Publications
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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 ...