Dr Robin MacKenzie, Honorary Lecturer
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Research and Teaching
Robin MacKenzie specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction. He started academic life as a Proustian, publishing a monograph and a number of articles on various aspects of Proust’s writing, and has also written on Mérimée, Fromentin and Gracq. He has a long-standing interest in comparative literature and is currently Treasurer of the British Comparative Literature Association. He has taught widely across the spectrum of French language, literature and culture in three British universities. For several years he has been a member of the editorial team of Forum for Modern Language Studies and is currently the journal’s Administrative Editor.
Publications
The Unconscious in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2000
Oxford and Berne:
Peter Lang
.
270 p.
(Modern French Identities).
Research output
:
Book/Report
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Book
The Rhetoric of the Border in Julien Gracq's 'Le Rivage des Syrtes'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2011
In:
Narratives of French Modernity.
Milne, L. & Orr, M. (eds.). Berne:
Peter Lang
,
p. 107-122.
16 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Marcel Proust
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2003
In:
Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism.
Poplawski, P. (ed.). Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press
,
p. 324-330.
7 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Hitting the Mine: Modulations in Narrative Voice in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
1997
In:
Narrative Voices in Modern French Fiction.
Cardy, M., Evans, G. & Jacobs, G. (eds.). Cardiff:
University of Wales Press
,
p. 165-182.
18 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Interlopers in an Imaginary World?: Historical Referents in Julien Gracq's 'Le Rivage des Syrtes'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
Oct-2012
In :
Comparative Critical Studies
.
9
,
online supplement
,
p. 57-66.
10 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Centre and Periphery in Lawrence Norfolk's 'The Pope's Rhinoceros' and Christoph Ransmayr's 'Die letzte Welt'.
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2012
In :
ORBIS LITTERARUM
.
67
,
5
,
p. 416-36.
21 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Article
Maturity and Modernity in Fromentin's 'Dominique'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2007
In :
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
.
35
,
2
,
p. 352-366.
15 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Article
Art for Art's Sake? Literature and Exchange in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2004
In :
New Comparison. A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies
.
35-36
,
p. 229-241.
13 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Article
Proustian Doubles: Patterns of Duality and Multiplicity in 'A la recherche du temps perdu'.
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2002
In :
Forum for Modern Language Studies
.
38
,
p. 291-301.
11 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Space, Self and the Role of the 'Matecznik' in Mérimée's 'Lokis'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2000
In :
Forum for Modern Language Studies
.
36
,
p. 196-208.
13 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Article
'Calembour, 'Cuir' and 'Corps bon conducteur': towards a Proustian Poetics of Word-Play
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2000
In :
Nottingham French Studies
.
39
,
p. 193-202.
10 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Article
Intoxication and Metaphor: the Role of Rivebelle in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2000
In :
Dalhousie French Studies
.
51
,
p. 58-69.
12 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Article
'Marcel aux Enfers': Modulations of a Motif in Proust's 'A la recherche'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
1997
In :
Australian Journal of French Studies
.
34
,
p. 202-215.
14 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Avatars of Rome: Centre and Periphery in 'The Pope's Rhinoceros' and 'Die letzte Welt'
MacKenzie, R. M. J.
2009
Research output
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Contribution to conference
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Paper