James Ronald Ronald Lawler

Background

Lawler, James Ronald was born on August 15, 1929 in Melbourne, Australia.

Education

Bachelor, University Melbourne, 1950. Master of Arts, University Melbourne, 1952. DUniv., University Paris, 1954.

Career

Lecturer in French, University of Queensland 1955-1956. Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne 1956-1962. Professor, of French.

Head of Department. University of Western Australia 1963-1971. Professor, of French, Chairman, University of California, Los Angeles 1971-1974. McCulloch Professor, of French, Dalhousie University 79.

Professor, of Romance Languages, University of Chicago 1979-1983. Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor. University of Chicago since 1983.

Visiting Professor College de France 1985. Vice-President Association Institute des Etudes Francaise?. Carnegie Fellowship 1961-1962.

Commonwealth Interchange Visitor 1967. Guggenheim Fellowship 1974. National Endowment of Humanities Fellowship 1984-1985.

Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy, of the Human ities. Officier, Palmes academiques. Prix Institute des Amities Francoises 1986.

Achievements

• Achievements include research in modern French poetry, poetics, 20th century novel.

Works

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  • Rene Char: The Myth and the Poem (Princeton Essays in Literature)

    ( Although René Char's distinctive voice has brought him ...)

  • The Language of French Symbolism

    ( The Description for this book, The Language of French S...)

  • Edgar Poe et les poetes francais (Conferences, essais et lecons du College de France) (French Edition)

    (Book by Lawler, James R)

  • Lecture De Valery: Une Etude De Charmes
  • Lecture de Valery : une etude de Charmes / par James R. Lawler
  • Poet as Analyst: Essays on Paul Valery
  • The poet as analyst : essays on Paul ValGery
  • Rene Char; the Myth and the Poem
  • Dalhousie French Studies October 1983
  • Poet as Analyst: Essays on Paul Valery
  • James Joyce. Gens de Dublin : EDublinerse. Traduit de l'anglais par Yva Fernandez, Hélène Du Pasquier, Jacques-Paul Reynaud. Préface de Valery Larbaud

• Other Work

  • Author: Form and Meaning in Valery's Le Cimetiere Marin, 1959, Lecture de Valery: Une Etude de Charmes, 1963, The Language of French Symbolism, 1969, The Poet as Analyst, 1974, Rene Char: The Myth and the Poem, 1978, Edgar Poe et les Poetes Francais, 1989, Rimbaud's Theatre of the Self, 1992, Poetry and Moral Dialectic: Baudelaire's Secret Architecture, 1997. Co-author: Paul Valery. Poems, 1971, Paul Valery: Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme, 1972, Paul Claudel: Knowing the East, 2004, Edgar Allan Poe: Histoires, Essais, Poèmes, 2007.Editor: An Anthology of French Poetry, 1960, Paul Valery: An Anthology, 1977, Paul Valery, 1991, Rimbaud Vivant. Founding editor Essays in French Literature, 1964, Dalhousie French Studies, 1980.

Membership

Member Modern Language Association (council 1978-1982), International Association French Studies (president 1998-2001), Australian Academy the Humanities, Society Amis de Rimbaud (president since 2006).

Connections

Married Christiane Labossiere in 1954.

Spouse:

Christiane Labossiere