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Prince, Gerald Joseph was born on November 7, 1942 in Alexandria, Egypt. Son of Tully Rudolph and Marguerite Prince.
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In literature the very act of narration often constitutes a theme: everyone is familiar with narration that interrupts the story, that provides an ironic gloss on the action, that exposes the narrator, that serves to deceive. In Narrative as Theme Gerald Prince offers the first book-length study of the theme of narrative and of the relationship between narrative and truth in fiction. In the first part, theoretical in nature, Prince considers the notion of theme as well as the theme of narrative itself, surveys the research that has come out of that notion, and isolates starting points for the investigation of narrative as theme. Of particular interest to narratologists will be his discussion of the "disnarrated," all those passages of a text that consider what did not or does not happen but oculd have. He shows how the disnarrated is an important guide to reading the theme of narrative. The second part focuses on seven French novels: Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, Voltaire's Candide, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sartre's La Nausée, Maupassant's Bel-Ami, Claude Simon's La Route des Flandres, and Patrick Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures. Written in first and third person, absorbed or not in the act of narration, variously concerned with history, ethics, and psychology, these classical, modern, and postmodern works exemplify basic positions with regard to the truth or value of narrative. His Dictionary of Narratology, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1987, confirmed Gerald Prince as one of the world's leading narratologists.
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History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in novels, cartoons, or case studies. Indispensable to writers, critics, and scholars in many fields, A Dictionary of Narratology provides quick and reliable access to terms and concepts that are defined, illustrated, and cross-referenced. All entries are keyed to articles or books in which the terms originated or are exemplified. This revised edition contains additional entries and updates some existing ones.
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Prince, Gerald Joseph was born on November 7, 1942 in Alexandria, Egypt. Son of Tully Rudolph and Marguerite Prince.
Bachelor of Arts, Brooklyn College, 1963. Master of Arts, University Florida, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1968.
Instructor French language University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1967-1968, assistant professor, 1968-1973, associate professor, 1973-1981, professor Romance languages, since 1981. Chairman comparative literature program, 1984-1987. Co-director Center Cultural Studies, since 1987.
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Member Modern Language Association, Northeast Modern Language Association (officer 1983-1986), American Comparative Literature Association (advisory board 1983-1987), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Delta Phi.
Married Ellen Friedman, June 25, 1967.