Michael Riffaterre

Michael Riffaterre ( born November 20, 1924 in Bourganeuf, † May 27, 2006 in New York) was an American linguist and literary scholar of French origin.

Life and work

Michel Riffaterre was the son of the parliamentarian Riffaterre Camille ( 1879-1964 ). He studied in Lyon and at the Sorbonne, went to the United States in 1950 and received his PhD in 1955 at Columbia University, New York, via Le style of the Pleiades de Gobineau. Essai d'application d'une méthode stylistique ( Geneva / Paris / New York 1957). Ibid he was Instructor (1953), Assistant Professor (1955), Full Professor (1964 ), Blanche W. knob Professor (1975) and 1982-2004 University Professor. From 1971 to 2000 he was editor of the magazine Romanic Review. Riffaterre honorary degrees from the universities of Clermont -Ferrand and Paris.

Other works

• Essais de stylistique structurale, ed. by Daniel Delas, Paris, 1970, 1973, 1975 ( German: These structural stylistics, Munich 1973 Spanish: Barcelona 1976)
• Semiotics of Poetry, Bloomington / London 1978, Methuen 1980, Bloomington 1984 ( French: Paris 1983, 1990; Arabic 1997)
• La Production du texte, Paris, 1979 ( English: New York, 1983; Italian: Bologna 1989)
• Fictional Truth, Baltimore 1990
• ( with Hans- George Ruprecht and others) L' intertextualité, inter- texts, auto text, intra texts, Toronto 1984
• Voyage, Paris 1985