Mr Maxwell John Walkley
M.A, (Hons) Sydney
Honorary Associate
Room 739 Brennan MacCallum A18
Research areas
- Medieval French and Provençal language and literature
- Littérature de la Suisse romande (=Swiss French literature)
- Littératures du Québec et de l’Acadie.
Current projects
- Edition of Jean Gerson’s Exemplaire des petis enfans
Selected publications
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"Skilful recastings, Creative Liberties or a Comedy of Errors? Jean Daudin as a translator of St Jerome", in P. Monks and D. Owen (eds), Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and translation. Studies for Keith Sinclair, Leiden, 1994, 312-320.
“Serendipity, sabbaticals and scholarship: the discovery of Jean Gerson’s Exemplaire des petis enfans”, in Margarett Burrell and Judith Grant (eds), L’Offrande du coeur Medieval and Early Modern Studies in Honour of Glynnis Cropp,. Christchurch, Canterbury University Press, 2004, pp.133 – 143.
"Introducing Francophone Courses at Sydney : Swiss and Canadian French Literature", in Wallace Kirsop (ed.), "Matchless Entertainment and Instruction" : Contributions to a Portrait of French Studies in Australia, Melbourne, 1994, 31-39.
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"Jean Gerson's Exemplaire des petis enfans, a 'scripted object' appearing in Spencer 17 of the New York Public Library", Parergon 13, No.2, January 1996,151-163.)**
Review article : Keith Busby (ed.), Towards a Synthesis? Essays on the New Philology, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1993, pp.137. (New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 16 (No.2), 1995, 38-44).
"Comic Elements in the Thirteenth-Century Provençal Romance 'Flamenca', in ARTS, the Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, Vol.18, 1996, 87-108.
“Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846): A Swiss Satirist of French Society and Culture”, Arts. The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, Vol. 20, 1998, 106-122.
"Roch Carrier, Popular Language and Joual", Babel, Vol. 32, No.2. July - Sept. 1997, 14-17 and 33.
"The audience of Jean Gerson's Exemplaire des petits enfants", Paedagogica Historica 28, 1992. 61-74.**
“The Fabliaux as a guide to ‘Lifemanship’ in Medieval France”, Parergon 25, 1979, 33-38.
“The Critics and Lanval” New Zealand Journal of French Studies 4, 1983, 5 23.
“L’Exemplaire des petits enfants: un texte de Jean Gerson qu’on croyait perdu”, Romania 104, 1983, 538-545. **
“‘Pommes escriptes et brevez estranges’: Forbidden fruit in fifteenth-century France”, New Zealand Journal of French Studies 5, 1984, 51-61. **
Areas of teaching and research supervision
- Medieval French and Provençal language and literature
- Littérature de la Suisse romande (=Swiss French literature)
- Littératures du Québec et de l’Acadie.