Philip Thody
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Malcolm Waller Thody was an English scholar of French literature who was Professor of French Literature at the University of Leeds from 1965 until 1993. Early life and education Thody was born in Lincoln in 1928 and educated locally. After national service in the RAF, he read French at King's College London and subsequently lived in Paris for three years, writing a thesis on 'The Vogue of the American Novel in France since 1944', including a year as a lecteur at the Sorbonne.
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- The Hidden God. A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine (1967) (105)
- Lyrical and Critical Essays (1968) (90)
- Notebooks, 1935-1942 (1962) (27)
- An Historical Introduction to the European Union (1997) (19)
- Roland Barthes: A Conservative Estimate (1977) (18)
- Albert Camus, 1913-1960 (1961) (17)
- Don't Do It!: A Dictionary of the Forbidden (1997) (14)
- Selected Essays And Notebooks (1970) (14)
- The Fifth French Republic : presidents, politics and personalities (1998) (13)
- Le Franglais: Forbidden English, Forbidden American, Law, Politics and Language in Contemporary France: A Study in Loan Words and National Identity (1996) (12)
- Europe Since 1945 (1985) (10)
- Albert Camus: A Study of His Work (2000) (7)
- The Interrupted Dialectic: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Their Tragic Other (1993) (7)
- Sartre: a biographical introduction (1971) (7)
- Jean Genet: A study of his novels and plays, (1968) (7)
- Aldous Huxley: a biographical introduction (1973) (5)
- Huxley: A biographical introduction (1973) (4)
- French Caesarism from Napoleon I to Charles de Gaulle (1989) (4)
- Sartre for Beginners (1994) (4)
- Demography, Public Opinion and Politics in France, 1974-1980. (1981) (4)
- Laclos: Critical approaches to Les Liaisons dangereuses (1978) (3)
- The conservative imagination (1993) (3)
- Existential Psycho-Analysis (1970) (3)
- Twentieth-Century Literature: Critical Issues and Themes (1996) (3)
- Barthes for Beginners (1993) (3)
- As Mighty as the Sword: A Study of the Writings of Charles de Gaulle (1996) (3)
- "Les Liaisons Dangereuses": Some Problems of Interpretation (1968) (2)
- 'Les Liaisons dangereuses': A Study of Motive and Moral (1991) (2)
- Image-Music-Text.Roland Barthes , Stephen Heath (1980) (2)
- Roland Barthes: A Conservative Estimate@@@Image-Music-Text (1979) (2)
- Albert Camus. A Biography@@@Albert Camus (1980) (1)
- Jean-Paul Sartre: A Literary and Political Study (1964) (1)
- Camus's L'Etranger revisited (1979) (1)
- Faux Amis and Key Words (2000) (1)
- A Note on Camus and the American Novel (1957) (1)
- Barthes para principiantes (1997) (1)
- Albert Camus: A Study of His Work@@@Albert Camus: The Invincible Summer@@@The Thought and Art of Albert Camus@@@Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt@@@Camus (1961) (1)
- La Peste d'Albert Camus (1993) (1)
- New writing in France (1986) (1)
- Faux amis & key words : a dictionary-guide to French language, culture, and society through lookalikes and confusables (1985) (1)
- Talking About Sartre (1990) (1)
- Reviews : The Lacanian Delusion. By François Roustang. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 138. £19.50 (1991) (0)
- Charles de Gaulle: The Winner (1989) (0)
- Technique, Codes and Ambiguity (1989) (0)
- French Caesarism from Napoleon I to Charles de Gaulle. (1991) (0)
- Reviews : Sartre: Literature and Theory. By Rhiannon Goldthorpe. (Cambridge Studies in French.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 256 pp. £27.50 (1985) (0)
- Reviews : Proust et la chose envolée. By Margaret Mein. Paris: Nizet, I986 (1988) (0)
- Socialism in Western Europe (2002) (0)
- Reviews : Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation. By John F. Sweets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. 296 pp. + index. £22.50 (1987) (0)
- Reflections of a very English Professor of French (1999) (0)
- Racine, quarrels and criticism (1977) (0)
- Moral Dilemmas I: Religion, Ethics and some Incidental Truths (1996) (0)
- The EEC and the Oil Crises of the 1970s (2002) (0)
- Reviews : Feminist Studies The Unintended Reader: Feminism and 'Manon Lescaut'. By Naomi Segal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, I986. 324 pp. £27.50 (1988) (0)
- Heredity, Homosexuality and Science (1987) (0)
- Reviews : François Mauriac, Visions and Reappraisals. Edited by John E. Flower and Bernard C. Swift. New York: St Martin's Press, 1989. Pp. vii-xiii + 217. £25.00 (1991) (0)
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre (1992) (0)
- Napoleon I: The Unifier (1989) (0)
- Magic Realism, Post-modernism and Toni Morrison (1996) (0)
- Reviews : Citizenship and Order: Studies in French Political Thought. By Richard Vernon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986. 229 pp. $ Canadian 30 (1987) (0)
