The art of interpretation
The art of interpretation

Summary/Abstract: Ann Jefferson (1949) is a British scholar, Professor at the University of Oxford and the author of seven books on French literature, including: The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction (1980), Reading Realism in Stendhal (1988), Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference (2000), Stendhal: La Chartreuse de Parme(2003), Biography and the Question of Literature in France (2007) and Genius in France: An Idea and its Uses (2014) and Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between (2020). She also co-edited Modern Literary Theory (1982) with David Robey. In 2004 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. She was a visiting professor at Columbia University (USA) and the Sorbonne, Paris (France). Since 2015 she has been an Emeritus Fellow of New College (Oxford).

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