Roger Laporte: The Orphic Text
Ian Maclachlan
Legenda (General Series) •1 November 2000
- ‘Maclachlan admirably pulls off the difficult task of maintaining a just tension between the demands of critical exegesis and the demands of the work itself... succeeds in opening a space for their reading and indicating the importance of this reading.’ — Patrick ffrench, French Studies LVI.3, 2002, 432-3
- Elisa Bricco, Studi francesi XLVI, 2002, 2
The Backward Look: Memory and the Writing Self in France 1580-1920
Angelica Goodden
Legenda (General Series) •1 July 2000
- ‘Reads like an essay by Montaigne... an ambitious and thought-provoking study.’ — Michéle Bissiére, French Review 76.3, 2003, 592-3
- ‘It is salutary to read a thoughtful, level-headed and well-informed account of the representation of the self in French writing... there is no doubting the depth, range and persuasiveness of the thesis advanced.’ — Anthony Strugnell, French Studies LVII.3, 2003, 428-30