Publications
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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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...