Bruce Merry

Bruce Merry (* 1944 ) is a South African Italian , English and Neo-Greekist .

Merry was Lecturer in Italian Language and Literature at Witwatersrand University , Johannesburg , later Associate Professor of English at the University of Kuwait and finally Professor of Modern Languages at James Cook University , North Queensland , Australia .

Merry works in the field of Italian studies on Italian poetry, in particular on the Nobel Prize for Literature Eugenio Montale , the Renaissance poet and courtesan Tullia d'Aragona and the representation of women in contemporary Italian literature . In the field of neo- Greek studies , he has distinguished himself through an encyclopedic manual on modern Greek literature .

Fonts (selection)

• Anatomy of the spy thriller. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1977.
• with Guido Almansi: Eugenio Montale. The private language of poetry. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1977.
• Women in modern Italian literature. 1990.
• Tullia d'Aragona: Dialogue on the infinity of love. Translated by Rinaldina Russell and Bruce Merry. University of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 0-226-13639-6 , book advertisement
• Encyclopedia of modern Greek literature. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 0313308136 , excerpts online .