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Gerald J. Prince (born November 7, 1942, in Alexandria, Egypt) is an American academic and literary theoretician. He is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, [1] where he is also affiliated with the department of Linguistics and the Program in Comparative Literature and with the Annenberg School for Communication.

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Prince received his Ph.D. from Brown University (1968). He is a leading scholar of narrative poetics and he has helped to shape the discipline of narratology, developing key concepts such as the narratee, narrativity, the disnarrated, and narrative grammar. [2] In addition to his theoretical work, he is a distinguished critic of contemporary French literature and is regarded as an authority on the French novel of the twentieth century. [3]

Prince's writings in French and English have been translated into many other languages, and he has been a visiting professor at universities in France, Belgium, Italy, Australia, and Canada, as well as the United States. He is the General Editor of the "Stages" series at the University of Nebraska Press, [4] and he serves on more than a dozen other editorial and advisory boards. In 2013 he received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative, [5] an organization that he presided over in 2007.

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References

  1. ↑ "Gerald J. Prince | French and Francophone Studies". www.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
  2. ↑ Pavel, Thomas (2014). "Gerald Prince and Narrative Studies". Narrative. 22 (3): 298–303. doi:10.1353/nar.2014.0023. S2CID   162185559. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
  3. ↑ Day, James T. (2002-01-01). "Guide du roman de langue francaise (1901-1950) (review)". French Forum. 27 (3): 121–123. doi:10.1353/frf.2003.0015. ISSN   1534-1836. S2CID   194059748.
  4. ↑ "University of Nebraska Press". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
  5. ↑ "ISSN | Awards | The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award | 2013". narrative.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
  6. ↑ Prince, Gérald Joseph (1968-01-01). Métaphysique et technique dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Sartre (in French). Genève: Droz. OCLC   77131014.
  7. ↑ Prince, Gerald Joseph (1973-01-01). A grammar of stories: an introduction. The Hague; Paris: Mouton. OCLC   750565753.
  8. ↑ Prince, Gerald (1982-01-01). Narratology: the form and functioning of narrative. Berlin; New York: Mouton. OCLC   8388782.
  9. ↑ Prince, Gerald (1987-01-01). A dictionary of narratology . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN   9780803236783. OCLC   15109449.
  10. ↑ Prince, Gerald (1992-01-01). Narrative as theme studies in French fiction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  11. ↑ Motte, Warren F; Prince, Gerald; Alter, Jean (1993-01-01). Alteratives. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum. OCLC   28214252.
  12. ↑ Bowman, Frank Paul; Donaldson-Evans, Mary; Frappier-Mazur, Lucienne; Prince, Gerald (1994-01-01). Autobiography, historiography, rhetoric: a festschrift in honor of Frank Paul Bowman. Amsterdam; Atlanta: Rodopi. OCLC   31350313.
  13. ↑ Frappier-Mazur, Lucienne; Nesci, Catherine; Van Slyke, Gretchen Jane; Prince, Gerald (1999-01-01). Corps/décors: femmes, orgie, parodie : hommage à Lucienne Frappier-Mazur. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. OCLC   43261449.
  14. ↑ Prince, Gerald; DalMolin, Eliane Françoise; Célestin, Roger (2002-01-01). Eroticisms = Erotismes. Reading, Berks.: Routledge. OCLC   49763652.
  15. ↑ Prince, Gerald (2002-01-01). Guide du roman de langue française. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. OCLC   49891329.
  16. ↑ Prince, Gerald; Bedrane, Sabrinelle; Blanckeman, Bruno (2016-01-01). Résurgence = Oubli. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  17. ↑ Geographical Narratology. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter. 2018-01-01.
  18. ↑ Prince, Gerald (2019-01-01). Guide du roman de langue française. Paris.: Vérone.

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