Professor R.J. Parish

Richard J. Parish, M.A., D.Phil. (B.A. Newc.), Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Professor of French, Fellow of St Catherine's College
Address:  St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ
Email:   richard.parish@stcatz.ox.ac.uk

Research

Richard Parish's principal research interests are in seventeenth-century theatre, especially Racine; seventeenth-century Catholic writing; and seventeenth-century memoirs. He was involved in the tercentenary conferences on Racine in France, and is preparing a book provisionally entitled Le christianisme est étrange.

Teaching

Descartes (French sole); 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century periods plus all prescribed authors therein except Diderot; Gide (Paper XI) and middle-period options.

Selected Publications | View all publications

'Pascal's Lettres provinciales: from flippancy to fundamentals', Cambridge Companion to Pascal, ed. Nicholas Hammond (2003), 182-200

'Métamorphoses de Racine: la Phaedra de Benjamin Britten', Jean Racine 1699-1999, ed. Gilles Declercq and Michèle Rosellini (2003), 685-695

'Je t'aime moi non plus; disjunction and the discourse of love in the seventeenth century', Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 24 (2002), 17-28

Scarron: Le Roman comique, Critical Guides to French Texts (London, Grant & Cutler, 1999)

'L'hapax legomenon dans le théâtre tragique de Racine', in: Bénédicte Louvat and Dominique Moncond'huy, Racine poète (Poitiers, La Licorne, 1999), 343-53

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