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 ...