Karl David Uitti

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Karl David Uitti (born December 10, 1933 , † November 11, 2003 ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Uitti studied at the University of California, Berkeley , wrote the master's thesis Conceptions of pure poetry in French and English from Poe to Yeats and Valéry in 1953 and received his doctorate in 1959 with the work Pensée et création littéraires dans l'oeuvre de Remy de Gourmont (published ad title: La Passion littéraire de Remy de Gourmont , Princeton / Paris 1962). In 1959 he went to Princeton University and stayed there until his death (from 1972 to 1978 as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages ​​and Literatures, then as Professor of French and Italian and John Woodhull Professor of Modern Languages). He directed the computerization of the Lancelot manuscripts (Charrette project).

Uitti was editor of the "Edward C. Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature" (from 1979) and co-editor of the magazines French Forum and Romance Philology .

Other works

  • The Concept of self in the Symbolist novel, The Hague 1961
  • Linguistics and literary theory, Englewood Cliffs 1969 (Spanish: Madrid 1977)
  • Story, myth and celebration in Old French narrative poetry, 1050-1200, Princeton 1973
  • (Ed. With Alfred Foulet ) Chrétien de Troyes: Le chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot), Paris 1989, 2006, 2010 (Classiques Garnier)
  • (Ed. With Joseph Miller) Gordon Douglas McGregor, The broken pot restored. Le jeu de la feuillée of Adam de la Halle, with an English version of Le jeu la feuillée by G. McGregor and Jan Heckenkamp Logan and of selected Fatrasies d'Arras by G. McGregor, Lexington, Ky. 1991
  • (with Michelle A. Freeman) Chrétien de Troyes revisited, New York 1995

literature

  • Translatio studii. Essays by his students in honor of Karl D. Uitti for his sixty-fifth birthday, ed. by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski u. a., Amsterdam 2000
  • Lady philology's charrette. Approaching medieval textuality through Chrétien's Lancelot. Essays in memory of Karl D. Uitti, ed. by Gina L. Greco and Ellen M. Thorington, Tempe 2011
  • Peter F. Dembowski: Necrology - In memoriam: Karl David Uitti (1933-2003), in: Romance Philology 57, 2004, pp. 109–116

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personal data
SURNAME Uitti, Karl David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uitti, Karl D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1933
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2003