Willis G Regier

Biographic Data

ID440417
NAMEWillis G Regier
GIVEN NAMESWillis G
FAMILY NAMERegier
SIGNATUREREGIER W G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois System
ORCID0000-0002-2763-3751
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Estes, James M. Good Government and Church Order: Essays on the Role of Secular Authority in the German Reformation

    Open AccessWillis G RegierARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2024

    For fifty years, James M. Estes has studied relations between church and state in early Reformation Germany.This book collects his major essays from that period.Ten of its eleven chapters are revisions of essays previously published in journals and Festschriften; the eleventh is first published here.Each essay was composed to be read independently, a quality all retain.Good as they were apart, they're better together: they refer to each other and…

  • Erasmus, Desiderius. The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2803 to 2939. Trans. Clarence H. Miller, with Charles Fantazzi. Annot. James M. Estes

    Willis G RegierARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2020

    Erasmus, Desiderius. The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2803 to 2939. Trans. Clarence H. Miller, with Charles Fantazzi. Annot. James M. Estes. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 43, Number 3, Summer 2020, pp. 9-355), on Érudit

  • Erasmi Opera Omnia IX–9

    Willis G RegierARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2020

  • Erasmi Opera Omnia Ordo VII

    Willis G RegierARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2020

  • The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2472 to 2634, April 1531 to March 1532

    Willis G RegierARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2020

  • Erasmus, Desiderius. The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus: An Introduction with Erasmus’ Prefaces and Ancillary Writings. Ed. Robert D. Sider

    Open AccessWillis G RegierARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2019

    of Erasmus (hereafter CWE 41) translates Erasmus's writings inserted into editions of his New Testament.Its eleven pieces include several of Erasmus's most reconsidered writings on Scripture, Christ, and the church.Here are the Paraclesis, Apologia, Methodus, Ratio seu methodus, and De philosophia evangelica, key texts for understanding Erasmus's theology, ecclesiology, and exegetics.CWE 41 also includes translations of his New Testament paratext…

  • The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus: An Introduction with Erasmus’ Prefaces and Ancillary Writings

    Willis G RegierARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2019

    The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus: An Introduction with Erasmus’ Prefaces and Ancillary Writings. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 42, Number 2, Spring 2019, pp. 7-270), on Érudit

  • La Réforme et la fable

    Willis G RegierARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2019

  • The Valmiki Ramayana trans. Bibek Debroy, and: The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki trans. Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2018

    Reviewed by: The Valmiki Ramayana trans. Bibek Debroy, and: The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki trans. Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman Willis Goth Regier Bibek Debroy, translator. The Valmiki Ramayana. Three volumes. Penguin Books, 2017. xxvi + 381; xxvi + 482; xxvi + 492 pages. Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, translators. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, volume 7: Uttarakāṇḍa. Princeton UP, 2017. xxii + 1522 pages. 2017 was a ba…

  • The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2357 to 2471, August 1530 to March 1531 by Desiderius Erasmus

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2016

    Reviewed by: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2357 to 2471, August 1530 to March 1531 by Desiderius Erasmus Willis G. Regier Desiderius Erasmus. The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2357 to 2471, August 1530 to March 1531. Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 17. Translated by Charles Fantazzi, annotated by James M. Estes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. xx, 391 pages. Victorian historian J. A. Froude wrote, “The best description …

  • The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2082 to 2203, 1529. Collected Works of Erasmus by Desiderius Erasmus (review)

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2012

  • Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (review)

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2012

    Reviewed by: Genealogy of the Pagan Gods Willis Goth Regier Giovanni Boccaccio. Genealogy of the Pagan Gods. Volume I: Books I–V. Translated by Jon Solomon. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 46. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011. xxxvii + 887 pages. We have waited centuries for an English translation of the Genealogia deorum gentilium, Boccaccio’s survey of Greek and Roman myth. Edmund Spenser and John Milton read it in Latin. A French translation of Books …

  • The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1802 to 1925. Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 13 , and: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1926 to 2081. Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 14 (review)

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2011

    Reviewed by: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1802 to 1925. Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 13, and: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1926 to 2081. Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 14 Willis G. Regier Desiderius Erasmus. The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1802 to 1925. Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 13. Trans. Charles Fantazzi. Ann. James K. Farge. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2010. 574 pages. Desiderius Erasmus. The Correspondence…

