Malcolm Bowie

Malcolm Bowie (born May 5, 1943 in Aldeburgh , Suffolk , † January 28, 2007 in Cambridge ) was a British Romance studies , literary and cultural scholar.

life and work

Bowie studied in Edinburgh and at the University of Sussex in Brighton and Hove . There he received his doctorate in 1970 with the work of Henri Michaux. A study of his literary works (Oxford 1973). He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (1967–1969), in Cambridge ( Clare College 1969–1976), as professor of French language and literature at Queen Mary College , University of London (1976–1992), as Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford ( All Souls College 1992–2002), as well as a Master’s degree from Christ's College (Cambridge) (2002–2007). Bowie was editor of the journal French Studies (1980–1987) and the Cambridge Studies in French series (1980–1995). He was President of the Association of University Professors of French (1982–1984), the Society for French Studies (1994–1996), the British Comparative Literature Association (1998–2004) and the European Humanities Research Center (1998–2002).

Bowie was a member of the British Academy (1993), the Royal Society of Literature and the Academia Europaea .

Malcolm Bowie was married to Professor Alison Finch, a novelist.

Other works

• Mallarmé and the art of being difficult, Cambridge 1978
• (Ed.) Alison Fairlie, Imagination and language. Collected essays on Constant, Baudelaire, Nerval and Flaubert, Cambridge 1981
• (Ed. With Alison Fairlie and Alison Finch) Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Valéry. New essays in honor of Lloyd Austin, Cambridge 1982
• Freud, Proust and Lacan. Theory as fiction, Cambridge 1984 (French: Paris 1988)
• Lacan, Cambridge 1991
• The morality of Proust. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on November 25, 1993, Oxford 1994
• (Ed.) Lloyd James Austin, Essais sur Mallarmé, Manchester 1995
• Proust among the stars, London 1998, New York 1999 (Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism 2001)
• (with Sarah Kay and Terence Cave ) A short history of French literature, Oxford 2003
• (Ed. With Gillian Beer and Beate Perrey) In (ter) discipline. New languages ​​for criticism, London 2007 (Conference in Cambridge 2003)
• (Ed. Alison Finch) Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie I and II: Dreams of Knowledge and Song Man, Oxford 2013.

literature

• The Independent February 5, 2007
• The Guardian February 14, 2007
• The Times February 6, 2007
• The Daily Telegraph February 5, 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Malcolm Bowie in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)