David Roessel

Biographic Data

ID	953789
NAME	David Roessel
GIVEN NAMES	David
FAMILY NAME	Roessel
SIGNATURE	ROESSEL D
AFFILIATIONS	Science Oxford
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	7
TOTAL CITATIONS	31
WORKS AS AUTHOR	7
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2023
H-INDEX	1

Introduction to “Dialogue on Democracy”
David Roessel, Megan CoatesARTICLEThe Langston Hughes Review2023
On June 2, 1939, Langston Hughes gave a lecture at the Third International Writers’ Conference in New York entitled “Democracy and Me.” To that audience, Hughes said that when in Europe he had spoken “first as an American and a writer, and second as a Negro.” But in America, “I feel it was in the interest of democracy to reverse the order and to speak primarily as a Negro and a writer, and secondarily as an American—because Negroes are secondary …
Writing the Greek Revolution
Open AccessDavid RoesselARTICLEEuropean Journal of American…2022References: 7
Petrakis’s novels about the Greek Revolution are the most significant efforts by an American author, in this case a Greek American author, to place the narrative of the struggle in front of an American public. This paper uses the journal that Petrakis kept while writing The Hour of the Bell to examine his thoughts and motives in the composition of the book, with close attention to Petrakis’s reading of the American philhellene Samuel Gridley Howe…
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Yvonne Fonteneau, Arnold Rampersad et al.REVIEWWorld Literature Today1996
Ion
David Roessel, H D Hilda Doolittle et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1988
A Note on Scholarly Attribution
David RoesselARTICLEThe Classical World1987
The Athenian Ecclesia
David Roessel, Mogens Herman HansenARTICLEThe Classical World1986Cited by: 31
The first volume of The Athenian Ecclesia covers the author's articles on the subject in the period 1976-1983 on the working and functioning of the Athenian assembly. The book covers a variety of elements in the discussion of the Ecclesia, such as how many members the assembly consisted of, how they met and voted, concepts of nomos, psephisma, demos, dicasterion, and a comparative analysis on the Ecclesia and the Swiss Landsgemeinde
Demos
David RoesselREVIEWThe Classical World1986

The Athenian Ecclesia
David Roessel, Mogens Herman HansenARTICLEThe Classical World1986Cited by: 31
The first volume of The Athenian Ecclesia covers the author's articles on the subject in the period 1976-1983 on the working and functioning of the Athenian assembly. The book covers a variety of elements in the discussion of the Ecclesia, such as how many members the assembly consisted of, how they met and voted, concepts of nomos, psephisma, demos, dicasterion, and a comparative analysis on the Ecclesia and the Swiss Landsgemeinde
Demos
David RoesselREVIEWThe Classical World1986
A Note on Scholarly Attribution
David RoesselARTICLEThe Classical World1987
Ion
David Roessel, H D Hilda Doolittle et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1988
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Yvonne Fonteneau, Arnold Rampersad et al.REVIEWWorld Literature Today1996
Writing the Greek Revolution
Open AccessDavid RoesselARTICLEEuropean Journal of American…2022References: 7
Petrakis’s novels about the Greek Revolution are the most significant efforts by an American author, in this case a Greek American author, to place the narrative of the struggle in front of an American public. This paper uses the journal that Petrakis kept while writing The Hour of the Bell to examine his thoughts and motives in the composition of the book, with close attention to Petrakis’s reading of the American philhellene Samuel Gridley Howe…
Introduction to “Dialogue on Democracy”
David Roessel, Megan CoatesARTICLEThe Langston Hughes Review2023
On June 2, 1939, Langston Hughes gave a lecture at the Third International Writers’ Conference in New York entitled “Democracy and Me.” To that audience, Hughes said that when in Europe he had spoken “first as an American and a writer, and second as a Negro.” But in America, “I feel it was in the interest of democracy to reverse the order and to speak primarily as a Negro and a writer, and secondarily as an American—because Negroes are secondary …