George Buford Norman, Jr.

 

Est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages et travaux, en français et en américain.

On trouvera notamment dans ce site la conférence qu’il a donnée au Premier Colloque de l’Abbaye de Sylvanès (2011).

                                                                        

 

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email: norman-buford@sc.edu

 

Education

Yale University: Doctor of Philosophy in French, 1971

                             Dissertation: “Pascal: Thoughts and Fragments”

                          Master of Philosophy in French, 1970

Davidson College: A.B., 1967, with honors in French, magna cum laude

University of Montpellier, France: Auditor, 1965-66

Summer Study:Goethe-Institut, Blaubeuren, Germany, 1966

 

Employment

University of South Carolina

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 2005-present

Professor of French, 1989-2005; Associate Professor of French, 1980-89

Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages, 2000-2005

Chair, 1990-93, fall 2000; Director, French Division, 1988-90

Exchange Professor, Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France, 1987

Director of Graduate Studies, 1983-85

Iowa State University

Associate Professor of French and Italian, 1975-80

Assistant Professor of French and Italian, 1971-75

 

Areas of Specialization

Seventeenth-Century French literature and opera

Relations between literature and music

Quinault, Racine

 

Honors and Awards

Chercheur Associé, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles

Research Grant, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), 2002

Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 1993

Listed in Who’s Who in America

NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 1994

Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award, Newberry Library, 1998

University of South Carolina Research Grant, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1996, 1997

Iowa State University Summer Research Grant, 1976

ACLS Travel Grant, Summer 1976

Yale University Fellowship, 1970-71; NDEA Title IV Fellowship, Yale University, 1967-70

 

Service to Professional Organizations

National Endowment for the Humanities, Review panel, 1992

North American Society for 17th-Century French Literature: Exec. Comm., 1991-92, 2001-03. President, 2005-06.

Modern Language Association: Exec. Comm., 17th-Cen. French Literature Div., 1990-95

Southeast Modern Language Association: Secretary, President, French II, 1983-85

Society for Interdisciplinary 17th-Century French Studies: President, 1990; Exec. Comm., 1983-84, 1985-93, 1995-97

Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e Siècle: Sec. Gén. Adjoint, 1991-2004; Président, 2008-present

Editorial Boards: Cahiers du Dix-septième, 1987-present; FLS, 1981-present; Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1998-present

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Elementary French                                                              Intermediate French

Conversation and Composition                                            Introduction to French Texts

Survey of French Literature                                                 Seventeenth Century French Literature

Twentieth-Century French Literature                                    French Literature in Translation

French Civilization                                                              Music and Literature

Elementary Italian                                                               Readings in Italian Literature

Introduction to Language                                                     French History

American Literature, Civilization                                         English Conversation, Comprehension

Graduate

Introduction to Literary Analysis                                          Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Racine; Molière                                                                  Neoclassicism (Comparative Literature)

Music and Literature

 

Publications and Other Scholarly Activity

 

Books, Monographs, Critical Editions

The Wordworthy Computer: Classroom and Research Applications in the Humanities. New York: Random House, 1987. Co-authored with Paula R. Feldman.

Portraits of Thought: Knowledge, Methods and Styles in Pascal. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.

Videoguide for Molière: l’œil en coulisses. Iowa City: PICS, 1991. Co-authored with Elizabeth Joiner.

Quinault, Philippe. Alceste, suivi de La Querelle d’Alceste: anciens et modernes avant 1680. Geneva: Droz, 1994. Co-authored with William Brooks and Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi.

Quinault, Philippe. Livrets d’opéra. Edition critique. 2 vols. Toulouse: Littératures Classiques, 1999. Deuxième édition revue et corrigée, 2005.

Touched by the Graces: The Libretti of Philippe Quinault in the Context of French Classicism. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 2001. Prix Web-17, 2002. Traduction française, revue et augmentée : Quinault librettiste de Lully. Le Poète des Grâces. Wavre, Mardaga, 2009.

Opera performances in Paris and at court, 1659-1715: an annotated chronology. Database managed by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles: http://www.cmbv.com/fr/banq/fsbanq.htm. Years 1659-1687 online 2005.

Quinault librettiste de Lully : Le Poète des Grâces. Tr. de Touched by the Graces par Thomas Vernet et Jean Duron. Wavre: Mardaga, 2009.

