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“... One gets the impression from Riffaterre’s book that he enjoys playing single-minded hedgehog to the foxy representatives of Parisian post-structuralist fashion. Despite some fairly arcane terminology, he is basically an old-style formalist whose forays into theory are largely in the service of traditional interpretative ends. The literary text, for Riffaterre, is an object of patient and erudite close-reading, a ‘monument’ whose utterly distinctive character the critic sets out to describe and explain ...”

“... a project that seemed bound up with nationalist and Welsh-language activism. When the pollster Philip Gould led focus groups in Wales, he found a depressing ‘lack of confidence of people in themselves, their communities and the future’.In the end the narrow margin of victory didn’t matter. The Welsh Assembly existed, and over time it took on more ...”

“... Elizabeth Anscombe offered them a bed for the night if they were ever in Cambridge. Even Prince Philip is here, thanking Stefan for sending a copy of one of his lectures. Philip encloses a lecture of his own, venturing that ‘parts of it seem to fit your thesis.’ Running​ a small avant-garde press is always a ...”

“... by an ardent Apollinairean in 1946. Padgett himself met her at an Apollinaire conference held at Barnard College in the 1960s, by which time she was in her eighties, and living with her sister in Katonah, New York State. Had Apollinaire ‘behaved’ himself, Padgett tactfully inquired, to which she responded: ‘He was a perfect gentleman.’ Alcools ...”