G Rard Genette (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. G rard Genette (born 1930 in Paris) is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude L vi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage. Genette was born in Paris and attended the cole Normale Sup rieure. After leaving the French Communist Party, Genette was a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie during 1957-8. He received his professorship in French literature at the Sorbonne in 1967. In 1970 he and Tzvetan Todorov founded the journal Po tique and he edited a series of the same name for ditions du Seuil. Among other positions, Genette was research director at the cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales and a visiting professor at Yale University.