 

Edited Volumes

Technology and Human Values: Studies in the Interaction of Technology, Society and the Humanities. Iowa State Journal of Research 54.2 (1979). Co-Editor.

Ethnography in French Literature. FLS, Vol. 23. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. Editor.

The City in/and French Literature. FLS, Vol. 24. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. Editor.

Religion and French Literature. FLS, Vol. 25. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. Editor.

Origins and Identities in French Literature. FLS, Vol. 26. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. Editor.

The Mother in/and French Literature. FLS, Vol. 27. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. Editor.

The Documentary Impulse in French Literature. FLS, Vol. 28. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. Editor.

The Child in French and Francophone Literature. FLS, Vol. 31. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. Editor.

Victims and Victimization in French and Francophone Literature. FLS, Vol. 32. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. Editor.

Civilization in French and Francophone Literature. FLS, Vol. 33. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. Co-Editor.

Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle. Actes du 37e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Biblio 17. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

“Thought and Language in Pascal.” Yale French Studies 49 (1973): 110-19.

“City and Country in Saint-Amant.” Iowa State Journal of Research 49 (1974): 201-06.

“Whose Murderous Hand, continued: A Comparison of Racine’s Phèdre with Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie.” Romance Notes 16 (1975): 611-12.

“‘Un Cœur simple’ or ‘Un Cœur tendre’: A Comparison of Flaubert’s Tale with Baudelaire’s ‘Harmonie du soir.’” Studies in Short Fiction 13 (1976): 88-91.

“Some Similarities between the Classical and Modern Scientific and Literary Minds.” Iowa State Journal of Research 51 (1976): 235-39.

“Logic and Anti-Rhetoric in Pascal’s Pensées.” French Forum 2 (1977): 22-33.

“Cyrano and Pascal: A Similarity of Methods.” L’Esprit Créateur 18 (1979): 40-49.

“L’Idée de règle chez Pascal.” Méthodes chez Pascal. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979. 87-99.

“The Theme of Names and its Relationship to Racinian Tragedy.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 12 (1979-80): 79-90.

“Knowledge, Meaning and Style in Variants of La Rochefoucauld’s Maximes.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 14.1 (1981): 19-31.

“Nicole’s Essais de morale: Logic and Persuasion.” French Literature Series (University of South Carolina) 9 (1982): 9-17.

“The Agréments: Méré, Morality and Music.” French Review 56 (1983): 554-62. Discussion in volume 57 (1983): 69-71.

“Chez les Jésuites et chez les honnêtes gens: Methods and Styles in the Provinciales.” Biblio 17 21 (1984): 57-78.

“Editing and Interpreting Fragmentary Texts: A Justification of Pascal’s Text in MSL 527-Br 40.” Text (Society for Textual Scholarship) 2 (1985): 197-208.

“Anciens et modernes, tragédie et opéra: la querelle sur Alceste.” D’un Siècle à un autre: Anciens et Modernes. Marseille: CMR-17, 1987. 229-38.

“Ancients and Moderns, Tragedy and Opera: The Quarrel over Alceste.” (Greatly expanded version of the above.) French Musical Thought, 1600-1800. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1989. 177-96.

“Liturgical Structures in Phèdre.” Biblio 17 29 (1988): 593-607.

“Trailing Clouds of Glory: Operatic Elements in Racine’s Mithridate.” Cahiers du 17e 1.2 (1988): 21-36.

“The Vocabulary of Quinault’s Opera Libretti: Drama without Drama.” L’Age du Théâtre en France. Edmonton, Alberta: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1988. 287-98.

“Actions and Reactions: Emotional Vraisemblance in the Tragédie-Lyrique.” Cahiers du 17e 3.1 (1990): 141-54.

“Soothing the Savage Beast: Interruption, Seduction, and Retelling in Esther.” Biblio 17 59 (1990): 71-86. Co-authored with Elizabeth G. Joiner.

“Le Héros contestataire dans les livrets de Quinault : politique ou esthétique?” Ordre et contestation au temps des classiques. Biblio 17 73 (1992): 289-300.

“Les Styles d’Alceste: de l’héroïque à l’enjoué en passant par le tendre.” Papiers du Collège International de Philosophie 16 (1993): 39-54.

