Gregory L. Lucente

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Gregory L. Lucente (born 1948 in Illinois ; † June 26, 1997 ) was an American Romance scholar, Italianist and literary scholar.

life and work

Lucente studied at Yale University and Middlebury College (Masters Degree 1973). He received his PhD in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with the work Realism and myth in modern narrative. Verga, Lawrence, Faulkner, Pavese (published and T. The Narrative of Realism and Myth. Verga. Lawrence. Falkner. Pavese , Baltimore 1981). He taught at Loyola University Chicago and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , where he was a full professor from 1987. From 1988 he was professor of Italian at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor .

Lucente died in a traffic accident.

Other works

  • Beautiful fables. Self-Consciousness in Italian Narrative from Manzoni to Calvino , Baltimore 1986 (Italian: Bellissime fiabe , Lecce 1995)
  • Over the Mountain , Michigan 1996 (novel)
  • (Ed.) Italian criticism. Literature and culture , Ann Arbor 1996
  • Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism. Italy and the United States , Stanford 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Lucente, Gregory L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucente, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist, Italianist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Illinois
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1997