About Laurence de Looze Laurence de Looze is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Western Ontario. Books by Laurence de Looze The Letter and the Cosmos How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World by (author) Laurence de Looze Egil, the Viking Poet New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga' edited by Laurence de Looze, Jon Karl Helgason, Russell Poole & Torfi H. Tulinius