“The Exile of Reason: The Representation of Emotion in the Tragédie lyrique.” Ars Lyrica 6 (1993): 65-74.

“The Tragédie-Lyrique of Lully and Quinault: Representation and Recognition of Emotion.” Continuum V: Literature and the Other Arts. New York: AMS Press, 1993. 111-42.

“A Woman’s Fate in the Balance: The Persephone Myth in Quinault and Lully’s Proserpine.” Co-authored with Michèle Vialet. Images of Persephone: Feminist Readings in Western Literature. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994. 45-74.

“Les Folles conventions: le langage musical dans les dernières comédies-ballets de Molière.” Littératures Classiques 21 (1994): 91-101.

“Le Théâtre est un grand monument’: l’évocation du passé et des passions dans l’Alceste de Quinault.” Biblio 17 80 (1994): 321-29.

“Taking Things into Your Own Hands: Phèdre on the Eighteenth-century Operatic Stage.” Car demeure l’amitié. Biblio 17 102 (1997): 125-37.

“The Best Way to Skin a Cat: Thought and Expression, Words and Music in Quinault and Lully.” L’esprit en France au XVIIe siècle.  Biblio 17 101 (1997): 239-47.

“La Tragédie lyrique, déca-danse ou apothéose? Le cas d’Isis.” La Pensée de la danse à l’âge classique: écriture, lexique et poétique. Ed. Catherine Kintzler. Cahiers de la Maison de la Recherche. Lille: Université Charles-de-Gaulle — Lille III, 1997. 35-46.

“Remaking a Cultural Icon: Phèdre and the Operatic Stage.” Cambridge Opera Journal 10.3 (1998): 225-45.

“Quinault’s libretto for Isis: new directions for the tragédie lyrique.” Lully Studies. Ed. John H. Heyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 57-71.

“Comment éditer un monument: la place du texte littéraire dans une édition d’une tragédie lyrique.” Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully / L'œuvre de Lully: Etudes des sources. Hildesheim: Olms Verlag, 2000. 115-28.

“Opera as Drama, Opera as Theater: Quinault’s Isis in a Racinocentric World.” Cahiers du 17e 7.2 (2000): 57-71.

“Racine, 1674, and the ‘Querelle d’Alceste.’” Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action. Biblio 17 131 (2001): 251-62.

“Merveilleux païenne, tragédie chrétienne, tragédie moderne: Desmarest, Perrault, Quinault et Racine de 1674 à 1692.” La Spiritualité / l’Épistolaire / Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle. Biblio 17 145 (2003): 215-26.

“Hybrid Monsters and Rival Aesthetics: Monsters in Seventeenth-century French Ballet and Opera.” Theatrum mundi. Essays in Honor of Ronald Tobin. Charlottesville: Rockwood Press, 2003. 180-88.

“Racine et la musique sacrée: poésie, chant, cantique.” Jean Racine. Actes du colloque du tricentenaire (25-30 mai 1999). Paris: PUF, 2004. 668-83.

“L’Univers nouveau de la tragédie en musique: d’Armide et Renaud à Achille et Polyxène.” Littératures Classiques 52 (2004): 231-41.

“Rivalry and Collaboration: The Role of Mérope in Act I, Scene 4 of Quinault and Lully’s Persée”. Journal of Seventeenth-Century French Music 10.1 (2004). http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/jscm/v10no1.html

“Truth and Beauty, Beauty and Truth: Is There a Classical French Esthetic”. “L'esprit français” und die Musik Europas - Entstehung, Einfluss und Grenzen einer ästhetischen Doktrin / “L'esprit francais” et la musique en Europe - Émergence, influence et limites d'une doctrine esthétique. Festschrift für Herbert Schneider. Ed. Michelle Biget and Rainer Schmusch. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2006. 10-19.

“Les Songes et les charmes : la represention du merveilleux dans Esther et Athalie.” L'âge le la représentation: L'art du spectacle au XVIIe siècle. Actes du IXe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, Kiel 16-18 mars 2006. Edités par Rainer Zaiser. Tübingen, Narr Verlag, 2007. 103-112.

“Le rôle de la femme dans Proserpine. Proserpine: Un collectif autour de l’opéra Proserpine. Ed. Benoît Dratwicki. San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Glossa Music, 2008.

