Gabriel Josipovici | Academic Influence

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According to Wikipedia, Gabriel David Josipovici is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright. He is an Emeritus professor, after having been Professor at the University of Sussex. Biography He was born in Nice, France in 1940, of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine Jewish parents. He lived out the war years in a village in the Massif Central and when the war ended in 1945 his mother returned with him to Egypt, where she was born. There he was educated at Victoria College, Cairo, until in 1956 he and his mother emigrated to England, where he finished his schooling at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1961 with a First Class degree, and in 1963 he joined the School of European Studies at the newly-formed University of Sussex. He retired from Sussex in 1998 to devote himself to writing. He gave the Northcliffe Lectures at the University of London in 1981-2 and was Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford in 1996-7. He has published nineteen novels, three volumes of stories and a number of critical books, as well as a memoir of his mother, the poet and translator Sacha Rabinovitch. Carcanet Press has published his work since his novel Contre Jour in 1986. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in France and Germany, and his work has been translated into many languages, including French and Arabic. In 2001 he published A Life, a biographical memoir of his mother, the translator and poet Sacha Rabinovitch. In 2007 Gabriel Josipovici gave the University of London Coffin Lecture on Literature; the lecture was entitled "What ever happened to Modernism?" and was subsequently published as a book by Yale University Press.

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Gabriel Josipovici's Published Works

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Published Works

The world and the book: A study of modern fiction (1979) (42)
The Book of God: A Response to the Bible (1988) (37)
On trust : art and the temptations of suspicion (2001) (27)
What Ever Happened to Modernism (2010) (26)
On Trust (1999) (24)
Writing and the Body (1982) (23)
The Modern English novel : the reader, the writer, and the work (1976) (23)
The world and the book (1971) (20)
The siren's song : selected essays (1982) (13)
The lessons of modernism and other essays (1977) (11)
Fiction and Game in The Canterbury Tales (1965) (8)
Touch: An Essay (1996) (6)
To be reckoned with (1995) (6)
Text and Voice: Essays 1981-1991 (1992) (5)
Lolita: Parody and the Pursuit of Beauty (1964) (5)
The Lessons of Modernism (1987) (5)
Music and literary form (1989) (4)
Rethinking memory : Too much/too little (1998) (4)
Writing, Reading, and the Study of Literature* (1989) (3)
Hamlet: Fold on Fold (2016) (2)
Contre-Jour: A triptych after Pierre Bonnard (1986) (2)
The Rake's Progress: Some thoughts on the Libretto (1975) (2)
Georges Perec's Homage to Joyce (And Tradition) (1985) (2)
Words: A novel (1971) (2)
30@30: the future of literary thinking (2016) (2)
The Bible in Focus (1990) (2)
Hawthorne's Modernity (1966) (2)
The big glass (1991) (1)
An Art for the Wilderness: Franz Kafka, 1883–1924 (1987) (1)
The Portable Saul Bellow (1974) (1)
Rabelais: Language and Laughter (1994) (1)
Chaucer: The Teller and the Tale (1994) (1)
Modernism and Romanticism (1994) (1)
English Studies and European Culture (1987) (1)
Golding: The Hidden Source (1994) (1)
Showy but not telling (1993) (1)
The superstition of fact (1999) (1)
Thirty-Three Variations on a Theme of Graham Greene (1997) (1)
The Importance of Stockhausen’s Inori (1987) (0)
International books of the year--and the millennium (1999) (0)
Thinking on Thresholds: When I Begin I have Already Begun (2011) (0)
What are Jews for? (2022) (0)
Thoughts on Kafka, February 1984 (2013) (0)
The Collected Stories (1993) (0)
The Opinion of Pythagoras (2017) (0)
The World as a Book (1994) (0)
Ravel on tour (2006) (0)
ANGELS OF HISTORY (2013) (0)
The singular best (1993) (0)
The echo chamber (1980) (0)
Hawthorne: Allegory and Compulsion (1994) (0)
Maxwell Davies’s Taverner: Thoughts on the Libretto (1987) (0)
A Dante for today (1997) (0)
In the midst of Yiddish (1998) (0)
Heart's Wings: & Other Stories (2011) (0)
Literary Relativity: An Essay on Twentieth-Century Narrative@@@The Reflexive Novel: Fiction as Critique@@@The Mirror of Criticism: Selected Reviews, 1977-1982 (1987) (0)
The dream fulfilled (1993) (0)
Review. Unreal City. Urban Experience in Modern European Literature and Art. Timms, Edward, and Kelley, David (eds) (1986) (0)
Surfaces and Structures (1994) (0)
He Contemplates a Photograph in a Newspaper (2019) (0)
Taverner: Thoughts on the Libretto (1972) (0)
In a hotel garden (1993) (0)
Nabokov's hidden humanity (1994) (0)
JEWS FACE THE MILLENNIUM (2013) (0)
Structures of Truth:The Premises of the French New Criticism (1968) (0)
SECULARISTS TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE (2013) (0)
Proust: A Voice in Search of Itself* (1971) (0)
Caught in Between (2016) (0)
The Poet, the Fathers and the Book (1998) (0)
Herzog: Freedom and Wit (1994) (0)
Stravinsky and His Craft: Trends in Stravinsky Criticism and Research (1983) (0)
BOOK AND WRITERS (2013) (0)
Describing the Present (1982) (0)
The meaning is the music (2005) (0)
Tree, cow, diner, hairdresser (2005) (0)
A Remembered Future: A Study in Literary Mythology@@@Centre and Labyrinth: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye (1987) (0)
Revue: Extract from Hotel Andromeda (2013) (0)
An open Book (2006) (0)
Fernando Pessoa, 1888–1935 (1987) (0)
Conversations in another room (1984) (0)
Humbert and Kinbote (2005) (0)
Echoes and Mirrorings () by Monika Fludernik is the first monograph on the contemporary British novelist and playwright (2002) (0)
Two Moments in Modern Music-Theatre (1987) (0)
Book Review:Narrative and Discourse in the Book of Genesis Hugh C. White (1993) (0)
Brexit and the imagination (2018) (0)
Words and Music Today (1987) (0)
To age into a child (2003) (0)
Modern/Modernist@@@The Lessons of Modernism and Other Essays@@@The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature@@@Style in Modern British Fiction: Studies in Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Lewis, and Green (1978) (0)
Mary and Phoebe (2013) (0)
Brothers (2019) (0)
The mirror of criticism (1983) (0)
Linearity and Fragmentation (1987) (0)
A leap into the blue (1995) (0)
KIERKEGAARD ET LE ROMAN (2010) (0)
Truth and beauty buried be (1997) (0)
Two Novels:after and making mistakes (2009) (0)
Some Thoughts on the Rise of the Novel (1994) (0)
A LIFE: Sacha Rabinovitch (1910–96) (2013) (0)
Stray thoughts at dawn (2003) (0)
I suppose that what I would like to be able to write is something where the piece is so vulnerable that if it were life we could not bear it. (2013) (0)

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University of Sussex