Malcolm Bowie

Malcolm Bowie ( born May 5, 1943 in Aldeburgh, East Anglia, † January 28, 2007 in Cambridge ) was a British linguist and literary theorist.

Life and work

Bowie studied in Edinburgh and at the University of Sussex in Brighton and Hove. There he received his doctorate in 1970 with the work Henri Michaux. A study of his literary works (Oxford, 1973). He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (1967-1969), in Cambridge (Clare College 1969-1976 ), a professor of French language and literature at Queen Mary College, University of London ( 1976-1992 ), Marshal Foch as Professor of French Literature at Oxford ( All Souls College from 1992 to 2002 ), as well as a Master of Christ's College (Cambridge) (2002-2007). Bowie was editor of French Studies (1980-1987) and the series Cambridge Studies in French ( 1980-1995 ). He was president of the Association of University Professors of French (1982-1984), the Society for French Studies (1994-1996), the British Comparative Literature Association (1998-2004) and of the European Humanities Research Centre (1998-2002).

Bowie was a member of the British Academy (1993 ), the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academia Europaea.

Malcolm Bowie was married to the Romance languages ​​and Professor Alison Finch.

Other works

  • Mallarmé and the art of being difficult, Cambridge 1978
  • (Ed.) Alison Fairlie, imagination and language. Collected Essays on Constant, Baudelaire, Nerval and Flaubert, Cambridge 1981
  • (Ed. with Alison Fairlie and Alison Finch ) Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Valéry. New essays in honor of Lloyd Austin, Cambridge 1982
  • Freud, Proust and Lacan. Theory as fiction, Cambridge 1984 ( French: Paris 1988)
  • Lacan, Cambridge 1991
  • The morality of Proust. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 25 November 1993, Oxford 1994
  • (Ed.) Lloyd James Austin, Essais sur Mallarmé, Manchester 1995
  • Proust among the stars, London 1998, New York 1999 ( Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2001 )
  • ( with Sarah Kay and Terence Cave ) A short history of French literature, Oxford 2003
  • ( Ed. with Gillian Beer and Beate Perrey ) In (ter ) discipline. New languages ​​for criticism, London 2007 (conference in Cambridge 2003)
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