Michael Riffaterre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Michael Riffaterre

French literary critic

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1924

Place of Birth: Bourganeuf, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 27-May-2006

Profession: romanist, linguist

Nationality: United States, France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Michael Riffaterre

  • Michael or Michel Riffaterre (20 November 1924, Bourganeuf, Creuse – 27 May 2006, New York) was an influential French literary critic and theorist.
  • He pursued a generally structuralist approach.
  • He is well known in particular for his book Semiotics of Poetry, and his conceptions of hypogram and syllepsis.He was born in Bourganeuf, in the Limousin region of France.
  • After receiving the concours gĂ©nĂ©ral prize in French literature he went on to study at the University of Lyon.
  • After World War II he entered the Sorbonne, where he earned his M.A.
  • in classics in 1947, and then became a doctoral student at Columbia University, earning his Ph.D.
  • there in 1955, and remained for his entire academic career.
  • He served as the chairman of the Department of French from 1974-1983.
  • In 1982 he became a University Professor, the highest professorial rank at Columbia. Riffaterre was a Guggenheim Fellow twice, a fellow at Oxford, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an officer in the order of the palmes acadĂ©miques, and held honorary degrees from the UniversitĂ© Blaise-Pascal as well as the Sorbonne.
  • In addition to teaching at Columbia he held visiting professorships at Johns Hopkins, the Collège de France, Yale, Harvard, the City University of New York, and the University of Pennsylvania, and led seminars at the School of Criticism and Theory.
  • He is a past president of the Semiotic Society of America (1986). Riffaterre’s theoretical work has been adopted and adapted in other research fields outside literary theory.
  • For example, Christensen (2016) introduces some of Riffaterre’s concepts to the analysis of work practice at a hospital. He retired in 2004 and died in his home in New York City in 2006.

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