“Le rôle de Quinault dans la création de l’opéra français”. ‘Cadmus & Hermione’ (1673) de Jean-Baptiste Lully et Philippe Quinault : livret, études et commentaires. Ed. Jean Duron.Wavre, Mardaga, 2008. 71-95.

“Racine déraciné: l’utilisation de vers d’Andromaque dans le livret de Pitra”. Regards sur la musique… Grétry en société. Ed. Jean Duron.Wavre, Mardaga, 2009. 165-89.

“« Une si terrible tâche »: Andromaque de Racine « changé autant que l’exige la marche d’un Opéra »”. Un collectif autour de l’opéra Andromaque. Ed. Benoît Dratwicki. San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Glossa Music, 2010. 29-45.

“Quinault et l’invention du livret d’opéra français :  les « styles » de Cadmus et d’Alceste”. L’Invention des genres lyriques français et leur redécouverte au XIXe siècle. Éd. Agnès Terrier et Alexandre Dratwicki, Lyon, Symétrie, 2010. 67-78.

“Les sons des coulisses : Esther et Athalie”. La Scène et la coulisse dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle en France. Ed. G. Forestier and L. Michel. Paris, PUPS, 2011.

“L’Audace de corriger Quinault : les révisions de Devismes du livret de 1684”. Amadis de Gaule. De Johann Christian Bach, Philippe Quinault et Saint-Alphonse. Éd. Jean Duron. Wavre, Mardaga, 2011. 83-100.

 

Notes, Commentaries, Brief Essays, Dictionary Entries

“Points for Discussion” (on two papers on the honnête homme). Biblio 17 5 (1982): 181-82.

“Play, Certainty and Method in Pascal.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 14.2 (1981): 51-55.

“Autour d’une alouette: Commentaire.” Biblio 17 11 (1984): 133-35.

“1674 et la Musique: Introduction.” Biblio 17 25 (1986): 1-4.

“Rationalizing the Irrational.” Review article of Catherine Kintzler, Poétique de l’opéra français de Corneille à Rousseau. EMF 4 (1998): 215-20.

“L’Equipe Lully-Quinault/The Team of Lully and Quinault.” In Lully/Quinault, Alceste, Disques Montaigne, 1992.

“Response” (to four papers on Pascal). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 20 (1993): 193-97.

Program notes for Quinault-Lully, Isis. Birmingham (England), November 1995.

Preface to the facsimile score of J.-B. Lully’s Thésée : tragédie mise en musique. Williamstown, MA: Broude International Editions, 2001. vii-ix. Co-authored with Elma Sanders.

“Philippe Quinault.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 268. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 297-306.

“Charpentier,” “Lully,” “Music and Dance.” The Molière Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 76-78, 279-83, 333-336.

“Philippe Quinault.” Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Personenteil, vol. 13.

“Quinault”, “Lully”, “Racine”, “La Motte”. Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

Reviews

Horville, Robert. Dom Juan de Molière: une dramaturgie de rupture (Paris: Larousse, 1972). L’Esprit Créateur 14 (1974): 281-82.

Edelman, Nathan. The Eye of the Beholder: Essays in French Literature, edited by Jules Brody (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974). Studi Francesi 21 (1977): 296.

Davidson, Hugh M. and Pierre H. Dubé. A Concordance to Pascal’s Pensées (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975). Hazelton, Roger. Blaise Pascal: The Genius of his Thought (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974). Studi Francesi 21 (1977): 296-97.

Scaglione, Aldo. The Classical Theory of Composition from its Origins to the Present: A Historical Survey (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972). Studi Francesi 21 (1977): 367-68.

Kirsch, Doris. La Bruyère ou le style cruel (Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1977). Studi Francesi 22 (1978): 427-28.

Brody, Jules, ed. From Humanism to Classicism: Essays by his former students in memory of Nathan Edelman (L’Esprit Créateur 15, nos. 1-2, 1975). Studi Francesi 22 (1978): 489-90.

Lazaridès, A. Valéry: pour une poétique du dialogue (Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1978). Studi Francesi 22 (1978): 196.

Davidson, Hugh M. The Origins of Certainty: Means and Meanings in Pascal’s Pensées (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979). Studi Francesi 24 (1980): 340-41.

Stanton, Domna. The Aristocrat as Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980). Studi Francesi 25 (1981): 548.

