Gerald Prince

Gerald J. Prince (born November 7, 1942, in Alexandria, Egypt) is an American academic and literary theoretician. He is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania,[1] where he is also affiliated with the department of Linguistics and the Program in Comparative Literature and with the Annenberg School for Communication.

Prince received his Ph.D. from Brown University (1968). He is a leading scholar of narrative poetics and he has helped to shape the discipline of narratology, developing key concepts such as the narratee, narrativity, the disnarrated, and narrative grammar.[2] In addition to his theoretical work, he is a distinguished critic of contemporary French literature and is regarded as an authority on the French novel of the twentieth century.[3]

Prince's writings in French and English have been translated into many other languages, and he has been a visiting professor at universities in France, Belgium, Italy, Australia, and Canada, as well as the United States. He is the General Editor of the "Stages" series at the University of Nebraska Press,[4] and he serves on more than a dozen other editorial and advisory boards. In 2013 he received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative,[5] an organization that he presided over in 2007.

Bibliography

• Métaphysique et technique dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Sartre. Geneva: Droz, 1968.[6]
• A Grammar of Stories. Berlin: Mouton, 1973.[7]
• Narratology: The Form and Functioning of Narrative. Berlin: Mouton, 1982.[8]
• A Dictionary of Narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.[9]
• Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.[10]
• Alteratives. Co-edited with Warren Motte. Lexington: French Forum, 1993.[11]
• Autobiography, Historiography, and Rhetoric. Co-edited with Mary Donaldson-Evans and Lucienne Frappier-Mazur. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.[12]
• Corps/Décors: Femmes, Orgies, Parodies. Co-edited with Catherine Nesci and Gretchen Van Slyke. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.[13]
• Eroticisms/Érotismes. Co-edited with Roger Célestin and Éliane DalMolin. Special issue of Sites, vol. 6, no. 1, 2002.[14]
• Guide du roman de langue française (1901-1950). Lanham: University Press of America, 2002.[15]
• Résurgence/Oubli. Co-edited with Sabrinelle Bedrane and Bruno Blanckeman. Special issue of French Forum, vol. 41. no. 1-2, 2016.[16]
• Geographical Narratology (special issue of Frontiers of Narrative Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2018. [17]
• Guide du roman de langue française (1951-2000). Paris: Vérone, 2019.[18]

References

1. "Gerald J. Prince | French and Francophone Studies". www.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
2. Pavel, Thomas (2014). "Gerald Prince and Narrative Studies". Narrative. 22 (3): 298–303. doi:10.1353/nar.2014.0023. S2CID 162185559. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
3. Day, James T. (2002-01-01). "Guide du roman de langue francaise (1901-1950) (review)". French Forum. 27 (3): 121–123. doi:10.1353/frf.2003.0015. ISSN 1534-1836. S2CID 194059748.
4. "University of Nebraska Press". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
5. "ISSN | Awards | The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award | 2013". narrative.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
6. Prince, Gérald Joseph (1968-01-01). Métaphysique et technique dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Sartre (in French). Genève: Droz. OCLC 77131014.
7. Prince, Gerald Joseph (1973-01-01). A grammar of stories: an introduction. The Hague; Paris: Mouton. OCLC 750565753.
8. Prince, Gerald (1982-01-01). Narratology: the form and functioning of narrative. Berlin; New York: Mouton. OCLC 8388782.
9. Prince, Gerald (1987-01-01). A dictionary of narratology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803236783. OCLC 15109449.
10. Prince, Gerald (1992-01-01). Narrative as theme studies in French fiction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
11. Motte, Warren F; Prince, Gerald; Alter, Jean (1993-01-01). Alteratives. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum. OCLC 28214252.
12. Bowman, Frank Paul; Donaldson-Evans, Mary; Frappier-Mazur, Lucienne; Prince, Gerald (1994-01-01). Autobiography, historiography, rhetoric: a festschrift in honor of Frank Paul Bowman. Amsterdam; Atlanta: Rodopi. OCLC 31350313.
13. Frappier-Mazur, Lucienne; Nesci, Catherine; Van Slyke, Gretchen Jane; Prince, Gerald (1999-01-01). Corps/décors: femmes, orgie, parodie : hommage à Lucienne Frappier-Mazur. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. OCLC 43261449.
14. Prince, Gerald; DalMolin, Eliane Françoise; Célestin, Roger (2002-01-01). Eroticisms = Erotismes. Reading, Berks.: Routledge. OCLC 49763652.
15. Prince, Gerald (2002-01-01). Guide du roman de langue française. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. OCLC 49891329.
16. Prince, Gerald; Bedrane, Sabrinelle; Blanckeman, Bruno (2016-01-01). Résurgence = Oubli. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press.
17. Geographical Narratology. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter. 2018-01-01.
18. Prince, Gerald (2019-01-01). Guide du roman de langue française. Paris.: Vérone.

Further reading

• Vincent B. Leitch, American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties. New York: Columbia UP, 1988, pp. 248–49.
• Irena Makaryk, ed., Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1993, pp. 448–49.