Thomas Pavel
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Pavel is a literary theorist, critic, and novelist, who currently is Emeritus professor at the University of Chicago. Biography Thomas Pavel received an MA in Linguistics from the University of Bucharest in 1962 and a Doctorat 3e cycle from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, in 1971, after defecting to France in 1969. He taught at the University of Ottawa from 1971 to 1981, the University of Québec at Montréal from 1981 to 1986, the University of California Santa Cruz from 1986 to 1990, and Princeton University from 1990 to 1998. He was a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Since 1998, he has been teaching at the University of Chicago, where he is now Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Departments of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature. In 2021 he retired becoming Emeritus Professor at the University of Chicago.
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Published Works
- Medium Theory (2009) (111)
- "Possible Worlds" in Literary Semantics (1975) (57)
- Univers de la fiction (1988) (54)
- La pensée du roman (2003) (34)
- Literary Genres as Norms and Good Habits (2003) (33)
- Lettre d'Amérique: La liberté de parole en question (1995) (25)
- The Feud of Language: A History of Structuralist Thought (1989) (22)
- The Devil's Party: Critical Counter-Interpretations of Shakespearian Drama@@@The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama@@@The Poetics of Plot: The Case of English Renaissance Drama (1988) (21)
- The Poetics of Plot: The Case of English Renaissance Drama (1985) (20)
- Thematics: New Approaches (1995) (19)
- De Barthes à Balzac : fictions d'un critique, critiques d'une fiction (1998) (17)
- The Lives of the Novel: A History (2013) (15)
- Fiction and the causal theory of names (1979) (13)
- Fiction and Imitation (2000) (12)
- The Borders of Fiction (1983) (12)
- Concluding Statement. (1998) (11)
- Exile as Romance and as Tragedy (1996) (11)
- The Present Debate: News from France@@@"Notre Histoire: Materiaux Pour Servir a L'histoire Intellectuelle de la France, 1953-1987." (1989) (10)
- L'art de l'éloignement : essay sur l'imagination classique (1996) (9)
- Le mirage linguistique : essai sur la modernisation intellectuelle (1988) (9)
- Ontological Issues in Poetics: Speech Acts and Fictional Worlds (1981) (9)
- Formalism in Narrative Semiotics (1988) (7)
- Some remarks on narrative grammars (1973) (7)
- Fictional Worlds and the Economy of the Imaginary (1988) (6)
- Tragedy and the sacred: Notes towards a semantic characterization of a fictional genre☆ (1981) (5)
- La fin d'un anathème (1988) (5)
- Fiction and the Ontological Landscape (1981) (4)
- Incomplete Worlds, Ritual Emotions (2011) (4)
- The Heidegger Affair (1988) (4)
- Sémiotique et Sciences Sociales . By A.J. Greimas. Paris: Editions du Seuil. 1976. 216 pages. (1981) (4)
- Empire et paradigmes (1990) (3)
- The Event: Literature and Theory (2016) (3)
- Comment définir la fiction (2002) (3)
- La syntaxe narrative des tragédies de Corneille : recherches et propositions (1978) (3)
- Romanian Literature in Today’s World: Introduction (2018) (3)
- Poétique de la prose (Coll. Poétique) (1974) (3)
- Noun phrases: logical and linguistic properties (1976) (3)
- ONE. Between History and Fiction: On Dorrit Cohn’s Poetics of Prose (1991) (2)
- Søren Frank, Migration and Literature: Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad (2012) (2)
- Allusion et transparence sur « le code culturel» de Sarrasine (1996) (2)
- Freedom, from Romance to the Novel: Three Anti-Utopian American Critics. (1998) (2)
- Philosophy of the Novel (2016) (2)
- Plot-Structure and Style: Remarks on an Unstable Relationship (1982) (2)
- Immersion and distance in fictional worlds (2010) (2)
- Questions de style (1997) (2)
- "Phedre:" Outline of a Narrative Grammar. (1973) (2)
- L'Avenir de la sémio-linguistique: À propos d'une polémique récente (1986) (1)
- Le personnage : niveaux de vraisemblance (2018) (1)
- Poetics Of Plot (2017) (1)
- What Novels Speak About (2018) (1)
- Raconter, réfléchir, exhorter (2014) (1)
- The Links between Fiction and Rhetoric (2019) (1)
- S/Z: utopie et ascèse (1996) (1)
- L’ironie romanesque entre l’involontaire et l’échec : Une lecture de L’art du roman de Milan Kundera (2011) (1)
- Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy. Julia Caterina Hartley. Cambridge: Legenda, 2019. Pp. 143. (2020) (1)
- L'esthétique, le romantisme et la démocratie (1993) (1)
- Sujet, Idéalité, Langage. Réflexions sur les premiers écrits de Derrida in French Studies. (1987) (1)
- Comment écouter la littérature (2006) (1)
- Human action in narrative grammars (2016) (1)
- Poetics Of Plot (2017) (1)
- L'Arrière-texte: pour repenser le littéraire (2014) (1)
- Angus Fletcher: Wonderworks. The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature (2022) (1)
- Fiction, Fact, Phalanx, Phantasm@@@Fictional Worlds (1989) (0)
- Safely Watching Wild Adventures (2015) (0)
- Jeux de dispersion, illusion de la correspondance (1987) (0)
- Stefano Ercolino, The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947 (2015) (0)
- The Literary Mind. Mark Turner (1999) (0)
- Core essay. What is realism? (2021) (0)
- Romanesques. 2013, Hors-série. Europe du roman, romans de l’Europe (2013) (0)
- The Limits of Curricular Action (2001) (0)
- The Polyphonic World of Cervantes and Dostoevsky by Slav N. Gratchev (review) (2019) (0)
- Fictional Worlds@@@The Ethics of Criticism (1990) (0)
- The Taste and the Heart – Revisiting Clement Greenberg (2014) (0)
- Gerald Prince and Narrative Studies (2014) (0)
- Representational Games: Constant and Flaubert (1985) (0)
- Multicultural (con)fusions (2013) (0)
- Rigor and Imprecision in Literary Studies (2020) (0)
- A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclassicism and the Novel. Karin Kukkonen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. vi+263. (2018) (0)
- Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce by Leonardo Lisi (review) (2015) (0)
- Lettre d'Amérique (1995) (0)
- The Balzac Review /Revue Balzac (2018) (0)
- The Source of Meaning of Literary Works: From the Perspective of 20th Century Western Literary History (2017) (0)
- Ugo Foscolo’s Tragic Vision in Italy and England (2017) (0)
- Laughter and compassion (2016) (0)
- Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature.Timothy Hampton (1992) (0)
- Planning Games@@@Fictional Worlds (1988) (0)
- Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. Jan Alber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Pp. xi+310. (2017) (0)
- Interest and Immersion: Response to James Phelan's Target Essay "Authors, Resources, Audiences" (2018) (0)
- Cervantes' «Don Quixote»: ambition and talent (2010) (0)
- Reworkings (1997) (0)
- Review of Didier Souiller and Wladimir Troubetzkoy's Littérature comparée (1999) (0)
- Une anthropologie artiste (1998) (0)
- Department of Comparative Literature (2007) (0)
- Pride and sorrow in Embers by Sándor Márai (2013) (0)
- A Story with Characters and Action (2022) (0)
- Forms of insubordination in the novella (2017) (0)
- Truth and resonance (2016) (0)
- The spell of language : poststructuralizm and speculation (2001) (0)
- Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (review) (2000) (0)
- Pablo Maurette, The Forgotten Sense. Meditations on Touch (2019) (0)
- The Spirit of Conquest Among Intellectuals (1993) (0)
- Cross-Border Authority and Local Power: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Roman Catholic Index (2017) (0)
- Russian Liberals: Criticism of the Current Stage of Russia's Foreign Policy (2015) (0)
- Univers de la fiction / Thomas Pavel (2017) (0)
- Univers de la fiction / Thomas Pavel (2017) (0)
- The Event: Literature and Theory by Ilai Rowner (review) (2016) (0)
- Reflections on the History of the Novel (2002) (0)
- Reasons for Action (2008) (0)
- Critical Latitude (2016) (0)
- COMMENT ON DEVIENT POST-STRUCTURALISTE : LE CAS DE ROLAND BARTHES (1996) (0)
- Catherine Gallagher. Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. 416 pp. (2020) (0)
- Empire and Paradigms (1990) (0)
- In Praise of the Ear (Gloss's Glosses) (1985) (0)
- Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France: The Making of an Intellectual Generation by Johannes Angermuller (review) (2017) (0)
- Appels, paris, promesses (2004) (0)
- Mont-Royal de Robert Marteau (Éd. Gallimard) (1982) (0)
- Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage (review) (2012) (0)
- Racine and Stendhal (1989) (0)
- Shiny Stars, Silent Calls (2013) (0)
