Odette de Mourgues

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Odette de Mourgues (* 1914 in Le Puy-en-Velay ; † July 1, 1988 ) was a French English and Romance scholar, literary scholar and writer who worked as a university teacher in England.

life and work

Odette de Mourgues first studied law in Grenoble, then English literature with Henri Fluchère (1898–1987) in Aix-en-Provence (Agrégation 1945). After the war, the Resistance, the loss of a child and a divorce, she went to England and received her doctorate in 1950 with the thesis Metaphysical, Baroque & Précieux Poetry (Oxford 1953) at Cambridge ( Girton College ). There she taught - not without the influence of FR Leavis (1895–1978) - first as a lecturer, from 1968 as a reader and from 1975 as a professor of French literature.

Other works

  • Le Jugement avant-dernier. Roman, Paris 1954
  • L'hortensia bleu. Roman, Paris 1956
  • La Fontaine. Fables, London 1960
  • O muse, fuyante proie ... Essai sur la poésie de La Fontaine, Paris 1962, 1987
  • (Ed.) An anthology of French seventeenth-century lyric poetry, London 1966
  • Autonomie de Racine, Paris 1967
  • Racine or, the Triumph of relevance, Cambridge 1967
  • Two French moralists. La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère, Cambridge 1978
  • Intelligence et comique dans le théâtre de Molière, London 1980 (Cassal bequest lecture)
  • Quelques paradoxes sur le classicisme, Oxford 1981 (Zaharoff Lecture)

literature

  • The Equilibrium of wit. Essays for Odette de Mourgues, ed. by Peter Bayley and Dorothy Gabe Coleman, Lexington, Kentucky 1982 (with list of publications)
  • Obituary in: French Studies 43, 1989, pp. 119–120
  • Obituary in: Bulletin de l'Association d'étude sur l'humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance 27, 1988, pp. 52-54

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personal data
SURNAME Mourgues, Odette de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French English and Romance studies and literary scholar, university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Puy-en-Velay
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1988