Corum, Robert. Other Worlds and Other Seas: Art and Vision in Saint-Amant’s Nature Poetry (Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1979). French Review 55 (1982): 263-64.

Bailbé, Jacques and Jean Lagny, eds. Saint-Amant, Œuvres, Vol. 5 (Paris: Champion, 1979). French Review 55 (1982): 548-49.

Rubin, David Lee. The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1981). Romanic Review 73 (1982): 388-89.

Dens, Jean-Pierre. L’Honnête homme et la critique du goût: Esthétique et société au XVIIe siècle (Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1981). French Forum 8 (1983): 184-85.

Wetsel, David. L’Ecriture et le reste: The Pensées of Pascal in the Exegetical Tradition of Port-Royal (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 981). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 18 (1983): 421-23.

Cowart, Georgia. The Origins of Modern Musical Criticism: French and Italian Music 1600-1750 (Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1981). French Review 57 (1983): 283.

Nelson, Robert. Pascal: Adversary and Advocate (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 18 (1983): 381-83.

Hall, H. Gaston, ed. A Critical Bibliography of French Literature. Vol. IIIA. The Seventeenth Century. Supplement (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1983). French Review 57 (1984): 553-55.

Lyons, John D. The Listening Voice: An Essay on the Rhetoric of Saint-Amant (Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1982). French Review 58 (1984): 122-24.

Bryson, Norman. Word and Image: French painting of the Ancien Régime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). French Review 58 (1984): 328-29.

Pitou, Serge. The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers and Performers. Genesis and Glory, 1671-1715 (Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1983). French Review 58 (1983): 483-84.

Duchêne, Roger. L’imposture littéraire dans les Provinciales de Pascal (Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence, 1984). Œuvres et Critiques 10 (1985): 163-64.

Ferreyrolles, Gérard. Blaise Pascal: Les Provinciales (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1984). Œuvres et Critiques 10 (1985): 165.

Lafond, Jean et André Stegmann, eds. L’Automne de la renaissance: 1580-1630 (Paris: Vrin, 1981). L’Esprit Créateur 25.1 (1985): 90-91.

Chappuzeau, Samuel. Le Cercle des femmes and L’Académie des femmes. Edition critique par Joan Crow (Exeter: University of Exeter, 1983). Dancourt, Florent Carton. Le Chevalier à la mode. Edition critique par Robert H. Crawshaw (Exeter: University of Exeter, 1980). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 13 (1986): 379-80.

Kintzler, Catherine. Jean Philippe Rameau: Splendeur et naufrage de l’esthétique du plaisir à l’âge classique (Paris: Le Sycomore, 1983). French Review 60 (1987): 575-76.

Pitou, Serge. The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers and Performers. Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815 (Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1983). French Review 60 (1987): 576-77.

Auld, Louis E. The Lyric Art of Pierre Perrin, Founder of French Opera. 3 vols (Henryville/Ottowa/Binningen: Institute of Medi”val Music, Ltd., 1986). French Review 61 (1988): 807-9.

Cohn, Robert Greer. A Critical Work, II. Ways of Art: Literature, Music, Painting in France (Saratoga, California: Amna Libri, 1985). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 28 (1988): 281-82.

Murray, Timothy. Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in Seventeenth-Century England and France (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 30 (1989): 323-25.

Brooks, William. Bibliographie critique du théâtre de Quinault (Tübingen: Biblio 17, 1988). Cahiers du 17e 2.2 (1988): 171-73.

Force, Pierre. Le Problème herméneutiqiue chez Pascal (Paris: Vrin, 1989). The Philology of the Couple. Spec. issue of French Forum 14 (1989): 497-98.

Continuum. Vol. I. (New York: AMS Press, 1989). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 17 (1990): 585-87.

Perrault, Charles. Memoirs of My Life. Ed. and trans. Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 17 (1990): 659-60.

Parish, Richard. Pascal’s Lettres Provinciales. A Study in Polemic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). Continuum 5 (1993): 257-61.

Quinault, Philippe. Bellérophon. Ed. William Brooks and Edmund J. Campion. Paris/Geneva: Droz, 1990. Cahiers du 17e 4.1 (1990): 275-77.

Hollier, Denis, ed. A New History of French Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 18 (1991): 207-9.

Continuum. Vol. II. (New York: AMS Press, 1990). Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 18 (1991): 495-97.

