Publications
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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 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 ...
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 ...
Quevedo on Parnassus
(1987)
Quevedo, who for much of his life was a nobleman politically active at court, is now remembered as one of the great writers of the Baroque era. His love poems are among the best regarded from his substantial poetic oeuvre, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...