Roger Dragonetti

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Roger Dragonetti (born November 9, 1915 in Ghent ; † October 23 or 25, 2000 in Geneva ) was a Belgian Romance and Medievalist who worked as a university professor in Switzerland .

life and work

Dragonetti studied in Ghent and received his doctorate in 1943 under Robert Guiette with the Thèse Études sur les moyens d'expression de la poésie lyrique du XIIIème siècle . He was a high school teacher in Renaix, Gent and Aalst. In 1961 he completed his habilitation with the revised dissertation and taught at the University of Ghent , from 1965 as a full professor of French literature. From 1968 to 1986 he taught medieval literature at the University of Geneva . Jacques Lacan was one of his friends . Dragonetti was also a trained pianist.

Dragonetti was a corresponding member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (1975).

Works

  • La technique poétique des trouvères dans la chanson courtoise. Contribution à l'étude de la rhétorique médiévale , Bruges 1960, Geneva 1979
  • Aux frontières du langage poétique. Etudes sur Dante, Mallarmé, Valéry , Gent 1961
  • Le passage périlleux , Bologna 1966
  • Dante pèlerin de la Sainte Face , Ghent 1968
  • La vie de la lettre au Moyen Age. Le conte du Graal , Paris 1980
  • Le gai savoir dans la rhetorique courtoise: "Flamenca" et "Joufroi de Poitiers", Paris 1982
  • La musique et les lettres. Etudes de littérature médiévale , ed. by Charles Méla, Genève 1986
  • Le Mirage des sources. L'art du faux dans le roman médiéval , Paris 1987
  • Études sur Mallarmé , ed. by Wilfried Smekens, Gent 1992
  • Un fantôme dans le kiosque. Mallarmé et l'esthétique du quotidien , Paris 1992
  • Dante, la langue et le poème , ed. by Christopher Lucken, Paris 2006

literature

  • Le Moyen Âge dans la modernité. Mélanges offerts à Roger Dragonetti , ed. by Jean R. Scheidegger, Paris 1996
  • L'orgueil de la literature. Autour de Roger Dragonetti , ed. by Jacques Berchtold and Christopher Lucken, Geneva 1999 (Honorary Colloquium Geneva 10 November 1995)
  • Jean Dufournet [obituary], in: Le Moyen Age 2001, pp. 199-208
  • Christopher Lucken, Roger Dragonetti, in: Portraits de médiévistes suisses (1850-2000). Une profession au fil du temps , ed. by Ursula Bähler and Richard Trachsler, Geneva 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Dragonetti, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Romanist and Medievalist who worked as a university professor in Switzerland
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2000 or October 25, 2000
Place of death Geneva