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 2-3, 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.

PhD supervision

• Zahra Alizadeh

Selected publications

• La crise de la virilité et le vers brisé chez Leconte de Lisle

  Evans, D. E., 2025, L'incorrection en poésie. Locatelli, F., Schellino, A. & Lucioni, M. (eds.). Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle

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

• When the dead speak in verse: collective writing and hauntological rhythms at Victor Hugo's Jersey séances

  Evans, D. E., 2025, In: Modern Language Review.

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

• Auguste de Châtillon, Jules Forni, Charles Coran

  Evans, D. E., 23 Oct 2024, Le Parnasse contemporain: recueil de vers nouveaux (1866). Scepi, H. & Whidden, S. (eds.). Paris: Editions Classiques Garnier, (Bibliothèque du xixe siècle; no. 114).

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

• Leveque, James P. Words Like Fire: Prophecy and Apocalypse in Apollinaire, Marinetti and Pound

  Evans, D., 23 Jul 2024, In: Forum for Modern Language Studies. 60, 2, p. 285-286 2 p.

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

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

  Evans, D. E., 22 Mar 2023, In: Revue Verlaine. 20, p. 47-68 13 p.

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

• 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

• Open access

  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 Taylor & Francis Group

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

• 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 afterlives of Verlaine's 'La lune blanche' in song

  Evans, D. E., 20 May 2021, Song beyond the nation: translation, transnationalism, performance. Bullock, P. R. & Turnbull, L. (eds.). Oxford: OUP/British Academy, p. 150-169 16 p. (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., 1 Jul 2021, In: Nottingham French Studies. 60, 2, p. 147-158 12 p.

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

 

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