- Reviews : Queneau's Fiction: An Introductory Study. By Christopher Shorley. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985. 242 pp. + index. £25 (1987) (0)
- Reviews : Representations of Belief: Essays in Memory of G. V. Banks. Edited by Elizabeth Fallaize, Ron Hallmark and Ian Pickup. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1991. Pp. 212. £10.95 (1992) (0)
- Exclusion, Society and Advice (1987) (0)
- Review Essay : Models of French Analysis (1984) (0)
- Moral Certainties and the Problem of Determinism: The Example of the Literature of Cowardice (1996) (0)
- Reviews : Sartre's Existential Biographies. By Michael Scriven. London: Macmillan, 1984. 152 pp. £20.00 (1985) (0)
- Reviews : General Studies Encounters. Edited by Kai Erikson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 163. £14.95 (1991) (0)
- Visions of Childhood I: The Child Unhappy on its own Account (1996) (0)
- Reviews : Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth Century France. By Charles Bernheimer, Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 329. £23.95 (1991) (0)
- Fashion, fads and language (1977) (0)
- Reviews : The Religion of Humanity: The Impact of Comtean Positivism on Victorian England. By T. R. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 290 pp. with index. £27.50 (1987) (0)
- Signs, myths and politics (1977) (0)
- Reviews : General Studies Norbert Elias: Civilization and the Human Self-Image. By Stephen Mennell. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, I989. Pp. x + 3I9. £30.00 (1989) (0)
- Carlets, 1935-1942 (1963) (0)
- Roland Barthes : a conservative estimate : with a new afterword (1983) (0)
- Humour, Observation and Realism (1987) (0)
- The Man, the Books and the Themes (1989) (0)
- Reviews : France and Britain 1900-1940. The Long Separation. By P. M. H. Bell. Longman: London and New York, 1997. Pp. 328. £42.00 (p/bk £14.99 (1997) (0)
- Reviews : Michel Foucault. By Mark Cousins and Athar Hussain. (Theoretical Traditions in the Social Sciences.) London: Macmillan, 1984. vii + 278 pp. £15.00 (1985) (0)
- Models, Language and Perspective (1987) (0)
- Reviews : France and Britain 1900-1940. Entente and Estrangement. By P. M. H. Bell. London and New York: Longman, 1996 (1996) (0)
- Reviews : Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Paris. By Jill Harsin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. 402 pp. + index. £35.50 (1987) (0)
- Reviews : My France: Politics, Culture, Myth. By Eugen Weber. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. 410. £19.95 (1992) (0)
- Evil, Allegory and Revolt (1989) (0)
- Currencies and power (2002) (0)
- Moral Dilemmas II: Philosophy, Free Will, and some Visions of the Future (1996) (0)
- William Faulkner en France (1931-1952)@@@Configuration Critique de William Faulkner, II (1960) (0)
- Reviews : The Civilian in War. The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the USA in World War II. Edited by Jeremy Noakes. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1992. Pp. 200. £9.95 (1993) (0)
- Review. Sartre: a philosophic study. Manser, A. (1967) (0)
- Reviews : French Studies (1982) (0)
- "Les Faux-Monnayeurs": The Theme of Responsibility (1960) (0)
- Moral Dilemmas III: Ends, Means and Irony; the Examples of Shaw, Dürrenmatt, Steiner and Sartre (1996) (0)
- Reviews : Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction. By Malcolm Bowie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, I987. 225 pp. £25 (1988) (0)
- Roland Barthes. A Conservative Estimate@@@Beyond the Empire of Signs (1979) (0)
- Themes, Variations and Constants (1996) (0)
- Organisation and powers (1997) (0)
- Madness, History and Sex (1996) (0)
- Suggestions for further reading (1997) (0)
- Philippe Pétain: The Victim (1989) (0)
- Review. Camus. Scott, Nathan A. (1964) (0)
- Varieties of Realism I: Plays, Intertextuality and Myth (1996) (0)
- Biography, writing and method (1977) (0)
- Reviews : Sociolinguistics and Contemporary French. By Dennis Ager. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 263. £9.95. Varieties of Contemporary French. By Malcolm Offord. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education Ltd, 1990. Pp. 271. £35.00 (1991) (0)
- Love, Jealousy and Lesbianism (1987) (0)
- Review. Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt. Cruickshank, John (1960) (0)
- Reviews : Totalitarian Language: Orwell's Newspeak and its Nazi and Communist Antecedents. By John Wesley Young. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1991. Pp. 335. £32.95 (1994) (0)
- Roland Barthes. Nottingham French Studies, 36.1 (Spring 1997) (1998) (0)
- Marxism, Freudianism and ideology (1977) (0)
- Amalrik, France and the politics of history (1978) (0)
- Book reviews. (1981) (0)
- Sartre Studies International, 1.1/2 (1995) (1996) (0)
- William Faulkner: Art in Theological Tension@@@William Faulkner's Library: A Catalogue@@@Who's Who in Faulkner (1966) (0)
- The Book, the Memories and the Man (1987) (0)
- Twentieth-Century Literature (1996) (0)
- Criticism, obsessions and the theatre (1977) (0)
