Gerald Prince
{{Short description|American academic and literary theoretician}}
Gerald J. Prince (born November 7, 1942, in Alexandria, Egypt) is an American academic and literary theoretician. He is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania,{{Cite web|title = Gerald J. Prince {{!}} French and Francophone Studies|url = https://www.sas.upenn.edu/french/people/gerald-j-prince|website = www.sas.upenn.edu|access-date = 2015-11-28}} where he is also affiliated with the department of Linguistics and the Program in Comparative Literature and with the Annenberg School for Communication.
Prince received his Ph.D. from Brown University (1968). He is a leading scholar of narrative poetics and he has helped to shape the discipline of narratology, developing key concepts such as the narratee, narrativity, the disnarrated, and narrative grammar.{{Cite journal|url = https://ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?journals/Narrative/narrmain.htm|title = Gerald Prince and Narrative Studies|last = Pavel|first = Thomas|journal = Narrative|volume = 22|issue = 3|date = 2014|pages = 298–303|doi = 10.1353/nar.2014.0023|s2cid = 162185559|access-date = 2015-11-28|archive-date = 2016-03-04|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304141158/https://ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?journals%2FNarrative%2Fnarrmain.htm|url-status = dead|url-access = subscription}} In addition to his theoretical work, he is a distinguished critic of contemporary French literature and is regarded as an authority on the French novel of the twentieth century.{{Cite journal|title = Guide du roman de langue francaise (1901-1950) (review)|url = https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/french_forum/v027/27.3day.html|journal = French Forum|date = 2002-01-01|issn = 1534-1836|pages = 121–123|volume = 27|issue = 3|doi = 10.1353/frf.2003.0015|first = James T.|last = Day|s2cid = 194059748|url-access = subscription}}
Prince's writings in French and English have been translated into many other languages, and he has been a visiting professor at universities in France, Belgium, Italy, Australia, and Canada, as well as the United States. He is the General Editor of the "Stages" series at the University of Nebraska Press,{{Cite web|url = https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/Catalog/ProductSearch.aspx?ExtendedSearch=false&SearchOnLoad=true&rhl=Stages&sj=722&rhdcid=722|title = University of Nebraska Press|access-date = 2015-11-28|archive-date = 2016-08-26|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160826061735/http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/Catalog/ProductSearch.aspx?ExtendedSearch=false&SearchOnLoad=true&rhl=Stages&sj=722&rhdcid=722|url-status = dead}} and he serves on more than a dozen other editorial and advisory boards. In 2013 he received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative,{{Cite web|title = ISSN {{!}} Awards {{!}} The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award {{!}} 2013|url = http://narrative.georgetown.edu/awards/booth-prince.php|website = narrative.georgetown.edu|access-date = 2015-11-28}} an organization that he presided over in 2007.
Bibliography
- Métaphysique et technique dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Sartre. Geneva: Droz, 1968.{{Cite book|title = Métaphysique et technique dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Sartre.|publisher = Droz|date = 1968-01-01|location = Genève|language = fr|first = Gérald Joseph|last = Prince|oclc = 77131014}}
- A Grammar of Stories. Berlin: Mouton, 1973.{{Cite book|title = A grammar of stories: an introduction|publisher = Mouton|date = 1973-01-01|location = The Hague; Paris|first = Gerald Joseph|last = Prince|oclc = 750565753}}
- Narratology: The Form and Functioning of Narrative. Berlin: Mouton, 1982.{{Cite book|title = Narratology: the form and functioning of narrative|publisher = Mouton|date = 1982-01-01|location = Berlin; New York|first = Gerald|last = Prince|oclc = 8388782}}
- A Dictionary of Narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.{{Cite book|title = A dictionary of narratology|url = https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnarr0000prin|url-access = registration|publisher = University of Nebraska Press|date = 1987-01-01|location = Lincoln|first = Gerald|last = Prince| isbn=9780803236783 |oclc = 15109449}}
- Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.{{Cite book|title = Narrative as theme studies in French fiction|url = http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/428|publisher = University of Nebraska Press|date = 1992-01-01|location = Lincoln|first = Gerald|last = Prince}}
- Alteratives. Co-edited with Warren Motte. Lexington: French Forum, 1993.{{Cite book|title = Alteratives|publisher = French Forum|date = 1993-01-01|location = Lexington, Ky.|first1 = Warren F|last1 = Motte|first2 = Gerald|last2 = Prince|first3 = Jean|last3 = Alter|oclc = 28214252}}
- Autobiography, Historiography, and Rhetoric. Co-edited with Mary Donaldson-Evans and Lucienne Frappier-Mazur. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.{{Cite book|title = Autobiography, historiography, rhetoric: a festschrift in honor of Frank Paul Bowman|publisher = Rodopi|date = 1994-01-01|location = Amsterdam; Atlanta|first1 = Frank Paul|last1 = Bowman|first2 = Mary|last2 = Donaldson-Evans|first3 = Lucienne|last3 = Frappier-Mazur|first4 = Gerald|last4 = Prince|oclc = 31350313}}
- Corps/Décors: Femmes, Orgies, Parodies. Co-edited with Catherine Nesci and Gretchen Van Slyke. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.{{Cite book|title = Corps/décors: femmes, orgie, parodie : hommage à Lucienne Frappier-Mazur|publisher = Rodopi|date = 1999-01-01|location = Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA|first1 = Lucienne|last1 = Frappier-Mazur|first2 = Catherine|last2 = Nesci|first3 = Gretchen Jane|last3 = Van Slyke|first4 = Gerald|last4 = Prince|oclc = 43261449}}
- Eroticisms/Érotismes. Co-edited with Roger Célestin and Éliane DalMolin. Special issue of Sites, vol. 6, no. 1, 2002.{{Cite book|title = Eroticisms = Erotismes|publisher = Routledge|date = 2002-01-01|location = Reading, Berks.|first1 = Gerald|last1 = Prince|first2 = Eliane Françoise|last2 = DalMolin|first3 = Roger|last3 = Célestin|oclc = 49763652}}
- Guide du roman de langue française (1901-1950). Lanham: University Press of America, 2002.{{Cite book|title = Guide du roman de langue française|publisher = University Press of America|date = 2002-01-01|location = Lanham, Md.|first = Gerald|last = Prince|oclc = 49891329}}
- Résurgence/Oubli. Co-edited with Sabrinelle Bedrane and Bruno Blanckeman. Special issue of French Forum, vol. 41. no. 1-2, 2016.{{Cite book|title = Résurgence = Oubli|publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press|date = 2016-01-01|location = Philadelphia, Pa|first1 = Gerald|last1 = Prince|first2 = Sabrinelle|last2 = Bedrane|first3 = Bruno|last3 = Blanckeman}}
- Geographical Narratology (special issue of Frontiers of Narrative Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2018. {{Cite book|title = Geographical Narratology|publisher = de Gruyter|date = 2018-01-01|location = Berlin, Germany}}
- Guide du roman de langue française (1951-2000). Paris: Vérone, 2019.{{Cite book|title = Guide du roman de langue française|publisher = Vérone|date = 2019-01-01|location = Paris.|first = Gerald|last = Prince}}
References
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Further reading
- Vincent B. Leitch, American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties. New York: Columbia UP, 1988, pp. 248–49.
- Irena Makaryk, ed., Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1993, pp. 448–49.
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