- Phenomenology and Literature, An Introduction . By Robert R. Magliola, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. 1977. xi, 208 pages. (1980) (0)
- Historicism and Beyond - Balzac Seen by a Foreign Critic, Ernst Robert Curtius (2018) (0)
- La Fleur bleue et son terroir (2013) (0)
- Time in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel by Helen Tattam (review) (2014) (0)
- L'unité du monde dans le théâtre de Claudel (2011) (0)
- Vengeance et chemin de la vie (2013) (0)
- Biogenèse de l'erythropoïétine. I. Effet du blocage du SRE sur l'élaboration de l'érythropoïétine. (1971) (0)
- De l'esprit de conquête chez les intellectuels (1993) (0)
- « Ce lien entre lui et moi », Le Soulier de satin, I,V (2021) (0)
- Corrigendum to: L’Écriture vive: Woolf, Sarraute, une autre phénoménologie de la perception. Par Naomi Toth (2019) (0)
- Cahiers de l'Est (1976) (0)
- Agénor, Agénor, Agénor et Agénor, La tribu (Éd. Quinze)La tribu, (Éd. Libre Expression) de François Barcelo (1982) (0)
- Séditions infrapaginales: poétique historique de l’annotation littéraire (XVIIe–XXIe siècles) by Andréas Pfersmann (review) (2013) (0)
- La part de l’auteur dans l’histoire du roman (2002) (0)
- Désir d’excellence, souci de vérité (2013) (0)
- La force de partir (2005) (0)
- Mondes possibles et classicisme (1996) (0)
- Proustian Cosmology@@@Proust: Philosophie du roman (1990) (0)
- Les oeuvres littéraires parlent de nous (2007) (0)
- Les fins adieux suivi de La vengeance (1984) (0)
- Tout contre Sainte-Beuve: l'inspiration retrouvée (2014) (0)
- Un éloge de la délibération (1999) (0)
- Les Liens humains dans la littérature : XVIe-XVIIe siècles (2012) (0)
- Tout contre Sainte-Beuve: l’inspiration retrouvée by Donatien Grau (review) (2014) (0)
- Rhétorique et transcendance chez Pascal in La rhétorique aujourd'hui. (1990) (0)
- Réflexions sur l'histoire du roman (2002) (0)
- Savoir & style (2022) (0)
- Paul Claudel, aujourd’hui (2020) (0)
- Érudition et fiction. Troisième rencontre internationale Paul-Zumthor, Montréal, 13-15 octobre 2011 (2014) (0)
- Mutations et équilibres dans la critique française récente (1995) (0)
- La fille aux cheveux de lin (récit) (1985) (0)
- Poétiques de la vengeance. De la passion à l’action (2013) (0)
- Marcel Gauchet et les tribulations de la démocratie (2003) (0)
- Douceur de vivre, dureté de l'histoire (2003) (0)
- Parole sacrée et action politique : « Athalie » de Racine (1973) (0)
- Comprendre l’inhabituel, de Boileau à Droysen (2012) (0)
- Les genres littéraires : entre normes et bonnes habitudes (2005) (0)
- Les utopies linguistiques (2001) (0)
- L'idéal romanesque (2003) (0)
- L'Écriture vive: Woolf, Sarraute, une autre phénoménologie du personnage by Naomi Toth (review) (2017) (0)
- Postulats narratifs et rythme sémantique (1979) (0)
- Suis-je un récit ? Réflexions sur la notion d’identité narrative (2013) (0)
- Études générales et spécialisation (2011) (0)
- La mesure de la pastorale (2009) (0)
- Le miroir persan (1978) (0)
- De la sémantique mystique (1985) (0)
- La Princesse de Clèves : histoire et singularité (2017) (0)
- Confusion des langues, métaphysique des erreurs (1979) (0)
- Rodogune. Jeu rituel (1988) (0)
- Biographies et exemplarité (2018) (0)
- L’Arrière-texte: pour repenser le littéraire by Marie-Madeleine Gladieu, Jean-Michel Pottier, Alain Trouvé (review) (2014) (0)
- Les belles lettres au service des mœurs (1997) (0)
- Le roman est-il un art du langage ? (2002) (0)
- Le déracinement selon Simone Weil et Gabriel Marcel (2019) (0)
- The Balzac Review / Revue Balzac. 2018, n° 1. Balzac et l’étranger (2018) (0)
- Hésitations de voix (1974) (0)
- Shakespeare et Cervantès : le rendez-vous a-t-il eu lieu ? (2012) (0)
- L'art du mépris (2006) (0)
- La Syntaxe narrative des tragedies de Corneille@@@Essai sur la mythologie du Cid (1980) (0)
- Simone Weil, réception et transposition (2019) (0)
- Philosophy of the Novel by Alan H. Goldman (review) (2015) (0)
- Time in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel (2014) (0)
- Natural Sciences and Narrative Imagination—A Review of Ian Duncan, Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution (2021) (0)
- Pride and sorrow in Embers by Sándor Márai (2013) (0)
- Proust under the Covers (2020) (0)
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