Tragedy and the Civilizing Process, 1100-1700

This project is ongoing.

My book project demonstrates the complex, evolving relationship between textual representations and conceptions of tragedy and the practice of emotional self-restraint as part of the civilizing process in France from the Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.

Note: there is currently no funding available for a student assistant

Qualifications

Books:

Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France. New York, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. 245 pp.

 

Les Lettres romaines de Du Bellay: Les Regrets et la tradition épistolaire. Montreal: University of Montreal Press, 2001. 304 pp.

 

La Poésie au Miroir: imitation et conscience de soi dans la poésie latine de la Pléiade. Paris: Honoré Champion éditeur, 1995. 232 pp.

 

Education:

1993          Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University.

1989-90     M.A., Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University.

1984-85     Maîtrise ès lettres modernes, mention « très bien », Université de Paris-Sorbonne.

1983-84     Studied Germanistik and Classics at Karl-Eberhard-Universität Tübingen.

1982-83     Licence ès lettres modernes, Université de Paris-Sorbonne.

1978-82     A.B., Comparative Literature with honors, magna cum laude, Brown University.

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Project Lead
Who to Contact
Marc Bizer
Contact Email
mbizer@utexas.edu

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