Publications
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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.