PER NYKROG
Smith Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus
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Professor Nykrog was born 1925 in Copenhagen and is a Danish national. He is living in Cambridge, MA and in Madison, WI. He can be reached by email at nykrog@fas.harvard.edu. |
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Academic dates:
1945-53: Copenhagen University
1952: cand.mag (French and Latin)
1952: Gold Medal for prize essay “The Names of the Days of the Week in the Romance Languages” (in Danish, unpublished)
1952-79: Aarhus University
1953 Lecturer in French
1957: Dr. phil. (“Les Fabliaux“)
1957: Professor of Romance Languages
1965: Promoted Knight of the Order of Dannebrog
1970-71: Visiting professor at Harvard University
1975: Elected Member of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters
1978: Invited to give Lecture at the Collège de France, Paris
Since 1979: Harvard University:
1979: Professor of Romance Languages
1986-1991: Chairman of Department of Romance Languages
1992 Promoted Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite National
1988: Appointed Smith Professor of French and Spanish
1999: Honored with Festschrift of articles by friends and colleagues The World and its Rival, Kathryn Karczewska and Tom Conley eds.
1998: Professor Emeritus
Publications
Books:
Les Fabliaux – Etude d’Histoire Littéraire et de Stylistique Médiévale. Dissertation for the Doctorat, Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1957, Reprint Droz, Geneva 1973.
La Pensée de Balzac dans la Comédie humaine , Munksgaard Copenhagen 1965 – later Klincksieck, Paris (out of print).
L’Amour et la Rose - Le Grand Dessein de Jean de Meung. Harvard Studies in Romance Languages 41 Cambridge MA 1986.
La Recherche du Don Perdu – Points de Repère dans le Roman de Marcel Proust Harvard Studies in Romance Languages 42 Cambridge MA 1987.
Chrétien de Troyes Romancier Discutable, Droz Geneva 1996.
Significant Articles:
“Dilun–lun–lundi – Une Mise au Point” in Studia Neophilologica 26, Upsal, Sweden 1954.
“Les Etapes des Amours de Jacques” in Etudes romanes dédiées à Andreas Blinkenberg, Per Nykrog ed., Orbis Litterarum, Supplementum 3, Copenhagen 1963.
“Thélème, Panurge et la Dive Bouteille” in Revue d’Histoire littéraire de la France 65, Paris 1965, reprinted in Rabelais, Wege der Forschung, Darmstadt 1973.
“La Composition du Roland d’Oxford”, in Romania 88, Paris 1967.
“Le Mythe de la “bourgeoiseté” dans les Mythologies de Roland Barthes” in Actes du 4e Congrès des Romanistes scandinaves Copenhagen 1967.
“Two Creators of Narrative Form in Twelfth-Century France: Gautier d’Arras – Chrétien de Troyes” in Speculum 48. Cambridge MA1973.
“Le Jeu d’Adam – Une Interprétattion” in On the Rise of the Vernacular Literatures in the Middle Ages, Manitoba, Canada 1974.
“The Rise of Literary Fiction”, Cambridge MA 1977, publ. in Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century, R.L. Benson and G Constable eds., Cambridge MA 1982.
“Les Ambiguîtés du Jehan de Saintré”. Lecture given at the Collège de France 1978, in [Pré]publications, Aarhus U, 1979.
“’Ça ne veut pas rien dire’ - Sur la Lettre de Rimbaud à Izambard, le 13 Mai 1871,” in Romanic Review 74, New York 1983.
“The Literary Cousins of the Stock Market: On Mystification and Demystification in the Baroque Age,” in Stanford French Review 7 Saratoga CA 1983.
“In the Ruins of the Past – Reading Beckett Intertextually” in Comparative Literature 36, Eugene Oregon 1984.
“Playing Games with fiction: Les xv joyes de Mariage – Il Corbaccio -- El Arcipreste de Talavera” in The Craft of Fiction, Essays in Medieval Poetics, L. A. Arrathoon ed. Rochester 1984.
“Les Fabliaux in California” in Romance Philology 42 1989.
“A la Veille du Grand Adieu: Sur les “Idéogrammes lyriques” d’Apollinaire” in Romanic Review 80, New York 1989.
“Sartre penned by Camus 1953-55” in Writing Lives: Sartre, Beauvoir, and (Auto)biography Susan R. Suleiman ed., L’Esprit Créateur, Baton Rouge 1989.
“La Tentation du Père Alexis: ‘Spiridion’ ou l’Agonie du Christianisme “in George Sand, Revue des Sciences humaines 226, Paris 1992.
“On Seeing and Nothingness: Balzac’s ‘Sarrazine’” in Romanic Review 83, New York 1992.
“Peau de chagrin – Peau d’Ane” in L’Annee balzacienne 14, Paris 1993.
“A Warrior-scholar at the Collège de France: Joseph Bédier” inMedievalism and the Modernist Temper, S. Nichols and and H.R. Bloch eds , Baltimore 1996.
“Obscene or not Obscene: On Lady Reason, Jean de Meung and the Fisherman from Pont-seur Seine” inObscenity, Social Control and Artistic Creativity in the European Middle Ages, J. Ziolkowski ed., Leiden 1998.
“Pulling Rabbits out of an old Hat: Alceste and Célimène” in The W0rld and its Rival - Essays on Literary Imagination in Honor of Per Nykrog, K. Karczewska and T. Conley eds, Amsterdam 1999.
“VEUF : Croquis pour une Lecture Naîve” in Claude Simon 3, Lectures d’’Histoire”’ R. Sarkonak ed., Revue des Lettres modernes, Paris 2000.
“’Trois Contes’ comme Vision d’Histoire” in George Sand Studies 23, Medford MA 2004.
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