Kintzler, Catherine. Poétique de l’opéra français de Corneille à Rousseau. Paris: Minerve, 1991. French Review 66 (1993): 497-98.

Rubin, David Lee. A Pact with Silence. Art and Thought in the Fables of La Fontaine. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1991. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 21 (1994): 599-601.

Rubin, David Lee, ed. Sun King: The Ascendancy of French Culture during the Reign of Louis XIV. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 21 (1994): 602-4.

Beaussant, Philippe. Lully ou le musicien du soleil. Paris: Gallimard/Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 1992. La Gorce, Jerome de and Herbert Schneider, eds. Jean-Baptiste Lully. Actes du colloque/Kongre”bericht. Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 1990. French Review 67 (1993): 376-78.

Woshinsky, Barbara R. Signs of Certainty: The Linguistic Imperative in French Classical Literature. Saratoga, CA: Amna Libri, 1991. French Review 68 (1994): 340-41.

Quinault, Philippe. Atys. Ed. Stéphane Bassinet. Paris: Droz, 1992. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 20 (1994): 222-23.

La Tragédie lyrique. Paris: Cicero/Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 1992. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 20 (1994): 302-3.

Winn, James Anderson. When Beauty Fires the Blood: Love and the Arts in the Age of Dryden. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. Cahiers du 17e 5 (1991): 301-3.

Franko, Mark. Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 21 (1994): 579-80.

Davidson, Hugh M. Pascal and the Arts of the Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. French Forum 19 (1994): 238-40.

La Gorce, Jérôme. L’Opéra à Paris au temps de Louis XIV. Paris: Desjonquères, 1992. Ed., Louis Ladvocat, Lettres sur l’opéra à l’abbé Dubos. Suivies de Description de la Vie et Mœurs, de l’Exercice et l’Etat des Filles de l’Opéra. Paris: Cicero, 1993. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 22 (1995): 280-81.

Fleck, Stephen H. Music, Dance, and Laughter: Comic Creation in Molière’s Comedy-Ballets. Paris, Seattle, Tübingen: Biblio 17, 1995. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 23 (1996): 376-78.

Schmidt, Carl B., compiler. The Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Tragédies Lyriques: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Performers’ Editions-Broude Brothers, 1995. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 23 (1996): 703-4.

Brooks, W.S. and P.J. Yarrow. The Dramatic Criticism of Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d’Orléans. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996. French Review 70 (1997): 596-97.

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude, ed. Benserade. Livrets de ballet. Toulouse: Littératures Classiques, 1997. Dix-Septième Siècle 200 (1998): 571-72.

Forestier, Georges, ed. Racine. Œuvres complètes I. Théâtre – Poésie. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Paris: Gallimard, 1999. French Review 74 (2000): 137-38.

Bury, Emmanuel. Littérature et politesse: l’invention de l’honnête homme 1580-1750. Paris: PUF, 1996. French Review 74 (2000): 363-64.

Molière. Le Mariage forcé. Ed. Julia Prest. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 1999. French Review 75 (2001): 365-66.

Powell, John S. Music and Theatre in France 1600-1680. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. French Review 76 (2002): 120-21.

Lachaux-Lefebvre, Dany. Le discours dans le spectacle en musique de 1661 à 1686: des comédies de divertissements de Molière aux tragédies lyriques de Quinault. Tübingen: Narr, 2002. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 30 (2003): 557-59.

Spielmann, Guy. Le Jeu de l’Ordre et du Chaos: Comédie et pouvoirs à la Fin de règne, 1673-1715. Paris: Champion, 2002. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 31 (2004):  310-11.

Quinault, Philippe. L’Amant indiscret. Ed. William Brooks. Liverpool: U of Liverpool P, 2003. Pausanias. Ed. William Brooks and Edmond J. Campion. Geneva: Droz, 2004. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 32 (2005):  274-76.

Ranum, Patricia. Portraits around Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Baltimore, 2004. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 32 (2005):  304-05.

 

 

Translations

Raymond Ortali, “From chevelure to rond parfait.” Yale French Studies 47 (1972): 90-97.

Interview with Jean-Claude Malgoire, in Quinault-Lully, Alceste, Disques Montaigne, 1992.

Philippe Quinault, Alceste, Disques Montaigne, 1992.

