Screech, M(ichael) A(ndrew)

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SCREECH, M(ichael) A(ndrew)

SCREECH, M(ichael) A(ndrew). British, b. 1926. Genres: Intellectual history, Literary criticism and history, Theology/Religion, Bibliography, Translations. Career: Intelligence Corps, 1944-48; University of Birmingham, England, lecturer, 1951-58, senior lecturer, 1959-61; University of London, England, reader, 1961-66, personal chair of French, 1966-71, Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature, 1971-84; All Souls College, Oxford, England, visiting fellow, 1981, senior research fellow, 1984-93, emeritus, 1993-, fellow and chaplain, 2001-03, Wolfson College, extraordinary fellow, 1993-, hon. fellow, 2001-. Visiting professor at universities in France, US, and Canada. Ordained deacon, 1993; ordained priest, 1994. Publications: The Rabelaisian Marriage, 1958, rev. ed. in French, 1991; L'Evangélisme de Rabelais, 1959, rev. ed. in English, 1991; Tiers Livre de Pantagruel, 1964; Les epistres et évangiles de Lefèvre d'Etaples, 1964; (with J. Jollife) Les Regrets et autres oeuvres poétiques, 1966; Marot évangëlique, 1967; La Pantagrueline Prognostication, 1975; (ed. with R.M. Calder) Rabelais, Gargantua, 1970; Erasmus: Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly, 1980, 1989, rev. ed. in French, 1991; Rabelais, 1982, rev. ed. in French, 1991; Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the Essays, 1983, rev. ed. in French, 1991; (ed. and trans.) Michel de Montaigne, An Apology for Raymond Sebond, 1987; (with S. Rawles et al.) A New Rabelais Bibliography: Editions before 1626, 1987; Looking at Rabelais, 1989; Rabelais and the Challenge of the Gospel, 1992; Some Renaissance Studies, 1992; (trans.) Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays, 1992; Clément Marot: A Renaissance Poet Discovers the Gospel, 1993; (ed.) Doctrina at Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1995; Laughter at the Foot of the Cross, 1997; Montaigne's Copy of Lucretius, 1997. Address: All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4AL, England. Online address: [email protected]

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