Michel Dassonville

Michel Dassonville (born December 27, 1927 in Lille ; † November 29, 2012 ) was an American Romance studies and French studies of French origin, who also worked in Canada.

Life

Dassonville went to Canada in 1949 and taught in Bathurst (New Brunswick) . He received his doctorate in 1952 from the University of Laval with the thesis Pierre de La Ramée (dit Petrus Ramus ) et la dialectique en français and taught there. From 1958 to 1960 he taught in Paris (Lycée Massillon and Institut Catholique). Then he went to the University of Texas at Austin , where he was professor of French from 1963 to 1993.

Works

• Comment écrire une dissertation littéraire. Conseils pratiques aux futurs bacheliers , Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 1955.
• (Ed.) Octave Crémazie (1827–1879), Œuvres choisies , Montréal / Paris, Fides, 1956.
• L'analysis de texte , Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 1957.
• (Ed.) Louis-Honoré Fréchette , Textes choisis , Montréal / Paris, Fides, 1959.
• Initiation à la recherche littéraire , Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 1961.
• (Ed.) Louis Fréchette, Mémoires intimes , Montréal / Paris, Fides, 1961.
• (Ed.) Pierre de La Ramée, Dialectique (1555) , Geneva, Droz, 1964.
• Ronsard. Etude historique et littéraire , 5 vols., Geneva, Droz, 1968–1990.
  • Les enfances Ronsard (1536-1545), 1968
  • À la conquête de la Toison d'or (1545–1550), 1970
  • Prince des poètes ou poète des princes (1550–1556), 1976
  • Grandeurs et servitudes (1556-1565), 1981, 1985
  • "Un brasier sous la cendre" (1565-1575), 1990
• (Ed. With others) Ronsard et l'imaginaire , Florenz, Olschki, 1986.
• (Ed. With Enea Balmas ) Théâtre français de la Renaissance , 15 vols., Florence, Olschki, 1986–2012.
• (Ed.) Ronsard et Montaigne, écrivains engagés? , Lexington, Ky, French forum, 1989.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michel Dassonville in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Obituary (English)