Roger Pearson (linguist)
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Roger Pearson is a professor of French at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, founded 1341, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Queen's is centrally situated on the High Street, and is renowned for its 18th-century architecture...
. His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century French literature and has worked particularly on Voltaire
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
, Stendhal
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme...
, Zola
Zola
Zola may refer to:People:* Zola , South African entertainer* Émile Zola , French novelist* Arlette Zola, Swiss singer* Calvin Zola , Congo DR footballer...
, Maupassant and Mallarmé
Mallarmé
Mallarmé can refer to:* Stéphane Mallarmé , French poet and critic.* François-René-Auguste Mallarmé , politician during the French Revolution....
. Pearson has also worked as a French to English translator.
Pearson did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...
. He then became a College Lecturer at The Queen's College in October 1973. In 1977 he became a full University Lecturer and was appointed professor in 1997. In 2005 he was appointed Officer in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.
Pearson's book Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence was awarded the 2005 R. H. Gapper Book Prize
R. H. Gapper Book Prize
The R.H. Gapper Book Prize, offered by the Society for French Studies, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 2002 for the best book published in the field of French Studies by a scholar based at an institution of higher education in the UK or Ireland.-Table of winners:-External...
by the UK Society for French Studies
Society for French Studies
The Society for French Studies, or SFS, is the oldest learned association for French Studies in the UK and Ireland. It aims to promote teaching and research in French Studies within higher education....
. This prize recognises the work as the best book published by a scholar working in Britain or Ireland in French studies in 2004.
Publications
Authored Books- Stendhal's Violin: A Novelist and his Reader (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988)
- The Fables of Reason: A Study of Voltaire's 'contes philosophiques (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
- Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
- Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004)
- Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom (London: Bloomsbury, 2005)
Translations
- Zola, La Bete humaine, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 1996)
- Zola, Germinal, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 2004)