John Porter Houston

John Porter Houston (born April 21, 1933 in Alhambra , California , † October 13, 1987 in Bloomington , Indiana ) was an American Romanist .

life and work

Houston studied at the University of California at Berkeley and in Aix-en-Provence . He received his doctorate from Yale University in 1959 with the thesis The design of Rimbaud 's poetry (New Haven / London 1963, Westport 1977) and was Professor of French and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington until his untimely death .

Other works

• (Ed. With Mona Tobin Houston) François Mauriac, Génitrix , Englewood Cliffs 1966
• The demonic imagination. Style and theme in French romantic poetry , Baton Rouge 1969
• Fictionnal technique in France 1802-1927. An introduction , Baton Rouge 1972
• Victor Hugo , New York 1974, 1988, 1999
• French Symbolism and the modernist movement. A study of poetic structures , Baton Rouge 1980
• (Ed. And translator with Mona Tobin Houston) French symbolist poetry. An anthology , Bloomington 1980
• The Traditions of French prose style. A rhetorical study , Baton Rouge 1981
• The Shape and style of Proust's novel , Detroit 1982
• The Rhetoric of poetry in the Renaissance and seventeenth century , Baton Rouge 1983
• Patterns of thought in Rimbaud and Mallarmé , Lexington 1986
• Shakespearean sentences. A study in style and syntax , Baton Rouge 1988
• Joyce and prose. An exploration of the language of "Ulysses" , Lewisburg / London 1989

literature

• New York Times October 21, 1987
• The shaping of text. Style, imagery, and structure in French literature. Essays in honor of John Porter Houston , ed. by Emanuel J. Mickel, Lewisburg / London 1993

Web links

• Literature by and about John Porter Houston in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/bfc/view?docId=B30-1988&chunk.id=d1e97&toc.id=&brand=bfc (obituary of the university, English; life data)