Germaine Brée

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Germaine Brée (born October 2, 1907 in Lasalle, Gard département , † September 22, 2001 in Winston-Salem ) was an American Romance studies and literary scholar of French origin.

life and work

Germaine Brée was born in the south of France to a Protestant Francophone mother and an Anglophone father. She spent a large part of her childhood in the English-speaking Channel Islands of Guernsey (1912-1917) and Jersey (1917-1922). She studied from 1922 to 1926 in Nîmes (Ecole normal), from 1926 to 1931 in Paris, from 1931 to 1932 at Bryn Mawr College and in 1932 she was the Agrégation d'Anglais. From 1932 to 1936 she taught in Oran .

Then she went back to the United States and taught from 1936 at Bryn Mawr College (first as a lecturer, later as a professor, 1943-1945 interrupted by voluntary service in the French army). From 1953 she held the chair of French at New York University (Washington Square College) and was head of the department from 1954. From 1960 to 1973 she taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison as Vilas Professor in the Institute for Research in the Humanities, from 1973 to her retirement in 1984 as Kenan Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, and also as a visiting professor at the Princeton University, Williams College, and Ohio State University.

She had been a US citizen since 1952. In 1954 she founded the La Maison Française cultural center in New York. In 1965 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 1972 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1975 she was chair of the Modern Language Association. Germaine Brée has received numerous honors and awards, including a. the Legion of Honor .

Works

author

  • You 'Temps perdu' au 'Temps retrouvé'. Introduction à l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust , Paris 1950, 1969 (English: Marcel Proust and deliverance from time, New Brunswick 1955, Westport 1981)
  • André Gide. L'insaisissable Protée. Etude critique de l'oeuvre d'André Gide , Paris 1953, 1970, ud T. Gide, New Brunswick 1963
  • (with Margaret Guiton) An age of fiction. The French novel from Gide to Camus , New Brunswick 1957 (German: Aufstand des Geistes. The phenomenon of French literature from Gide to Camus , Munich 1960)
  • Camus. A critical study , New Brunswick 1959, 1964 (German: Albert Camus. Gestalt und Werk , Reinbek 1960)
  • Camus. A collection of critical essays , Englewood Cliffs 1962
  • Albert Camus , New York / London 1964
  • The World of Marcel Proust , Boston / London 1967
  • Women writers in France. Variations on a theme , New Brunswick 1971
  • Camus and Sartre. Crisis and commitment , New York 1972
  • Narcissus absconditus. The problematic art of autobiography in contemporary France , Oxford 1978
  • Le XXe siècle. 2, 1920-1970 , Paris 1978 (Littérature française 16, edited by Claude Pichois) (English: Twentieth-century French literature , Chicago / London 1983)
  • (with Édouard Morot-Sir) Du Surréalisme à l'empire de la critique , Paris 1984, 1990, 1996 (Littérature française 9, edited by Claude Pichois)
  • Le monde fabuleux de JMG Le Clézio , Amsterdam 1990

editor

  • (Ed. With Carlos Lynes, jr.) Marcel Proust. Combray , New York 1952
  • (Ed. With Carlos Lynes, jr.) Albert Camus, L'Etranger , New York 1955, London 1970
  • (Ed. With Charles Carlut) France de nos jours , New York 1957, 1962
  • (Ed. With Anne Prioleau Jones) Hier et aujourd'hui. Premières lectures littéraires , New York 1958
  • (Ed.) Twentieth century French literature. An anthology of prose & poetry , New York 1962
  • (Ed. With Micheline Dufau) Voix d'aujourd'hui , New York 1964
  • (Ed. With Alexander Y. Kroff) Twentieth century French drama , New York 1969
  • (Ed. With George Bernauer) Defeat and beyond. An anthology of French wartime writing 1940-1945 , New York 1970
  • (Ed. With Georges Markow-Totevy) Contes et nouvelles 1950-1970 , New York 1970
  • (Ed.) Albert Camus, La Chute , Paris 1986

literature

  • Twentieth century French fiction. Essays for Germaine Brée , ed. by George Stambolian. Foreword by Henri Peyre, New Brunswick 1975 (with list of publications)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Germaine Brée. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brée, Germaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance studies and literary scholar of French origin
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Lasalle
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 2001
Place of death Winston-Salem