Dr David Evans, Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
dee3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463665
Office: Buchanan 310
Research and Teaching
I am currently working on a monograph entitled Music, Memory and Mechanism: The Poetic Theory and Practice of Théodore de Banville, examining the crucial contribution made by Banville to nineteenth-century French musico-poetics. I am also looking at Debussy’s song settings of Banville’s poems, examining the ways in which music and poetry interacted in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, and I am preparing a special issue of the journal Dix-Neuf entitled Théodore de Banville: La Poésie en jeu(x). I teach Honours modules on nineteenth-century literature, culture and society, including ‘Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry’ (FR4078) and ‘Writing the Nineteenth Century’ (FR3076), and the M.Litt. course ‘The Metamorphoses of Orpheus’ (FR5106). I have supervised a Ph.D. on the poetry of Heather Dohollau, a Welsh-born poet living in Brittany and writing in French, and am currently supervising doctoral research on literary representations of regional and national identities in Alsace and Corsica. I would be interested in supervising Ph.D. students on any aspect of French poetic theory from the medieval period to the twenty-first century.
PhD Supervision
Julia Lorber, Claire Pascolini Campbell, Esra Al-Hmoud
Publications
Haunting Presences: Ghosts in French Literature and Culture
Griffiths, K. &
Evans, D. E.
2009
University of Wales Press
.
178 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Pleasure and Pain in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture
Evans, D. E.
& Griffiths, K.
2008
Rodopi
.
286 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Rhythm, Illusion and the Poetic Idea: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé
Evans, D. E.
2004
Rodopi
.
355 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Du plomb dans l’aile… Métaphores aviaires et rythmes brisés dans la poésie française de Hugo à Mallarmé
Evans, D. E.
2009
In:
Notre animal intérieur et les théories de la créativité: études.
Sibona, B. (ed.).
L'Harmattan
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Jules Laforgue (1860-1887)
Evans, D. E.
2008
In:
The Literary Encyclopedia.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Le tombeau de la poésie: strategies of textual resurrection in Mallarmé and Banville
Evans, D. E.
2007
In:
Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture.
Harkness, N., Downing, L., Stephens, S. & Unwin, T. (eds.).
Rodopi
,
p. 260.
260 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Baudelaire, lesbian poet? A place for women in
Les Fleurs du Mal
Evans, D. E.
2007
In:
Lesbian inscriptions in Francophone society and culture.
Gunther, R. & Michallat, W. (eds.).
University of Durham
,
p. 7-27.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Structure et suicide dans les
Poésies
de Michel Houellebecq
Evans, D. E.
2007
In:
Michel Houellebecq sous la loupe.
Clement, M. L. & Wesemael, S. . (eds.).
Rodopi
,
p. 201-214.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
'Et il y a un autre monde': reconstructions formelles dans les
Poésies
de Michel Houellebecq
Evans, D. E.
2006
In:
Le Monde de Houellebecq.
Bowd, G. (ed.).
University of Glasgow French and German Publications
,
p. 21-39.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Théodore de Banville entre parodie et autoparodie: des
Odes funambulesques
aux
Exilés
Evans, D. E.
2006
In:
Poetiques de la parodie et du pastiche de 1850 a nos jours.
Dousteyssier-Khoze, C. & Place-Verghnes, F. (eds.).
Peter Lang
,
p. 135-147.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Baudelaire and Irresolvable Poetic Tension
Evans, D. E.
2003
In:
Visions / Revisions: Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Culture.
Harkness, N., Rowe, P., Unwin, T. & Yee, J. (eds.).
Peter Lang Publishing
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Communication Breakdown: Playing Pierrots with Debussy and Banville, or The Trouble With Serenades
Evans, D. E.
2012
In :
Journal of the American Musicological Society
.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
La Poesie en jeu(x): Theoville de Bandore sur la corde raide de la rime
Evans, D. E.
Oct-2010
In :
Dix-Neuf
.
14
,
2
,
p. 167-184.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Petite histoire des etudes banvilliennes de Baudelaire et Mallarme jusqu'a nos jours
Evans, D. E.
Oct-2010
In :
Dix-Neuf
.
14
,
2
,
p. 59-82.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Creating the Island Imaginary: Corsican Poetry in French (1870–1960)
Evans, D. E.
2010
In :
Modern & Contemporary France
.
18
,
1
,
p. 67-91.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Music writing literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida
Evans, D.
Jan-2008
In :
Modern Language Review
.
103
,
p. 241-241.
1 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Patrice de la Tour du Pin: La 'quete de joie' at the heart of "a sum of poetry" - Conference proceedings from College de France, 25-26 september 2003
Evans, D.
Jan-2008
In :
French Studies
.
62
,
p. 102-103.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Stephane mallarme documents
Evans, D.
Jul-2007
In :
Modern Language Review
.
102
,
p. 855-856.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
'Grotesque figures': Baudelaire, Rousseau and the aesthetics of modernity.
Evans, D.
Apr-2007
In :
French Studies
.
61
,
p. 232-233.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Music and poetry at the crossroads: Baudelaire, Debussy and 'Recueillement'
Abbott, H. &
Evans, D. E.
Apr-2007
In :
Dix-Neuf
.
8
,
1
,
p. 18-37.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Letters to Jose-Maria de Heredia.
Evans, D.
Oct-2006
In :
French Studies
.
60
,
p. 526-527.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
SYNTHESIS OF FLUORINATED CARBOCYCLIC NUCLEOSIDES - PREPARATION OF (+/-)-CARBOCYCLIC-FMAU AND SOME CONGENERS
BIGGADIKE, K. , BORTHWICK, A. D. ,
EVANS, D.
, EXALL, A. M. , KIRK, B. E. , ROBERTS, S. M. , STEPHENSON, L. , YOUDS, P. ,
SLAWIN, A. M. Z.
& WILLIAMS, D. J.
15-Feb-1987
In :
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
.
4
,
p. 251-254.
4 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
The Nineteenth Century (Post-Romantic)
Evans, D. E.
& Lynch, M.
2007
In :
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
.
69
,
p. 176-193.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Scientific review
Theodore de Banville: jeux mythologiques, parodiques et poetiques
Evans, D. E. (ed.)
Jan-2010
In :
Dix-Neuf
.
14
,
2
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Special issue
Le voile se dechire: vers le poeme en prose baudelairien
Evans, D. E.
2007
Research output
:
Other contribution
'Jules Laforgue' and 'Francis Vielé-Griffin'
Evans, D. E.
& Marshall, B. (ed.)
2005
ABC-CLIO
Research output
:
Other contribution
Arachnofiles, a journal of European Languages and Cultures
Evans, D. E.
2001
Research output
:
Other contribution