Alain Viala
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Alain Viala is a professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford
and at the University of Paris
III and a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
. He works mainly on the French literature of the 17th century
.
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
and at the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
III and a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m....
. He works mainly on the French literature of the 17th century
French literature of the 17th century
17th-century French literature was written throughout the Grand Siècle of France, spanning the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria and the reign of Louis XIV of France...
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Publications
- La Culture littéraire (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2009)
- La France galante (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, collection "Les littéraires", 2008)
- With Dinah Ribard, Le Tragique, La Bibliothèque (Paris: Gallimard, 2002)
- With C. Jouhaud, De la publication (Paris: Fayard, 2002)
- With Paul Aron and Denis Saint-Jacques, Le dictionnaire du litteraire (Paris: P.U.F., 2002)
- "L'empire de l'Asie", in: Racine et l'Orient (Tübingen: Biblio 17, 2003), 12-135
- Lettre à Rousseau sur l'intérêt littéraire (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2006)
- Histoire du théâtre (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2006)
- Racine. La stratégie du caméléon (Paris, Seghers, 1990)
- Naissance de l'écrivain (Paris, Minuit, 1985)
- "Argent, litterature et propagande: ecrivains du Roi-Soileil" (1991)