Dr David Evans

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Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3665

Email

dee3@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 310

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

Monday 11-12, Wednesday 10-11

 

Research areas

I work on French poetry from the C19th onwards, with a particular interest in questions of rhythm and form. I look at how aesthetic value is constructed, and how the idea of poetry in France evolves from Romanticism to the present day. I have a twofold interest in music: firstly, how poets use musical metaphors to articulate their poetics, and secondly, how composers respond to those aesthetic reflections when setting the poems to music. I also work on ecocritical approaches to literature, poetic expression from the regions of France, and literary representations of masculinity.

Selected publications

• Baudelaire as a girl: writing through problematic legacies in Lisa Robertson's The Baudelaire Fractal

  Evans, D. E., 1 Oct 2022, In: Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 51, 1-2, p. 68-89 22 p.

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

• Formal innovations and the idea of music in French poetry, 1850-1900

  Evans, D. E., 27 May 2022, Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. Durkin, R., Dayan, P., Englund, A. & Clausius, K. (eds.). London: Routledge

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

• Histoires de cul et du maître 'invaincu': pornographie, parodie ... et Victor Hugo dans les vers érotiques de Verlaine

  Evans, D. E., 1 Dec 2022, In: Revue Verlaine. 20, p. 47-68 13 p.

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

• KOHL, KATRIN. Modern Languages: Why It Matters

  Evans, D., Jul 2022, In: Forum for Modern Language Studies. 58, 3, p. 407-408 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• French impressions: the transnational fate of Verlaine's 'La Lune Blanche' in song

  Evans, D. E., 20 May 2021, Song Beyond The Nation: Translation, Transnationalism, Performance. Bullock, P. & Turnbull, L. (eds.). OUP/British Academy, p. 150-69 (Proceedings of the British Academy; vol. 236).

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

• Open access

  Introduction: New dialogues with Breton literature and culture

  Evans, D. E. & Williams, H., Jul 2021, In: Nottingham French Studies. 60, 2, p. 147-158

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

• Open access

  Myths of authenticity and cultural performance: Breton identity in the poetry anthology 1839-2000

  Evans, D. E., Jul 2021, In: Nottingham French Studies. 60, 2, p. 159-174

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

• Open access

  Rhythm across borders: free verse between cosmopolitanism and statelessness in Valery Larbaud's Les Poésies de A. O. Barnabooth

  Evans, D. E., 31 Oct 2019, In: Modern Languages Open. 2019, 1, p. 1-16 8.

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

• Open access

  Towards an ecopoetics of French free verse: Marie Krysinska's Rythmes pittoresques

  Evans, D. E., 2017, French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century. Finch-Race, D. & Posthumus, S. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, p. 115-134 19 p. (Studies in literature, culture, and the environment; vol. 1).

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

• Open access

  Malfunctioning music and the art of noise: the prepared pianos of Jules Laforgue

  Evans, D., 8 Mar 2016, In: Dix-Neuf. 20, 1, p. 45-65 21 p.

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

 

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