Terence Cave

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Terence Christopher Cave (born December 1, 1938 in Bournemouth ) is a British literary scholar and Romance scholar .

Life

Terence Cave studied literature and French at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge , where he received his doctorate. Cave began as an assistant at the University of St Andrews in 1962 and went from there to the University of Warwick in 1965 . Cave was a Fellow and Tutor in French at St John's College Oxford from 1972 and Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford from 1989 . In 2001 he retired early for further research.

Cave's research focus was with The Cornucopian Text , 1979, the Renaissance literature, and with Recognitions , 1999, the history of the impact of Aristotelian poetics in early modern European literature.

Cave was visiting professor at various national and international universities.

Cave is a member of the Academia Europaea (1990), a Fellow of the British Academy (1991), a member of the Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (1993), Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite (2001), since 2007 an honorary doctorate from the University of London and abroad Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . In 2009 he received the Balzan Prize .

Fonts (selection)

  • Devotional Poetry in France 1570–1613 . Cambridge: University Press, 1969
  • The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
    • Cornucopia. Figures de l'abondance au XVIe siècle. Erasme, Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne . Ginette Morel in Romanian. Paris: Macula, 1997
  • Recognitions: A Study in Poetics . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988
  • Pré-histoires: textes troublés au seuil de la modernité . Geneva: Droz, 1999
  • Pré-histoires II: langues étrangères et troubles économiques au XVIe siècle . Geneva: Droz, 2001
  • How to Read Montaigne . London: Granta, 2007.
  • with Sarah Kay and Malcolm Bowie : A short history of French literature , Oxford 2003
  • Neil Kenny, Wes Williams (Eds.): Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History . Oxford: Legenda, 2009.
  • Mignon's Afterlives. Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-960480-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Terence Cave , Biobibliografie bei Balzan-Preis, 2009 (in English)
personal data
SURNAME Cave, Terence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cave, Terence Christopher; Cave, Terence C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary scholar and Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bournemouth