Background
Morrissette, Bruce Archer was born on April 26, 1911 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of James Archer Morrissette.
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"Since the late 1950s," writes James R. Lawler in his Foreword to this volume, "Morrissette has stood as one of the most incisive explicators of the nouveau roman, of its past and present affiliations, of its interaction with the cinema." The influential essays collected in Novel and Film display a wide range of critical and analytic approaches to the narrative aspects of the two genres. For all the variety of their subjects, from constructional forms such as interior duplication and game play to intertextual parallels with mathematics and topology, these essays together define a unified critical perspective, one that has brought fresh precision to the analysis of narrative techniques and that continues to raise questions of prime importance to contemporary fiction. Included is a complete bibliography of Morrissette's scholarly works.
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Morrissette, Bruce Archer was born on April 26, 1911 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of James Archer Morrissette.
Bachelor of Arts, University Richmond, 1931; the Doctor of Letters, University Richmond, 1975; Docteur d'Université, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1933; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1938.
Junior instructor French, Johns Hopkins University, 1934-1938;
from assistant professor to professor Romance languages, Washington University, St. Louis, 1938-1962;
visiting professor, University of Wisconsin, 1962;
professor French literature, University of Chicago, since 1962;
member board publications, University of Chicago, 1963-1966;
department chairman Romance languages and literature, University of Chicago, 1967-1970, 73-76;
Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service professor, University of Chicago, since 1974. Visiting professor University of Illinois at Urbana, 1967-1968, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969. Fulbright lecturer U. Western Australia, 1969.
Lecturer colleges, universities.
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Member Christian Gauss Prize Award Committee, 1967-1969. Member Modern Language Association American (executive council 1962-1966), American Association of University Professors, American Association Teachers French, Society des Professeurs Francais, Association International des Etudes Francaises, Society des Rosettes et Rubans de France.
Married Dorothy Behrens, October 12, 1940. 1 child, James.