Dr David Gascoigne, Honorary Lecturer
Contact details
Research interests
David Gascoigne's research has centred on contemporary French fiction. He has published books on Michel Tournier (Oxford/Washington D.C.: Berg, 1996), and on Georges Perec (The Games of Fiction: Georges Perec and Modern French Ludic Narrative, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006) in addition to articles on a wide range of contemporary French writers of fiction. He is currently researching aspects of the novels of Marie Nimier. He was made a Chevalier des Palmes académiques by the French government in 2008, and a Festschrift to mark his retirement was published in 2011 (Narratives of French Modernity, ed. L. Milne and M. Orr, Peter Lang, 2011).
Publications
Violent Histories: violence, culture and identity in France from surrealism to the néo-polar
Gascoigne, D. J.
2007
Peter Lang
.
207 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
The Games of Fiction: Georges Perec and modern French ludic narrative
Gascoigne, D. J.
2006
Peter Lang
.
327 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
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Book
Le Mot et ses espaces
Gascoigne, D. J.
1997
Presses Universitaires de Caen
.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Michel Tournier (New Directions in European Writing)
Gascoigne, D. J.
1996
Berg
.
Research output
:
Book/Report
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Book
Paratext Rules OK
Gascoigne, D. J.
2011
In:
Masking Strategies: Unwrapping the French Paratext.
Rolls, A. & Vuaille-Barcan, M-L. (eds.). Oxford:
Peter Lang
,
p. 13-26.
14 p.
(Modern French Identities).
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Amélie Nothomb and the Poetics of Excess
Gascoigne, D. J.
2003
In:
Amelie Nothomb: Authorship, Identity and Narrative Practice.
Bainbrigge, S. & den Toonder, J. (eds.).
Peter Lang
,
p. 127-134.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Le souffle de l'autorité: à propos du Vent Paraclet de Michel Tournier.
Gascoigne, D. J.
1999
In:
Voix, Traces, Avènement: L'Ecriture et son sujet (actes du colloque de Cerisy-la Salle).
Gifford, P. & Goulet, A. (eds.).
Presses Universitaires de Caen
,
p. 99 - 115.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Dreaming the Self, Writing the Dream: the subject in the dream narratives of Georges Perec.
Gascoigne, D. J.
1999
In:
Subject Matters: subject and self in French literature from Descartes to the present.
Gifford, P. & Gratton, J. (eds.).
Rodopi
,
p. 128-144.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Boomboom and Hullabaloo: Rhythm in the Zurich Dada Revolution
Gascoigne, D. J.
2010
In :
Paragraph
.
33
,
2
,
p. 197-214.
18 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Article
Michel Tournier and the metaphor of fiction
Gascoigne, D.
Jan-2004
In :
Modern Language Review
.
99
,
p. 208-209.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Elucidating Uncertainties : Michel Rio and the Science of Fiction
Gascoigne, D. J.
Apr-2002
In :
Nottingham French Studies
.
41
,
1
,
p. 19-27.
9 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Article
Le jeu des métalepses de Perec
Gascoigne, D. J.
, Ribiere, M. & Goga, Y.
2006
p. 25-35.
Research output
:
Contribution to conference
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Paper
Pascal Bruckner
Gascoigne, D. J.
2-Jul-2010
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Non-textual form
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Web publication/site
Michel Tournier: de l'Histoire à la transcendance
Gascoigne, D. J.
2005
Research output
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Other contribution
Un récit d'enfance et ses stratégies :
Les Lieux d'une fugue
de Georges Perec
Gascoigne, D. J.
, Chevalier, A. (ed.) & Dornier, C. (ed.)
2002
Research output
:
Other contribution
Le vide mode d'emploi : quelques remarques sur la poétique de l'absence dans
La Vie mode d'emploi de Georges Perec
Gascoigne, D. J.
, Guellouz, S. (ed.) & Chamarat-Malandain, G. (ed.)
2002
Research output
:
Other contribution
Le complexe de l'étoile : fantasme et identité chez Patrick Modiano et Philip Roth
Gascoigne, D. J.
, Cabioc'h, S. (ed.) & Masson, P. (ed.)
2002
Research output
:
Other contribution