Research areas
Modern literature and ideas, particularly in relation to the changing scientific, philosophic, religious and cultural context of the period 1870-1945. He is the author of critical studies in French and English of the poet and thinker Paul Valiry, has edited collections of essays on the problems of personal identity (self and subject) and collective identity, and written books on the problems of love and desire in twentieth-century French writing
Selected publications
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Gifford, P. & Antonello, P., Apr 2026, The Bloomsbury handbook of mimetic theory. Cowdell, S., Hodge, J. & Fleming, C. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury
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Gifford, P., Apr 2026, The Bloomsbury handbook of mimetic theory. Cowdell, S., Hodge, J. & Fleming, C. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury
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Gifford, P., 2011, Narratives of French Modernity: Themes, Forms and Metamorphoses- Essays in Honour of David Gascoigne. Orr, M. & Milne, L. (eds.). Verlag Peter Lang AG, (Modern French Identities; no. 62).
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Valéry, P., Gifford, P. (Editor), Stimpson , B. (Editor), Pickering, R., Rinsler, N. (Editor) & Joseph, R. (Editor), 2010, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Verlag Peter Lang AG.
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Gifford, P., 2008, Le rire européen . Duncan, A. B. & Chamayou, A. (eds.). Presses universitaires de Perpignan, p. 95-111
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Gifford, P., 2008, Paul Valéry. « Regards » sur l’histoire.. Pickering, R. & Hontebeyrie, M. (eds.). Clermont-Ferrand, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, p. 301-313
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Gifford, P. P. D. (Editor) & Schmid, M. (Editor), 2007, Rodopi. 309 p.
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Gifford, P., 2007, Paul Valéry, La Jeune Parque en question. Lettres Modernes Minard
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Gifford, P. P. D., 2006, Paul Valery 11, "La Jeune Parque", des brouillons au poeme, nouvelles lectures genetiques. Haffner, F., Hontebeyrie, M. & Pickering, R. (eds.). Lettres Modernes Minard, p. 75-98
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Gifford, P., 2006, Paul Valery 12, Image, imagination, imaginaire. Kim, S.-T. (ed.). Lettres Modernes Minard, p. 143-156
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