Thomas Pavel

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Thomas Pavel (born April 4 1941 in Bucharest, Romania) is a literary theorist, critic, and novelist currently teaching at the University of Chicago.

[edit] Biography

Thomas Pavel received an MA in Linguistics from the University of Bucharest in 1962 and a PhD from the EHESS in 1971, with a thesis on the tragedies of Pierre Corneille. He taught at the University of Ottawa from 1973 to 1981, the University of Quebec at Montreal from 1981 to 1986, the University of California Santa Cruz from 1986 to 1990, Princeton University from 1990 to 1998, and the University of Chicago from 1998 to the present. In 1999, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 2004, he was named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, one of France's most prestigious honors.[1]

Pavel is best known for his pioneering work in applying possible worlds theory to the study of fiction, as well as for his critique of Structuralism. His books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Fragmente despre cuvinte. (Essay.) Bucharest: Editura pentru literatura, 1968.
  • La Syntaxe narrative des tragédies de Corneille: Recherches et propositions. Paris: Klincksieck, 1976.
  • Inflexions de voix. (Essay.) Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1976.
  • Le Miroir persan. (Novel). Paris: Denoël & Montréal: Quinze, 1978.
  • The Poetics of Plot: The Case of English Renaissance Drama. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.
  • Fictional Worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.
  • The Feud of Language. Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. (Translation of Pavel's Le Mirage linguistique, Paris: Minuit, 1988.)
  • L’Art de l’éloignement: Essai sur l’imagination classique. Paris: Gallimard, 1996.
  • De Barthes à Balzac: Fictions d’un critique et critiques d’une fiction. (With Claude Bremond.) Paris: Albin Michel, 1998.
  • La sixième branche. (Novel.) Paris: Fayard, 2003
  • La Pensée du roman. Paris : Gallimard, 2003.

This article is based on the corresponding entry on the French Wikipedia site.

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