Marcel Tetel
Marcel Tetel (* 1932 in Paris ; † May 27, 2004 in Durham (North Carolina) ) was an American Romance studies and literary scholar of French origin.
life and work
Tetel belonged to a Polish-Jewish family living in France. He grew up in Paris, was hidden by the Resistance in 1943 (after his parents had been abducted and his parents died in Auschwitz) and came to the USA in 1949. He studied until 1954 at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga , until 1956 at Emory University , then with Alfred Glauser at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . From 1960 he taught at Duke University , from 1968 as a full professor. Tetel was the founder and first editor of the Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (later Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies ).
Marcel Tetel was married to the linguist and novelist Julie Tetel Andresen (* 1950).
Works
- Étude sur le comique de Rabelais, Florence 1964
- Rabelais, New York 1967
- Rabelais et l'Italie, Florence 1969
- (Ed.) Pirandello, Enrico IV, New York 1971
- Marguerite de Navarre's heptameron. Themes, language, and structure, Durham, NC 1973 (French Paris 1991)
- Montaigne, New York 1974, Boston 1990
- (Ed.) Symbolism and modern literature. Studies in honor of Wallace Fowlie, Durham 1978
- (Ed. With Floyd Gray ) Études sur le XVIe siècle pour Alfred Glauser. Textes et intertextes, Paris 1979
- (Ed.) Montaigne 1580–1980. Actes du Colloque international, Duke University / University of North Carolina. 28-30 mars 1980, Paris 1983
- Lectures scéviennes. L'emblème et les mots, Paris 1983
- (Ed. With François Moureau) Jean Tarde, Deux voyages en Italie. A la rencontre de Galilée, Geneva 1984
- (Ed. With G. Mallary Masters) Le Parcours des "Essais". Montaigne 1588-1988. Colloque international Duke University / Université de la Caroline du Nord-Chapel Hill, Paris 1989
- (Ed. With Ronald G. Witt and Rona Goffen) Life and death in fifteenth-century Florence, Durham, NC 1989
- (Ed.) Sur des vers de Ronsard, 1585–1985. Actes du colloque international. Duke University 11-13 avril 1985, Paris 1990
- Présences italiennes dans les "Essais" de Montaigne, Paris 1992
- (with Elizabeth Chesney Zegura) Rabelais revisited, New York: Toronto 1993
- (Ed.) Les visages et les voix de Marguerite de Navarre. Actes du Colloque international sur Marguerite de Navarre. Duke University 10-11 avril 1992, Paris 1995
- (Eds.) Montaigne et Marie de Gournay. Actes du colloque international de Duke [March 31 to April 1, 1995], Paris 1997
- (Ed.) Étienne de La Boétie. Say révolutionnaire et poète périgourdin. Actes du colloque international Duke University 26-28 mars 1999, Paris 2004
literature
- Sans autre guide. Mélanges de littérature française de la Renaissance offerts à Marcel Tetel, ed. by Philippe Desan, Larry Kritzman, Raymond C. La Charité and Michel Simonin , Paris 1999 (with list of publications)
- [Obituary in:] Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35, 2005, pp. 1–2
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tetel, Marcel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tétel, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance studies and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 2004 |
| Place of death | Durham, North Carolina |