Dr Tim Farrant
Teaching activities
French Language and eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century French Literature; Balzac, short fiction, Baudelaire; literature and the visual arts; nineteenth-century prose fiction (Masters); recent/current D. Phil superivision and examining: Balzac, Bertrand, Sand.
College Function
- Senior Modern Languages Fellow, Fellow and Tutor in French
Affiliations
- Faculty of Mediaeval and Modern Languages
- UK Correspondent, Groupe d'études Balzaciennes
- Society of Dix-Neuviémistes.
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Comments
At Pembroke, we take language as seriously as literature and culture, and aim for both creativity and rigour.
French Language and eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century French Literature; Balzac, short fiction, Baudelaire; literature and the visual arts; nineteenth-century prose fiction (Masters); recent/current D. Phil superivision and examining: Balzac, Bertrand, Sand.
Books
- Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature, London, Duckworth, 2007.
- Jules Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Round the World in Eighty Days, London, Everyman, 2013.
Articles
- ‘Definition, Repression, and the Oral/Literary interface in the French literary conte from the folie du conte to the Second Empire’, The Conte: Written and Oral Dynamics, ed. J. Carruthers and M. McCusker, Oxford, Bern, New York, Peter Lang, 2009.
- ‘Fantastique et Science : Les Savants fous de Balzac’, Otrante, revue du Groupe d’Etude des Esthétiques de l’Etrange et du Fantastique de Fontenay , 2009.
- ‘Baudelaire’s Poe: an influential misreading ?’, Loxias 28 : Edgar Poe et la Traduction, Centre Transdisciplinaire d’Epistémologie de la Littérature, Université de Nice 2010.
- ‘La Vue d’en face : Balzac et l’illustration’, L’Année balzacienne 2011.
- ‘Topographie et idéologie: image et texte dans les Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France’, Image et voyage : Représentations iconographiques du voyage, de la méditerranée aux Indes orientales et occidentales, de la fin du moyen âge au XIXe siècle, ed. L. Guyon & S. Requemora-Gros, Presses Universitaires d’Aix-en-provence, 2012.
- ‘Remémorer Rabelais en France au XIXe siècle’, Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture, ed. S. Harrow and A. Watts, 2012.
- ‘Burying the past: De-reading Dominique’, Re-reading / La Relecture, ed. R. Falconer and A. Oliver, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.
- ‘Can a tale be telling without a plot? Daudet and the Perils of the Popular’, Finding the Plot: On the Importance of Storytelling in Popular Fiction, ed. D. Holmes and D. Platten, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.
Dr Tim Farrant
Teaching activities
French Language and eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century French Literature; Balzac, short fiction, Baudelaire; literature and the visual arts; nineteenth-century prose fiction (Masters); recent/current D. Phil superivision and examining: Balzac, Bertrand, Sand.
College Function
- Senior Modern Languages Fellow, Fellow and Tutor in French
Affiliations
- Faculty of Mediaeval and Modern Languages
- UK Correspondent, Groupe d'études Balzaciennes
- Society of Dix-Neuviémistes.
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Comments
At Pembroke, we take language as seriously as literature and culture, and aim for both creativity and rigour.
French Language and eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century French Literature; Balzac, short fiction, Baudelaire; literature and the visual arts; nineteenth-century prose fiction (Masters); recent/current D. Phil superivision and examining: Balzac, Bertrand, Sand.
Books
- Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature, London, Duckworth, 2007.
- Jules Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Round the World in Eighty Days, London, Everyman, 2013.
Articles
- ‘Definition, Repression, and the Oral/Literary interface in the French literary conte from the folie du conte to the Second Empire’, The Conte: Written and Oral Dynamics, ed. J. Carruthers and M. McCusker, Oxford, Bern, New York, Peter Lang, 2009.
- ‘Fantastique et Science : Les Savants fous de Balzac’, Otrante, revue du Groupe d’Etude des Esthétiques de l’Etrange et du Fantastique de Fontenay , 2009.
- ‘Baudelaire’s Poe: an influential misreading ?’, Loxias 28 : Edgar Poe et la Traduction, Centre Transdisciplinaire d’Epistémologie de la Littérature, Université de Nice 2010.
- ‘La Vue d’en face : Balzac et l’illustration’, L’Année balzacienne 2011.
- ‘Topographie et idéologie: image et texte dans les Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France’, Image et voyage : Représentations iconographiques du voyage, de la méditerranée aux Indes orientales et occidentales, de la fin du moyen âge au XIXe siècle, ed. L. Guyon & S. Requemora-Gros, Presses Universitaires d’Aix-en-provence, 2012.
- ‘Remémorer Rabelais en France au XIXe siècle’, Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture, ed. S. Harrow and A. Watts, 2012.
- ‘Burying the past: De-reading Dominique’, Re-reading / La Relecture, ed. R. Falconer and A. Oliver, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.
- ‘Can a tale be telling without a plot? Daudet and the Perils of the Popular’, Finding the Plot: On the Importance of Storytelling in Popular Fiction, ed. D. Holmes and D. Platten, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.