Introduction to Quinault-Lully, Phaéton, by Jérôme de la Gorce, Disques Erato, 1994.

 

Papers

“City and Country in Saint-Amant.” Iowa State Humanities Symposium, 1974.

“Some Similarities between the Classical and Modern Scientific and Literary Minds.” Iowa State Humanities Symposium, 1975.

“Some Uses of a Concordance: Baudelaire, Flaubert, Mallarmé, Pascal.” Modern Language Association of America, 1975.

“L’Idée de règle chez Pascal.” International Colloquium “Méthodes chez Pascal,” Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1976.

“The Theme of Names and its Relationship to Racinian Tragedy.” Modern Language Association of America, 1979.

“Knowledge, Meaning, and Style in Variants of La Rochefoucauld’s Maximes.” Modern Language Association of America, 1980.

“Nicole’s Essais de Morale: logic and persuasion.” French Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, 1981.

“Editing and Interpreting Fragmentary Texts: A Justification of Pascal’s Text in MSL 527-Br 40.” Conference on “Current Problems in Textual Scholarship,” New York, 1981.

“Ismaël Boulliau: Libertin & Erudit.” Modern Language Association of America, 1981. Co-authored with Robert Hatch

“Tragic and Operatic Style: Phèdre, Hippolyte et Aricie and Bellérophon.” Modern Language Association of America, 1982.

“Pascal and Miracles: Knowledge, Method and Style.” Folger Institute, 1983.

“Flaubert’s Use of Donizetti’s Lucie de Lammermoor in Madame Bovary.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1984.

“Trailing Clouds of Glory: Operatic Elements in Racine’s Mithridate.” Southeastern Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 1984.

“Stylistic Analysis of Pascal’s Pensées on a Micro.” International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, 1985.

“Liturgical Structures in Racine’s Phèdre.” South Central meeting of Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1985.

“Anciens et modernes, tragédie et opéra: la querelle sur Alceste.” Colloque du C.M.R.17, Marseille, 1986.

“The Vocabulary of Quinault’s Opera Libretti: Drama without Drama.” “The Age of Theater in France,” University of Toronto, 1987.

“Connaissance, Méthodes et Styles chez Pascal.” Romanische Seminar, University of Tübingen, 1987.

“Musique et littérature: méthodes et approches.” Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), 1987.

“Vraisemblance in the Tragédie-lyrique.” Southeastern Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 1988.

“The Exile of Reason: The Esthetic of the Tragédie-lyrique.” Modern Language Association of America, 1988.

“Soothing the Savage Beast: Interruption, Seduction, and Retelling in Esther.” Co-authored with Elizabeth G. Joiner. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1989.

“The Lily in the Valley: Hiatus and Recognition in Racine’s Athalie.” Invited paper for Comparative Drama Conference, University of Florida, 1991.

“Le Héros contestataire dans les livrets de Quinault : politique ou esthétique?” Joint meeting of CMR-17 and NASSCFL, Marseille, 1991.

“Les Styles d’Alceste.” Colloque “Penser l’opéra à l’âge classique,” Paris, 1992.

“Les Chemins de la création littéraire : l’exemple des deux Armide de Quinault.” Université de Paris III (Sorbonne), 1992.

“It’s How You Play the Game: The Roll of the Plot in the Tragédies lyriques of Quinault and Lully.” Kentucky Foreign Langauge Conference, 1993.

“‘Le Théâtre est un grand monument’: l’évocation du passé et des passions dans l’Alceste de Quinault.” Colloque International du CIR-17, Kiel, Germany, 1993.

“Taking Things into Your Own Hands: The Hippolytus Myth in Euripides, Seneca, Racine and Pellegrin/Rameau.” Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies, 1993.

“Le Roland de Quinault.” Cycle Lully, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1993.

“La Tragédie lyrique, déca-danse ou apothéose? Le cas d’Isis.” Journée d’étude, “La Pensée de la danse à l’âge classique: écriture, lexique et poétique,” Lille, 1994.

“Le Livret d’opéra à l’époque de Lully.” Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), 1994.”

“Opera as Drama, Opera as Theater: Quinault’s Isis in a Racinocentric World.” Southeastern Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 1995.

“The Best Way to Skin a Cat: Thought and Expression, Words and Music in Quinault and Lully.”  North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1996.

“The Show-woman Shows the Men: Angélique in Quinault’s Roland.” Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 1996.

