“Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Sorbonne, University of Paris
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Education | Luce Irigaray | LI
took her first degree (an MA in philosophy and literature) at the University of Louvain
in 1955. At this time, she wrote a thesis on the idea of purity in Paul Valéry
's work... |
Education | T. S. Eliot | After the private boys' school Smith Academy
in St Louis (founded by his grandfather) TSE
went on in fall 1906 to Harvard
(where the President was his cousin). He took his BA in literature and... |
Residence | Nawal El Saadawi | |
Employer | Hélène Cixous | HC
became professor of English Literature at the new university. The university soon distinguished itself by attracting an extremely high-quality faculty, though the French government never particularly appreciated its existence. HC
founded the Centre des Recherches en Etudes Féminines |
Education | Hélène Cixous | While working on her doctorate in 1963, HC
travelled to the United States to research James Joyce
's manuscripts for her doctoral thesis, and, in California,, she prepared a second thesis on |
Employer | Hélène Cixous | With a secondary school teaching diploma in English, HC
began teaching in 1959, the year before she began working on her doctoral thesis, at the lycée (a selective secondary school which prepares for university entrance)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
met Jean-Paul Sartre
while both were preparing to write agrégation exams at the Sorbonne
in Paris. Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne. 12 |
politics | Simone de Beauvoir | Towards the end of the first world war SB
's political consciousness was born when she began to see war as both evil and unnecessary. Germans, too, she realised, could suffer and die: she wished... |
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