Department of French

Department of French

   

Margaret Rigaud-Drayton is interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French poetry and painting, particularly the encounter of Word and Image in nineteenth- and twentieth-century verbal and visual arts, theories on signification and the 'poetic', psychoanalytic and pre-Freudian theories of identity and creativity, French literary and artistic ideas on the resistance of the colonial other to fixed interpretations. She is currently exploring these interests through the nineteenth and twentieth century's fascination with the notion of the 'ideogram'. She is the author of articles on Henri Michaux and of a recent monograph, Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting, and the Universal Sign (OUP, 2005).