Faculty: N. Gregson G. Davis
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies and Professor of Literature and Dean of Humanities |
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227 Allen Building |
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(919) 684-3244 |
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gdav@duke.edu |
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| http://literature.aas.duke.edu/~gdav |
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| Education:
- PhD in Comparative Literature (Latin, Greek, French),, University of California at Berkeley, 1969
- AB in Classics, Magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1960
Research Interests:
Greek and Latin Poetry; Francophone Caribbean
Literature; rhetoric; semiotics; pragmatics Representative Publications (More Publications)
Books
- Aimé Césaire. Cambridge University Press, 1997 . (Cambridge)
- Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse. University of California Press, 1991 . (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford)
- Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire. Stanford University Press, 1984 . (Stanford, Ca.)
- The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Edizioni dell' Ateneo, 1983 . (Rome, Italy)
Papers Published
- "Ait Phaselus: The Caricature of Stylistic Inelegance in Catullus 4"." "Materiali e discussioni per l'analysi dei testi classici." 48 (August, 2002): 111-143.
- "Carmina/Iambi: the literary-generic dimension of Horace's Integer vitae (C.1, 22)." Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica 27.3 (1987): 67-78. Why Horace: A Collection of Interpretations, ed. W.S. Anderson, Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda, Ill, 1999, 51-62
- "'With no Homeric Shadow': The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros.." South Atlantic Quarterly 96.2 (1997): 321-33.
Curriculum Vitae
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