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Gerald J. Prince

Professor of Romance Languages

Prince

Modern French literature. He is the author
of several books, including Métaphysique et technique dans l'œuvre romanesque de Sartre, A Dictionary of Narratology, Narrative as Theme, and Guide du roman de langue française (1901-1950) as well as many articles on narrative theory and on modern French literature. A co-editor of the "Parallax" series for the Johns Hopkins UP and of the "Stages" series for the U of Nebraska P, Prof. Prince is a member of the editorial or advisory board of over a dozen journals (including Narrative, Style, and French Review).  He is currently working on the second volume of his Guide du roman de langue française (1951-2000), regularly teaches courses on narrative poetics and on modern French fiction (from Proust and Gide to Sartre and Camus; from Sarraute and Robbe-Grillet to Perec and Toussaint), and has recently directed dissertations on self-portraiture, Marguerite Yourcenar, prison in twentieth-century French fiction, and visual representations in the postmodern French novel.

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