| ROBERT LEWIS SIMS
Professor of
Foreign Languages
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in French with minor in Spanish received July 9,
1973. Title: The Use of Myth in Claude Simon and
Gabriel García Márquez
FIELDS OF
SPECIAL INTEREST
The theory and
function of myth in modern literature, especially the modern French and Latin American
novel, the structuralist study of literary texts, dialogic criticism, reader-response
criticism, narratology, deconstruction and the critical writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, the
image of Christopher Columbus in modern literature, the New Latin American Historical
Novel, and postmodernism/postcolonialism in Latin America.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Articles Published:
"The Search for
Happiness and the Grail Theme in Julien Gracq's Le Rivage des Syrtes and Un balcon en
forêt," Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, Volume 8 (Quest and Discovery), the
University of Louisville, (1984), 42-47.
"Claude Simon's Bricolage Technique in La
Route des Flandres, Le Palace and Histoire," Degré Second, 7 (July, 1983), 81-108.
"Simon's The Flanders Road," The
Explicator, VII:3 (Spring, 1979), 15-16.
"Myth and Historico-Primordial Memory in
Claude Simon's La Route des Flandres," Nottingham French Studies, 17:2 (October,
1979), 74-86.
"Claude Simon and Gabriel García Márquez:
The Conflict Between histoire-Histoire and historia-Historia," Papers on Romance
Literary Relations, (1976), 1-22.
"The Myths of Revolution and the City in
Claude Simon's Le Palace," Studies in the Twentieth Century, 16 (1975), 53-85.
Other Articles:
"The Myths of War and the Hero in Drieu La
Rochelle's La comédie de Charleroi," Les Bonnes Feuilles, VIII:1 (Fall, 1979),
63-79.
"La Sincérité chez Christine de Pisan et
Alain Chartier," Chimères, (Autumn/Spring, 1976-77), 39-48.
"Memory, Structure and Time in La Route des
Flandres," Les Bonnes Feuilles, 5:2 (Spring, 1976), 41-58.
"L'Influence du cinéma et ses techniques
sur quelques romans de Claude Simon," Les Bonnes Feuilles, V:1 (Fall, 1975), 33-46. |