“What Opera Can Tell Us about French Classicism.” Tenth annual Nicolich Lecture, Catholic University, 1996.

“Remaking a Cultural Icon: Phèdre and the Operatic Stage.” Representing Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie. New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music, May 1997.”

“Comment éditer un monument: la place du texte littéraire dans une édition d’une tragédie lyrique. Les Sources de Lully. Sèvres, France, June 1998.

“Beauty and the Beast: Monsters in Seventeenth-Century French Ballet and Opera.” Modern Language Association of America, 1998.

“Racine et la musique sacrée: poésie, chant, cantiques.” Colloque du Tricentenaire de la Mort de Jean Racine. Paris, 1999.

“What Opera Can Tell Us about French Classicism.” Vanderbilt University, 2000.

“Racine, 1674, and the ‘Querelle d’Alceste.’” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 2000.

“Rivalry and Collaboration in Persée: Mérope, Quinault and Lully.” Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections.

“Quinault’s Libretto for Persée: Looking Backward, Looking Forward. ” University of Toronto, 2000.

“Merveilleux classique, merveilleux chrétien, merveilleux opératique.” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 2001.

“L’Univers nouveau de la tragédie en musique : d’Armide et Renaud à Achille et Polyxène.” Colloque International Campistron et consorts, Toulouse, 2002.

“‘Dans ce désordre extrême, […] Qui pourra nous le faire entendre?’: L’histoire de l’Athalie de Gossec.” Colloque Gossec, Versailles, 2003.

“Musique et théâtre dans Esther et Athalie.” Université de Provence, Aix, 2003.

“The Two Classical Esthetics.” Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

“Where Is the Norm? Where Are the Exceptions?.” Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 2004.

“Les sons des coulisses : Esther et Athalie”, Colloque La scène et la coulisse, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2006.

“Les Songes et les charmes : la represention du merveilleux dans Esther et Athalie.” Neuvième Colloque International du CIR-17, Kiel, Germany, 2006.

“Quinault et l’invention du livret d’opéra français : les « styles » de Cadmus et d’Alceste”, colloque L’Invention de l’opéra français, Paris, Opéra-Comique, 2008.

 

Other Presentations at Professional Meetings

Respondent to “Pascal’s Readers,” by Robert J. Nelson. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1975.

Respondent to “Play in Pascal’s Pensées,” by D. Jaymes. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1979.

Discussant of two papers on the honnête homme. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1981.

Member of panel on Cyrano de Bergerac. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1983.

Organizer and chair of session on literature and music. Inaugural Meeting of the Southeastern Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 1983.

Member of panel on Pascal. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1983.

Organizer and chair of session on “1674 et la musique.” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1985.

Respondent to three papers on seventeenth-century French musical thought. Southeastern Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 1986.

Discussant of two papers on Molière and Racine. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1988.

Organizer and chair of session “L’Opéra miroir d’une époque.” American Association of Teachers of French, Paris, 1989.

Organizer and chair of session “Mimesis and Representation in Seventeenth-Century French Literature.” Modern Language Association of America, 1989.

Discussant of paper on Quinault. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1990.

Organizer and President of 1990 meeting of Southeastern Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 1990.

Organizer and chair of session “Musique et danse au théâtre.” Southeastern Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 1991.

Discussant of four papers on Pascal, Modern Language Association of America, 1991.

Organizer and chair of session “The Sister Arts.” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 1997.

Organizer and chair of session “Scandals, Affairs and Quarrels.” Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 1998.

Organizer and chair of session “Théâtre et Musique.” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Racine et/ou le classicisme, 1999.

Organizer and chair of session “The Baroque: Music and Literature/Music and Liturgy. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 2001.

Chair of session “L’Afrique au théâtre”. Colloque International du CIR-17, Tunis, 2002.

Organizer and chair of session “Arts and Literature”. North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 2003.

Organizer of annual conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 2005.

Lecture on Quinault, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 2008.

Lecture on Molière and Quinault, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 2009.

Lecture on Andromaque de Pitra et Grétry, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 2009.

 

Work in Progress

Website on life and work of Philippe Quinault: www.quinault.info

Website on Racine and Music.

Opera performances in Paris and at court, 1659-1715: an annotated chronology. Database managed by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Work continues on period 1687-1715.