Prof Paul Gifford

ModLang Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

ppg@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Modern literature and ideas, particularly in relation to the changing scientific, philosophic, religious and cultural context of the period 1870-1945. He is the author of critical studies in French and English of the poet and thinker Paul Valiry, has edited collections of essays on the problems of personal identity (self and subject) and collective identity, and written books on the problems of love and desire in twentieth-century French writing

Selected publications

• La création en acte. Devenir de la critique génétique

  Gifford, P. P. D. & Schmid, M., 2007, Rodopi. 309 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• La fulgurance de 1913 et "l'embryon fécondé" de la Jeune Parque

  Gifford, P. P. D., 2006, Paul Valery 11, "La Jeune Parque", des brouillons au poeme, nouvelles lectures genetiques. Haffner, F., Hontebeyrie, M. & Pickering, R. (eds.). Lettres Modernes Minard, p. 75-98

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 'Ce poeme que je n'ai pas pu faire'. L'hermeneutique d'une emergence, 1910-1913

  Gifford, P. P. D., 2005, Les Cahiers 1894-1914 de Paul Valery en edition integrale. Historique, enjeux, avenir. Centre de Recheche sur les lettres modernes et contemporaines, Clermont-Ferrand, p. 97-112

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Love , Desire and Transcendence in French Literature: Deciphering Eros

  Gifford, P. P. D., 2005, Ashgate. 345 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The birth of modern criticism: Literature according to Eliot and Valery

  Gifford, P., Jul 2004, In: Modern Language Review. 99, p. 856-857 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 2000 Years and Beyond: Faith, Identity and the Common Era

  Gifford, P. P. D. (Editor), Archard, D. W. (Editor), Hart, T. A. (Editor) & Rapport, N. J. (Editor), 2003, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 227 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Paul Valery a tous les points de vue. Hommage a Judith Robinson-Valery

  Gifford, P. P. D., Pickering, R. & Schmidt-Radefeldt, J., 2003

  Research output: Other contribution

• 'Souviens-toi de toi-meme' - memoire, mythe et creation dans 'La Jeune Parque' de Valery

  Gifford, P. P. D., 2002, Modeles, dialogues et invention. Melanges offerts a Anne Chevalier. Guellouz, S. & Chamarat-Malandain, G. (eds.). Presses universitaires de Caen

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• La Parque Ouroboros

  Gifford, P. P. D., Jan 2002, In: Bulletin des etudes valeryennes.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Paul Valery - The Poet and the "source of tears"

  Gifford, P. P. D., Nov 2002, In: Essays in French Literature. 39, p. 65-88

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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