Henri Peyre

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Henri Peyre (born February 21, 1901 in Paris , † December 9, 1988 in Norwalk (Connecticut )) was an American Romance scholar and literary scholar of French origin.

life and work

Peyre studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure , as well as at the Sorbonne and passed the Agrégation in 1924. From 1925 to 1928 he taught at Bryn Mawr College , from 1928 to 1933 at Yale University . In 1931 he completed his habilitation in Paris with the two Thèses Louis Ménard, 1822-1901 (New Haven 1932) and Bibliographie critique de l'hellénisme en France, 1843-1870 (New Haven 1932). From 1933 to 1936 he taught in Cairo. From 1938 until his retirement in 1969 he was Sterling Professor of French at Yale University, from 1969 to 1980 he still taught at the City University of New York .

Peyre was chairman of the Modern Language Association in 1960. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a. the Legion of Honor. In 1953 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 1957 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

  • (Ed.) Lettres inédites de Louis Ménard , Paris 1932
  • Qu'est-ce que le classicisme? Essai de mise au point , Paris 1933, 1942, 1964, 1967, 1971, 1983 (Spanish México 1953)
  • Shelley et la France. Lyrisme anglais et lyrisme français au XIXe siècle , Cairo 1935
  • Hommes et oeuvres du XXe siècle , Paris 1938
  • L'influence des littératures antiques sur la littérature française modern. État des travaux , New Haven 1941, 1973
  • Le classicisme français , New York 1942
  • Writers and Their Critics: A Study of Misunderstanding , New York 1944 (ud T. The Failures of Criticism , 1967)
  • Les Générations littéraires , Paris 1948
  • (Ed.) Pensées de Baudelaire , Paris 1951
  • Connaissance de Baudelaire , Paris 1951
  • The Contemporary French Novel , Oxford 1955 (and T. French Novelists of Today , 1967)
  • Observations on Life, Literature and Learning in America (essays), Carbondale, Ill., 1961
  • (Ed.) Baudelaire, a collection of critical essays , Englewood Cliffs 1962
  • Literature and Sincerity , New Haven 1963
  • Splendors of Christendom , Time-Life Books, 1964
  • The Literature of France , Englewood Cliffs 1965
  • (Ed.) Gustave Lanson, Essais de méthode, de critique et d'histoire , Paris 1965
  • French novelists of today , New York 1967
  • Historical and Critical Essays , Lincoln, Neb. 1968
  • Jean Paul Sartre , Columbia University Press, 1968
  • Renan , Paris 1969
  • Marcel Proust , New York / London 1970
  • (Ed.) Fiction in Several Languages , Houghton, 1968
  • Hugo, Paris 1972 (English: Victor Hugo. Philosophy and Poetry, University of Alabama Press 1980)
  • Qu'est-ce que le romantisme ?, Paris 1972, 1979 (Spanish: Madrid 1972; English: What Is Romanticism ?, University of Alabama Press 1977)
  • Renan et la Grèce , Paris 1973
  • Qu'est-ce que le symbolisme ?, Paris 1974 (English: What Is Symbolism ?, University of Alabama Press 1980; Polish Warsaw 1990)
  • French literary imagination and Dostoevsky and other essays , University of Alabama Press 1975
  • Rimbaud vu par Verlaine , Paris 1975
  • La Littérature symboliste , Paris 1976, 1987

literature

  • The Classical line. Essays in honor of Henri Peyre , New Haven 1967
  • The persistent voice. Essays on Hellenism in French literature since the 18th century, in Honor of Professor Henri M. Peyre , ed. by Walter G. Langlois, Geneva 1971
  • La Littérature devant l'histoire. Essays in honor of Henri Peyre , ed. by Bettina L. Knapp in: Nineteenth-century French studies 5, n ° 1-2, 1976-77 (special issue with list of publications)
  • Writing in a Modern Temper. Essays on French Literature and Thought in Honor of Henri Peyre , ed. by Mary Ann Caws, Saratoga, CA 1984
  • New York Times , December 10, 1988; February 10, 1989
  • Chicago Tribune December 11, 1988
  • André Malraux and Cultural Diversity. Essays in Honor of Henri Peyre , ed. by Françoise-E. Dorenlot and Robert S. Thornberry, Edmonton 1994
  • Henri Peyre. His Life in Letters , ed. by John W. Kneller, New Haven 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Peyre, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peyre, Henri Maurice; Peyre, Henri M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-French Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1988
Place of death Norwalk (Connecticut)