Gustave Lanson

Gustave Lanson (* August 5, 1857 in New Orleans, † 15 December 1934 in Paris) was a French linguist and literary theorist.

Life and work

Lanson graduated in 1879 and was a high school teacher Agrégation in Bayonne, Moulins, Rennes, Toulouse and Paris ( Lycée Charlemagne). From 1886 to 1887 he was a tutor at the Tsar's court. In 1887 he habilitated with the two theses Nivelle de La Chaussée et la comédie larmoyante (1903 ud T. Les Origines du drame contemporain, Geneva also 1970) and De Manilio poeta ejusque ingenio and was professor of rhetoric at the Lycée Michelet, Lycée Charlemagne, and in 1894 the Lycée Louis- le -Grand. In 1904 he became professor of eloquence at the Sorbonne, taught in 1911 at Columbia University in New York and was from 1919 to 1927 director of the elite University of ENS.

His French literary history became famous (French Histoire de la littérature française ) of 1894, which saw numerous editions until 1985. He thus achieved a standard manual in the spirit of positivism. Lanson is considered the father of the explication de texte.

Works

• Letters of old France. (transmitted by Werner Langer), Dieterich, Leipzig, 1941.
• Principes de composition et de style, Paris 1887 ud T. Conseils sur l'art d' écrire. Paris 1890.
• Boileau. Paris 1892.
• Histoire de la littérature française. Paris 1894 ( new editions to 1985 )
• Hommes et livres. Etudes et morales littéraires, Paris 1895, Geneva 1979.
• Études de pratiques composition française. Paris 1898.
• Corneille. Paris 1898.
• L' université et la société modern, Paris 1902.
• L'Art de la prose. Paris 1909 ( first 1905-1907 In: Annales ), 1968, Paris 1996.
• Manuel de la littérature française bibliographique modern ( 1500-1900 ). 5 vols, Paris 1909-1914, 2nd edition. 1921; CD -ROM, Saint-Cloud, 2007.
• Voltaire. Paris 1910, éd. revue et mise à jour par René Pomeau, Paris 1960.
• Trois mois d' enseignement aux États -Unis, notes et impressions d'un professeur français, Paris 1912, 2nd edition. , 1914.
• Les Études sur la littérature française modern. Paris 1915.
• Outline of a histoire de la tragédie française. Paris 1920, 1954.
• Histoire illustrée de la littérature française. 2 vols, Paris, 1922.
• Méthode de l' histoire littéraire. 1925 Paris, Geneva 1979.
• L' idéal français dans la littérature de la Renaissance à la Révolution, Paris 1927.
• (along with Paul Tuffrau, 1887-1973 ) Manuel d' histoire de la littérature illustré, Paris 1929, 735 pp.
• Le Marquis de Vauvenargues. Paris 1930, 1970.
• Montesquieu. Paris 1932.
• Essais de méthode de critique et d' histoire littéraire, rassemblés et presentes par Henri Peyre, Paris 1965.