Michael Riffaterre
Literary critic, Author
1924 – 2006
Who was Michael Riffaterre?
Michael or Michel Riffaterre was an influential French literary critic and theorist. He pursued a generally structuralist approach. He is well known in particular for his book Semiotics of Poetry, and the concepts of hypogram and syllepsis.
He was born in Bourganeuf, in the Limousin region of France. After receiving the concours général prize in French literature he went on to study at the University of Lyon. After World War II he entered the Sorbonne, where he earned his M.A. in classics in 1947, and then became a doctoral student at Columbia University, earning his Ph.D. there in 1955, and remained for his entire academic career. He served as the chairman of the Department of French from 1974-1983. In 1982 he became a University Professor, the highest professorial rank at Columbia.
Riffaterre was a Guggenheim Fellow twice, a fellow at Oxford, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an officer in the order of the palmes académiques, and held honorary degrees from the Université Blaise-Pascal as well as the Sorbonne.
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- Born
- Nov 20, 1924
Bourganeuf - Also known as
- Michel Riffaterre
- Nationality
- France
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Columbia University
French literature
( - 1955)
- PhD, Columbia University
- Employment
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Manhattan
( - 2006/05/27)
- Manhattan
- Died
- May 27, 2006
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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