Prof Paul Gifford

ModLang Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

ppg@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Modern literature and ideas, particularly in relation to the changing scientific, philosophic, religious and cultural context of the period 1870-1945. He is the author of critical studies in French and English of the poet and thinker Paul Valiry, has edited collections of essays on the problems of personal identity (self and subject) and collective identity, and written books on the problems of love and desire in twentieth-century French writing

Selected publications

• Archaeology and human origins

  Gifford, P. & Antonello, P., Apr 2026, The Bloomsbury handbook of mimetic theory. Cowdell, S., Hodge, J. & Fleming, C. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury

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

• Evolution and hominization

  Gifford, P., Apr 2026, The Bloomsbury handbook of mimetic theory. Cowdell, S., Hodge, J. & Fleming, C. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury

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

• Footprint in the sand. Tournier’s re-rewriting of Paul Valéry

  Gifford, P., 2011, Narratives of French Modernity: Themes, Forms and Metamorphoses- Essays in Honour of David Gascoigne. Orr, M. & Milne, L. (eds.). Verlag Peter Lang AG, (Modern French Identities; no. 62).

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

• Paul Valéry, Notebooks/Cahiers - 4 & 5

  Valéry, P., Gifford, P. (Editor), Stimpson , B. (Editor), Pickering, R., Rinsler, N. (Editor) & Joseph, R. (Editor), 2010, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Verlag Peter Lang AG.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• À l’heure de l’Europe : les identités culturelles et le rire

  Gifford, P., 2008, Le rire européen . Duncan, A. B. & Chamayou, A. (eds.). Presses universitaires de Perpignan, p. 95-111

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

• Les « lieux de mémoire » de Paul Valéry : une remémoration du passé relue à la lumière de Pierre Nora et de Paul Ricoeur

  Gifford, P., 2008, Paul Valéry. « Regards » sur l’histoire.. Pickering, R. & Hontebeyrie, M. (eds.). Clermont-Ferrand, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, p. 301-313

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

• La création en acte. Devenir de la critique génétique

  Gifford, P. P. D. (Editor) & Schmid, M. (Editor), 2007, Rodopi. 309 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• La fulguration 1913 et l’embryon fécondé de La Jeune Parque

  Gifford, P., 2007, Paul Valéry, La Jeune Parque en question. Lettres Modernes Minard

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

• La fulgurance de 1913 et "l'embryon fécondé" de la Jeune Parque

  Gifford, P. P. D., 2006, Paul Valery 11, "La Jeune Parque", des brouillons au poeme, nouvelles lectures genetiques. Haffner, F., Hontebeyrie, M. & Pickering, R. (eds.). Lettres Modernes Minard, p. 75-98

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

• L’imaginaire de la source-origine

  Gifford, P., 2006, Paul Valery 12, Image, imagination, imaginaire. Kim, S.-T. (ed.). Lettres Modernes Minard, p. 143-156

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

 

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