Alison Fairlie

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Alison Anna Bowie Fairlie (born May 23, 1917 in Lerwick , † February 21, 1993 in Cambridge ) was a British Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Alison Fairlie attended schools in Ardrossan , Dumfries and the Rydal Penrhos School in Colwyn Bay , and from 1935 studied with Gustave Rudler at St Hugh's College, Oxford. After a stay in Paris, she received her doctorate in 1943 with the work Leconte de Lisle's poems on the barbarian races (Cambridge 1947) and taught at Girton College in Cambridge. There she was a Fellow (from 1946), Lecturer for French (from 1948), Reader (from 1967) and Professor of French from 1972 to 1980.

Alison Fairlie became an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College Oxford in 1972 and a member of the British Academy in 1984 .

Other works

  • Baudelaire, «  Les Fleurs du mal  ». A Study , London 1960, 1969, 1975
  • Flaubert, "  Madame Bovary  ", London 1962, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1983
  • Imagination and language. Collected essays on Constant, Baudelaire, Nerval and Flaubert , ed. by Malcolm Bowie, Cambridge 1981 (in it “Constant romancier”, pp. 61–70, “admirable article” according to François Rosset: La triade amoureuse du romancier Constant, in: Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études francaises 48, 1996, p . 337–354, note 3)

literature

  • Words of power. Essays in honor of Alison Fairlie , ed. by Dorothy Gabe Coleman and Gillian Jondorf, Glasgow 1987
  • The Independent March 3, 1993
  • Malcolm Bowie: Alison Anna Bowie Fairlie, 1917-1993 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 84 , 1994, pp. 281-292 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

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personal data
SURNAME Fairlie, Alison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fairlie, Alison Anna Bowie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Lerwick
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1993
Place of death Cambridge