Jean-Claude Carron

Jean-Claude CARRON. Doctorat es Lettres (PhD), University of Geneva, Switzerland. Professor. Previously taught French at the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne in Milan (Italy) and at St-John's and Queen's Colleges, Oxford (UK). Specialist of Renaissance studies and poetry. Currently working on the concept of poetic imitation and on philosophical dialogues as a literary genre. Among his publications: Discours de l'errance amoureuse: Une lecture du 'canzoniere' de Pontus de Tyard (Paris: Vrin, 1986), (Editor) François Rabelais: Critical Assessments (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), "Originality and (anti-)imitation in the Renaissance" (Forthcoming, Lexington KY: French Forum Publishers), and a number of articles on Renaissance history of ideas, philosophical dialogue, poetry, Mallarmé, Montaigne, etc.

Forthcoming Publications

"Originalité et (anti-)imitation à la Renaissance en France." Book-length manuscript accepted by French Forum.

"Interférences dialogiques et "efficace" littéraire dans les Dialogues philosophiques." To be published in the Acts of the University of Paris-Créteil's colloquium on Pontus de Tyard (November 1998)

"Le Dialogue amoureux." To be published in the Acts of the First Isidore Silver Memorial Colloquium, Washington University, Saint-Louis

Presentations

"Interférences dialogiques et "efficace" littéraire dans les Dialogues philosophiques." University of Paris-Créteil's colloquium on Pontus de Tyard (November 1998)

"Love, Knowledge, and Representation, from Petrarch to Montaigne." Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles (March 1999)

"Poetical imitation in 16th-century France." Roundtable, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (October, 99)

"Le dialogue amoureux." First Isidore Silver Memorial Colloquium, Washington University, Saint-Louis (October 1999)

"The Meaning and Use of Dialogue in the Discours philosophiques" de Tyard." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Florence - Italy (March 2000)

"The Cymbalum Mundi: jeu dialogique." Colloquium Bonaventure des Périers, University of Rome (Fall 2000).

Session chair

"Female Self-fashioning in the Renaissance." Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (May 2000).

Grant

The Borchard Foundation. Financial support to organize the colloquium "Can't we live together? Autour de l'Edit de Nantes." La Bretesche (France), August 1998

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