev in an attempt to offer one answer to the problems of categorizing Andreev’s unique art and placing it within a ...
The Ethics of Narration
(1989)
Colin Riordan finds the key to Uwe Johnson's puzzling works in an idiosyncratic moral code to which both Johnson and his narrative figures adhere. This code underlies the development in Johnson's prose from his first novel ...
A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662)
(1991)
Credited on its first title page to William Shakespeare and William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin continues to provoke speculation about its place in the Shakespeare ‘Apocrypha’. The play is an imaginative re-working of the ...
Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil
(1990)
This book undertakes a comparative reassessment of psychosexual concerns in the works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil. The two authors, so different in other respects, are shown to converge in their coordinated treatment ...
The Problem of Christ in the Work of Friedrich Hölderlin
(1991)
This study sets out to challenge the usual approach to the question of Hölderlin’s response to Christ, which focuses on no more than two or three late hymns, by tracing, through each major stage of Hölderlin’s work, a ...
Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works of Adalbert Stifter
(1991)
Brigid Haines focuses on the crucial interplay between dialogue and narrative in Adalbert Stifter’s works and relates this to their overall structure. Stifter, a conservative and often didactic writer, is nevertheless shown ...
The Art Criticism of Francis Ponge
(1994)
This study of Francis Ponge’s essays on contemporary artists (L’Atelier contemporain) attempts to broaden the popular view of the author as a ‘poet of objects’. It explores Ponge’s perception of art criticism as an inherently ...
History, Fiction, Verisimilitude
(1993)
This study of Gottfried von Strassburg discusses the narrative technique of his romance Tristan (c. 1210) against the double background of Latin rhetoric and poetics on the one hand, and the developing written vernacular ...
Sartre's Theory of Literature
(1979)
As an imaginative writer Sartre is fascinated by the role of imagination in the creative process. Moreover his critical, psychological and philosophical writings witness to a constant meditation on the function and status ...
Language and Style in a Renaissance Epic
(1982)
When, a generation later, Francesco Berni rewrote Boiardo's incomplete epic Orlando Innamorato, his contemporaries were not all convinced, and some considered it a usurpation. But Berni's aim was to modernise the text, ...
Epic and Chronicle
(1983)
The Poema de mio Cid is one of the oldest extant literary works in Castilian, and the most complete epic poem of the Spanish medieval period now known to us in a form close to that in which it was originally written, perhaps ...
The Realism of Luigi Capuana
(1979)
Despite a remote rural birth, in a small Sicilian town still not easily accessible, Capuana was to become a figure truly representative of Italian culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. He observed Garibaldi's ...
Matthew Arnold and Goethe
(1979)
Writing to Cardinal Newman in 1872, Arnold said that there are four people, 'in especial', from whom he had learned habits: Goethe, Wordsworth, Saint-Beuve, and Newman himself. His notebooks and reading lists confirm a ...
The Teaching of Gasparino Barzizza
(1979)
A study of the Italian humanist Gasparino Barzizza, or Gasparinus de Bergamo, a grammarian lecturing on Seneca, Cicero, Virgil and Terence, among others, in early fifteenth-century Padua. Mercer draws on literary sources ...
Georg Büchner's 'Dantons Tod'
(1982)
Büchner's turbulent drama Dantons Tod presents problems of characterisation on a different order of magnitude from those of the works which followed, not least because it was Büchner's first play, and a very ambitious one. ...
Jean Brisebarre: 'Li Restor du Paon'
(1980)
This is a critical edition of the Restor du Paon, a poem attributed to Jean Brisebarre which was composed some time before 1338, though its exact date is uncertain. This book, originally published in paperback in 1980 under ...
Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language
(1987)
Claude Favre de Vaugelas, born in Savoy in 1585 and one of the founder members of the French Academy, is best known for his Remarques sur la langue française (1647) in which he sets out good usage of French. In this study, ...
Symbolist Landscapes. The Place of Painting in the Poetry and Criticism of Mallarmé and His Circle
(1989)
This study has two main aims. The first is to inform about approaches to painting among the poets and critics who, during the years 1885-95, were associated with the French Symbolist movement. The second is to examine the ...