Publications
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Quevedo on Parnassus
(1987)
Quevedo, who for much of his life was a nobleman politically active at court, is now remembered as one of the great writers of the Baroque era. His love poems are among the best regarded from his substantial poetic oeuvre, ...
The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval
(1987)
The main aim of this study of the second continuation of the Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes is to establish exactly what it consists of, where it begins and ends, whether it is a single unit — and if not to what extent it ...
The Work and Thought of Jean Grenier (1898-1971)
(1983)
For some, Jean Grenier is an intriguing philosopher and essayist, for others he is primarily the madter of Albert Camus. A prolific writer, he worked as a teacher until his retirement in 1968, holding posts in Egypt and ...
Les Enseignements de Théodore Paléologue
(1983)
Les Enseignemens ou Ordenances pour un Siegneur qui a Guerres et Grans Gouvernemens a Faire, often referred to as Les enseignements, was a military manual by Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (1290-1338). Originally ...
Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht
(1985)
Gonçalves da Silva studies a range of expressionist playwrights who transformed German drama in the twentieth century: from Frank Wedekind, who grew up in a Swiss castle, became an actor and was imprisoned for satirical ...
The Significance of Locality in the Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin
(1979)
Hölderlin's poetic world, seen at its most coherent in the mature poetry of 1800-02, is part classical and Homeric, part allegorical and vague, and part based on the true geography of his beloved homeland, Swabia — his ...
Valentin Rasputin and Soviet Russian Village Prose
(1986)
The city and the village represent two poles of Soviet society and ideology. The city symbolizes the future; the industrial proletariat is the natural ally of the Party. But the village provides a constant reminder of ...
Bertolt Brecht's Adaptations for the Berliner Ensemble
(1975)
It is wrong to see Brecht as the gratuitous literary firebrand and revolutionary iconoclast of the popular image; a feature of his work, from the first to the last plays and theoretical writings, is his concern with a ...
Techniques of Solipsism
(1970)
Theodor Storm, born in 1817, was at first a poet of the bleak North Sea plains, but emerged after the liberal revolutions of 1848 as a major German writer of novellas. Though considered a social realist, Storm also asked ...
The Vorau 'Moses' and 'Balaam'
(1970)
A study of the Vorauer Bücher Moses, a collection of vernacular poems in Early High Middle German from the twelfth-century MS 276. The text, named for the Styrian monastery of Vorau where MS 276 was found, was probably ...
The Early Poetry of Guittone d'Arezzo
(1976)
Guittone d'Arezzo's critical fortunes have risen over the past fifty years to the point where he now commands grudging respect from serious readers of Duecento literature. But his poetry remains lapidary, often wilfully ...
The Theme of Love in the 'Romans d'Antiquité'
(1972)
The group of romans antiques comprises the romans of Thèbes, Eneas, Troie and Alexandre, and the poems of Piramus et Tisbé and Narcisus. These works have two points in common: they all deal with material from Greek or Roman ...
Saint-Amant and the Theory of 'Ut Pictura Poesis'
(1972)
With the renewal of interest in seventeenth-century French baroque poets, a considerable number of studies have been devoted to the poetry of Marc-Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594-1661). Almost without exception these ...
Edition Critique du Sermon 'Qui Manducat Me' de Robert Ciboule (1403-58)
(1971)
An edition in French text. Malgré une vie toute consacrée à la diplomatie et au service de l'Université de Paris, à prêcher et à écrire, Robert Ciboule reste mal connu. A. Combes lui a consacré deux articles importants, ...
Violette Leduc
(1994)
Most analyses of Violette Leduc’s writing have concentrated on its autobiographical dimension, dealing almost exclusively with her best known volume, La Bâtarde. Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language offers readings ...
Spirit of the Totem
(1995)
The book presents an original, interdisciplinary analysis of religious and mythological perspectives in fiction published in the Soviet Union between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s. In doing so, it points to ways in which ...
The Poetics of Mockery
(1995)
The Poetics of Mockery reconsiders Wyndham Lewis’s adversarial role in the modernist movement through a close reading of his prodigious satire of 1920s cultural politics. It presents a new interpretation of The Apes of God ...
Horace’s Epistles, Wieland and the Reader
(1995)
Wieland’s translations of Horace’s Epistles, neglected until recently, demonstrate his skill in overcoming the bipolar relationship implied in the very idea of translation. Thanks to a strong, cosmopolitan fellow-feeling ...
The Twelfth-Century Psalter Commentary in French for Laurette d'Alsace
(1990)
Laurette d'Alsace, daughter of the Comte de Flandre, was married to four members of the northern French aristocracy and finally retreated to the Abbaye de Forest in Brussels. She was to remain there until her death in 1170, ...
Herder and the Philosophy and History of Science
(1970)
This book, originally published in 1970 and later given the ISBN 978-0-900547-06-5, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.