Publications
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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 ...