Staff in the Department of French
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Dr Jane Walling, MA, DPhil Oxon
Teaching Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43444
Research Groups
- Visual and Performance
Research Interests
- C19th and C20th French literature (especially prose fiction) and thought
- Comparative literature
Selected Publications
Books: sections
- 2000 'Beckett and Religion', in BUNING, Marius, ENGELBERTS, Matthijs & KOSTERS, Onno (eds.), Beckett and Religion/Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics, Rodopi, pp. 105-118
- 1998 'Barbarie ou humanisme?: A French View of German Environmentalism', in Thomas, Neil E & Le Saux, Françoise (eds.), Unity and Difference in European Cultures, Durham Modern Language Series.
- 1996 ''Why duplicate this particular solace?': Beckett's Self-Translations', in Harris, T. Geoffrey (ed.), On Translating French Literature and Film, Rodopi.
Essays in edited volumes
- 2007 ''Les Enfants d'abord': Home and Alternative Schooling in Contemporary France', in Barnet, Marie-Claire. & Welch, Edward. (eds.), Affaires de famille: The Family in Contemporary French Culture and Theory, Rodopi, pp. 189-204
- 2004 'The Use and Abuse of Art: Walser's Alfred Dorn and Proust's Charles Swann', in Parkes, Stuart. & Wefelmeyer, Fritz. (eds.), Seelenarbeit an Deutschland: Martin Walser in Perspective, Rodopi, pp. 181-193
- 2001 'Reading (in) Proust: With the Senses, beyond the Senses', in Syrotinski, Michael. & Maclachlan, Ian. (eds.), Sensual Reading: New Approaches to Reading in its Relations to the Senses, Bucknell University Press, pp. 271-291
Journal papers: academic
- 2005 'The Imagination of Plants: Botany in the Work of Rousseau and Goethe', Comparative Critical Studies 2, pp. 211-225
- 1996 'Repression and Denial: The Absent Childhood Self in Sartre's Les Mots', Romance Studies 27, pp. 49-61