  • Shahrazad's New Clothes

    Willis G RegierARTICLEWorld Literature Today2010

    ESSAY ShahrazacTs New Clothes WillisG. Regier A completetronslotion ofTheArabianNightsisamightyfeat. Because of their length, dialects, and complexity, the Nights are more often retold than translated. In the following review-commentary, Willis G. Regier sizes up how the latest English translation compares with itsprecursors. In 2008 Penguin Books published a new trans lation of The Arabian Nights in a sumptu ous three-volume edition. The transla…

  • Searching for Cioran (review)

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2009

    Reviewed by: Searching for Cioran Willis Goth Regier (bio) Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston. Searching for Cioran. Edited by Kenneth R. Johnston. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. xxiv + 312 pages. Cioran is a writer who “thrived on catastrophe and contradiction,” a youthful megalomaniac who presumed he could screech Romania into glory and later feared his past would catch up with him. It has. When Cioran won fame in France, …

  • Requiem for Sanskrit

    Willis G RegierARTICLEWorld Literature Today2009

    There are a thousand paths to Indian lit erature, some of them new and gleaming. India's diaspora has produced much of the best of current English fiction. Salman Rushdie is a hero of our time; Arundhati Roy writes with nectars and rain; Vikram Seth runs through genres like a fox through hedgerows. Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies. The 2008 Booker Prize went to Aravid Ariga's The White Tiger. Some paths are ol…

  • In Praise of Flattery

    Willis G RegierBOOKIn Praise of Flattery2007

  • Cioran's Nietzsche

    Willis G RegierARTICLEFrench forum2005References: 3

    Cioran's Nietzsche Willis G. Regier Susan Sontag wrote that Cioran comes after Nietzsche, who set down almost the whole of Cioran's position a century ago. An interesting question: why does a subtle, powerful mind consent to say what has, for the most part, already been said? . . . Whatever the answer, the "fact" of Nietzsche has undeniable consequences for Cioran. He must tighten the screws, make the argument denser. More excruciating. More rhet…

  • The Mahabharata, volume 7 (review)

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2004

    Reviewed by: The Mahābhārata Willis G. Regier James L. Fitzgerald (translator and editor), The Mahābhārata, volume 7. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxii + 818 pages. In 1973 the University of Chicago Press published the first volume of what has come to be called the Chicago Mahābhārata. The project was intended to be a complete English translation of the Mahābhārata, the sprawling Sanskrit epic attributed to the marvelous Vyāsa, an…

  • Cioran's Insomnia

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2004

    Cioran’s Insomnia Willis G. Regier A career insomniac, Cioran made insomnia a laboratory, no easy place to work in well. In 1970 he told François Bondy that "I have never been able to write except in the melancholy of insomniac nights." In 1994 he told Michael Jakob that he considered his insomnia to be "the greatest experience" of his life. Cioran described "a tragedy that has lasted many years and which has marked me for the rest of my days. Al…

  • The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (review)

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes2000

    MLN - Volume 115, Number 5, December 2000 (Comparative Literature Issue)

  • The Ramayana of Valmiki. Volume 4. Kiskindhakanda, and: The Ramayana of Valmiki. Volume 5. Sundarakanda (review)

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes1997

    Reviewed by: The Ramayana of Valmiki. Volume 4. Kiskindhakanda, and: The Ramayana of Valmiki. Volume 5. Sundarakanda Willis G. Regier The Ramayana of Valmiki. Volume 4. Kiskindhakanda, trans. Rosalind Lefeber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, xvi + and 397 pages. Volume 5. Sundarakanda, trans. Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xviii + 583 pages. At the dramatic height of th…

  • Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach (review)

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes1997

    Reviewed by: Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach Willis G. Regier (bio) Seth Lerer, editor. Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xiv, 239 pages. In the epilogue of Mimesis Erich Auerbach mentions that his “book was written during the war and at Istanbul, where the libraries are not well equipped for European studies.” Hal…

  • Leo Strauss and Nietzsche, and: The Nietzsche Canon: A Publication History and Bibliography

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes1996

  • Between Philosophy and Social Science: Selected Early Writings, and: On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives

    Willis G RegierARTICLEModern Language Notes1995

    MLN - Volume 110, Number 4, September 1995 (Comparative Literature Issue)