- Reviews : Irony and Ethics in Narrative: From Schlegel to Lacan. By Gary J. Handwerk. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. 227 pp. + index. £21 (1987) (0)
- Freud, Childhood and the Unconscious (1987) (0)
- Sartre, Orwell and Barthes: the politics of semiology (1976) (0)
- Mistakable French: A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Easily Confused (1986) (0)
- Review. Sartre. Jeanson, F. (1968) (0)
- Reviews : Philosophy and Literature. Edited by A. Phillips Griffiths. (Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, 16.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. v + 233 pp. £9.95 (1985) (0)
- Reviews : European Studies The End of Literary Theory. By Stein Hangom Olsen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, I987. 233 pages. £25 (1988) (0)
- Politics, realism and literature (1977) (0)
- Reviews : The Knight-Monks of Vichy France: Uriage, 1940-45. By John Hellman. Montreal & Kingston, London, Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. 326. £33.95 (1994) (0)
- Literature in Theory and in Practice (1987) (0)
- Reviews : George Orwell: l'Engagement. By Gilbert Bonifas. (Collections Études Anglaises.) Paris: Didier, 1984. 500 pp (1985) (0)
- Reviews : The Civilian in War. The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the USA in World War II. Edited by Jeremy Noakes. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1992. Pp. 200. £9.95 (1993) (0)
- Varieties of Realism II: Censorship, the Novel and the City; the Use of Myths in Joyce and Tournier (1996) (0)
- Aldous Huxley: A Biographical Introduction@@@Aldous Huxley@@@Aldous Huxley: Satirist and Novelist (1974) (0)
- Reviews : Ways of Lying - Dissimulation, Persecution & Conformity in Early Modern Europe. By Perez Zagorin. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp 337. £27.95 (1991) (0)
- Making connections : essays in French culture and society in honour of Philip Thody (2001) (0)
- Roland Barthes and the English Tradition (1977) (0)
- Reviews : Narcissus and Echo. Women in the French Récit. By Naomi Segal. Manchester: Manchester University Press, I988. Pp. 253. £27.50 (1989) (0)
- Exile, Humanism and a Conclusion (1989) (0)
- Review. Gyorgy Lukacs and the Literary Pretext. Corredor, Eva L. (1990) (0)
- Essay Review : Denis Hollier (ed.). New History of French Literature. A panorama of literature in its cultural context - music, painting, politics, and monuments public and private. Cambridge, MA. & London: Harvard University Press. Pp.xxi + 1150. ISBN 0-674-61565-4 (1990) (0)
- Narration, Chronology and Technique (1987) (0)
- Reviews : Sartre and 'Les Temps Modernes'. By Howard Davies. Cambridge Studies in French, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987. Pp. 265. £17.50. Intellectuals and the Left in France since 1968. By Keith Reader. London: Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 154. £22.50 (1989) (0)
- Reviews : Paris Sewers and Sewermen - Realities and Representations. By Donald Reid. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. 000. £31.95 (1992) (0)
- Review. Lettres 1920-1941, ed. by S. J. Collier. Jacob, M. (1967) (0)
- Reviews : Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization. By Richard F. Kuisel. Berkeley, New York, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 296. $30.00 (1994) (0)
- Post-Robbins discussions and reflections (1982) (0)
- Napoleon III: The Imitator (1989) (0)
- Review. In Search of Authenticity: From Kierkegaard to Camus. Colomb, Jacob (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews : European Studies Europe. A Cultural History. By Peter Rietbergen. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xvi + 516. £16.99 (1999) (0)
- Reviews : General Studies The Nature of the Right. Themes in Right-Wing Ideology and Politics Series. Edited by Roger Eatwell and Noel O'Sullivan. London: Printer Publishers, 1989. Pp. 203. £27.50 (1991) (0)
- Visions of Childhood II: The Child Wicked on its own Account (1996) (0)
- Logothetes, pleasure and Sisyphus (1977) (0)
- In the Interest of the Nation? Gaullist Party Ideology 1947-1990@@@'The Filthy French': Examples of Ethnocentric Stereotypes in the British Tabloid Press (1996) (0)
- The Subversive Tradition in French Literature. Volumes I and II (1991) (0)
- Varieties of Realism III: Naturalism, Tragedy and the Unconscious (1996) (0)
- Politics, Commitment and the Responsibilities of the Scientist (1996) (0)
- Review Essays : Freedom Come, Freedom Go (1974) (0)
- Reviews : Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism. By James Schmidt. (Contemporary Social Theory.) London: Macmillan, 1985. viii + 214 pp. £20.00 (1985) (0)
- Lawyers, Guilt and Satire (1989) (0)
- Reviews : Thiers I797-I877: A Political Life. By J. P. Bury and R. P. Tombs. London: Allen & Unwin, 1986. 306 pp. £27.50 (1987) (0)
- Balzac, fiction and Japan (1977) (0)
- Diversities of Sex (1955) (0)
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