Paul Zumthor
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Paul Zumthor, was a medievalist, literary historian and linguist. He was Swiss-born, from Geneva
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He studied in Paris with Gustave Cohen, and worked on French etymology with Walther von Wartburg
. In studying medieval French poetry, he formulated the concept of mouvance (variability).. He also emphasised "vocality" in medieval poetry, the place of the human voice
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He held two major professorial positions, at the University of Amsterdam from 1952 and at the Université de Montréal
from 1971 to 1980, when he became emeritus. In 1992, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec
.
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
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He studied in Paris with Gustave Cohen, and worked on French etymology with Walther von Wartburg
Walther von Wartburg
Walther von Wartburg was a Swiss philologist and lexicographer. He was the author of the Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch ....
. In studying medieval French poetry, he formulated the concept of mouvance (variability).. He also emphasised "vocality" in medieval poetry, the place of the human voice
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...
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He held two major professorial positions, at the University of Amsterdam from 1952 and at the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
from 1971 to 1980, when he became emeritus. In 1992, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec
National Order of Quebec
The National Order of Quebec, termed officially in French as l'Ordre national du Québec, and in English abbreviation as the Order of Quebec, is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Quebec...
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Works
- Merlin le prophète. Un thème de la littérature polémique, de l'historiographie et des romans (1943)
- Antigone ou l'espérance. (1945)
- Victor Hugo poète de Satan (1946)
- Saint Bernard de Clairvaux (1947) with Albert Béguin
- Positions actuelles de la linguistique et de l'histoire littéraire (1948)
- Lettres de Héloïse et Abélard (1950)
- Abréviations composées (1951)
- L'Inventio dans la poésie française archaïque (1952)
- Miroirs de l'Amour. Tragédie et Préciosité.(1952)
- Histoire littéraire de la France médiévale (VIe-XIVe siècles). (1954)
- Charles le Chauve (1957)
- La griffe, Paris (1957)
- Précis de syntaxe du francais contemporain (1958) with Walther von WartburgWalther von WartburgWalther von Wartburg was a Swiss philologist and lexicographer. He was the author of the Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch ....
- La Vie quotidienne en Hollande au temps De Rembrandt (1960) as Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland (1962) translated by Simon Watson Taylor
- Les Contrebandiers (1962)
- Langue et techniques poétiques à l'époque romane (XIe - XIIIe siècles) (1963)
- Un prêtre montheysan et le sac de Liège en 1468.'La Complainte de la Cité de Liège', poème inédit.(1963) editor with Willem Nooman
- Guillaume le Conquérant et la civilisation de son temps . (1964)
- Roman et Gothique: deux aspects de la poésie médiévale (1966)
- Essai de poétique médiévale.(1972)
- Langue, texte, énigme (1975)
- Anthologie des grands rhétoriqueurs (1978)
- La Masque et la lumière (1978)
- Parler du Moyen âge (1980) translated as Speaking of the Middle Ages (1986) by Sarah White
- Introduction à la poésie orale (1983) as Oral Poetry: An Introduction (1990)
- La Poésie et la Voix dans la civilisation médiévale (1984)
- Jeux de mémoire: aspects de la mnémotechnie médiévale (1986) with Bruno Roy
- Midi le Juste (1986) poems
- La Fête des fous (1987) novel
- La Lettre et la Voix (1987)
- Point de fuite (1989)
- Écriture et nomadisme: entretiens et essais (1990)
- La Traversée (1991)
- La mesure du monde (1993)
- La Porte à côté (1994)
- Fin en Soi (1996) poems
- Babel ou l'inachèvement (1997)
Further reading
- Christopher Lucken (1998), Paul Zumthor, ou l'invention permanente: critique, histoire, poésie. At Google Books.