Micheline Tison-Braun
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Micheline Lucie Tison-Braun (née Tison; born 7 April 1913) is a French academic. Originally a broadcaster for the BBC during World War II, she was originally a teacher at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and the Lycée Français de Londres before moving to the United States to become a United Nations official. She worked as a full professor at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a teacher at the Lycée Français de New York and École libre des hautes études.
She wrote several books in fields such as literary studies and art history, including La crise de l'humanisme (1958, 1967), Nathalie Sarraute ou la Recherche de l'authenticité (1971), Tristan Tzara (1977), Poétique du paysage (1980), L'Introuvable origine (1981), Ce monstre incomparable: Malraux ou l'énigme du moi (1983), Marguerite Duras (1985), and Le Moi décapité (1990). She was a 1978 Guggenheim Fellow and won the Prix Roland-de-Jouvenel in 1984.
Biography
Micheline Lucie Tison was born on 7 April 1913 in Arras, daughter of Lucie (née Duchat) and industrialist Eugène Tison, and she attended the Collège de jeunes filles d'Arras.[1] She obtained a licence ès lettres from the University of Lille in 1933, a diplôme d'études supérieures from the University of Algiers 1 in 1935, and an agrégation ès lettres from the University of Paris in 1937.[2]
She worked as a professor at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and the Lycée Français de Londres from 1937 to 1942.[2] During World War II, she worked for the BBC as a writer and editor for their French-language foreign-service broadcasts.[1] Afterwards, she returned to the Institut français and Lycée Français from 1945 to 1946.[2] She moved to New York City in 1947,[3] where started working at the headquarters of the United Nations that year as a writer and translator.[2] In 1954, she left the UN and joined the Lycée Français de New York as a French professor, before moving to Hunter College in 1960.[2] She joined the CUNY Graduate Center in 1968, and she was promoted in both institutions from associate professor to full professor in 1974.[2] She also worked at the École libre des hautes études as a French professor.[2] In 1970, she obtained a doctorat d'État ès lettres from the University of Paris.[2]
She wrote several books in fields such as literary studies and art history, including the two-volume La crise de l'humanisme (1958, 1967), Nathalie Sarraute ou la Recherche de l'authenticité (1971), Tristan Tzara (1977), Poétique du paysage (1980), L'Introuvable origine (1981), Ce monstre incomparable: Malraux ou l'énigme du moi (1983), and Le Moi décapité (1990).[1] In 1978,[4] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study on the crisis of personality in French literature from 1890 to 1970".[2] She won the 1984 Prix Roland-de-Jouvenel for Ce monstre incomparable,[5] and she was appointed an Officier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.[3] Françoise Dorenlot remarked: "Having never actively sought honors or distinctions, she found that they came to her; and having never cultivated popularity, she is nonetheless surrounded by the affectionate admiration of all—both colleagues and students alike. Undoubtedly, these marks of respect come as no surprise, given the caliber of Professor Tison-Braun’s scholarly work and teaching."[3]
On 1 April 1948, she married Lev Braun,[1] a Czechoslovak broadcaster for Radio Free Europe and the BBC who later became a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University; they were married until his death.[3][6] She lived in the Upper West Side.[1]
Bibliography
- La crise de l'humanisme: Le conflit de l'individu et de la société dans la littérature française moderne (1958, 1967)[a]
- Nathalie Sarraute ou la Recherche de l'authenticité (1971)[b]
- Dada et Surréalisme (1973)[1]
- Tristan Tzara: Inventeur de l'homme nouveau (1977)[c]
- Poétique du paysage: Essai sur le genre descriptif (1980)[d]
- L'Introuvable origine: Le Problème de la personnalité au seuil du XXe siècle: Flaubert, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Valéry, Bergson, Claudel, Gide, Proust (1981)[e]
- Ce monstre incomparable: Malraux ou l'énigme du moi (1983)[f]
- Marguerite Duras (1985)[g]
- Le Moi décapité: le problème de la personnalité dans la littérature française contemporaine (1990)[h]
- L'Esprit créateur (1991)[1]
Notes
- ↑ Reviews of this book: [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
- ↑ Reviews of this book: [16][17][18]
- ↑ Reviews of this book: [19][20]
- ↑ Reviews of this book: [21][22]
- ↑ Reviews of this book: [23][24][25][26][27][28][29]
- ↑ Reviews of this book: [30][31][32]
- ↑ Reviews of this book: [33][34][35][36][37]
- ↑ Reviews of this book: [38][39][40]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Who's who in France. 1998. p. 1647.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1977. p. 13.
- 1 2 3 4 Dorenlot, Françoise (1994). "Le centre absent: Introduction". L'Esprit Créateur (in French). 34 (3): 3–13. doi:10.1353/esp.1994.0049. ISSN 1931-0234.
- ↑ "Micheline L. Braun". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ "Prix Roland de Jouvenel". Académie française (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- ↑ "Obituary 1 -- No Title". New York Times. 4 November 1997. p. D27. ProQuest 109721180.
- ↑ Bancquart, Marie-Claire (1969). "Review of La crise de l'humanisme. Le conflit de la société dans la littérature française moderne". Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France. 69 (1): 156–157. ISSN 0035-2411. JSTOR 40523451.
- ↑ Digeon, Claude (1961). "Review of La crise de l'humanisme. Le conflit de l'individu et de la société dans la littérature française moderne". Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France. 61 (4): 630–631. ISSN 0035-2411. JSTOR 40523784.
- ↑ Knapp, Bettina L. (1987). "Review of La Crise de l'humanisme 1890-1914. I". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 16 (1/2): 213–215. ISSN 0146-7891. JSTOR 23532106.
- ↑ Laitenberger, Hugo (1964). "Review of La crise de l'humanisme. Le conflit de l'individu et de la société dans la littérature française moderne. Tome I. 1890—1914". Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur. 74 (2): 182–187. ISSN 0044-2747. JSTOR 40616042.
- ↑ Peyre, Henri (1960). "Review of La Crise De L'Humanisme". The French Review. 33 (4): 427–430. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 383666.
- ↑ Peyre, Henri (1968). "Review of La Crise de l'humanisme. Le Conflit de l'individu et de la société dans la littérature française moderne". The French Review. 41 (5): 765–769. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 386108.
- ↑ Roellenbleck, Georg (1963). "Review of La crise de l'humanisme. Le conflit de l'individu et de la société dans la littérature française moderne. Tome I, 1890–1914". Romanische Forschungen. 75 (1/2): 180–182. ISSN 0035-8126. JSTOR 27937022.
- ↑ Roellenbleck, Georg (1968). "Review of La crise de l'humanisme. Le conflit de l'individu et de la société dans la littérature française moderne. Tome II, 1914–1939". Romanische Forschungen. 80 (4): 591–594. ISSN 0035-8126. JSTOR 27937518.
- ↑ Starr, William T. (1969). "Review of La Crise de l'humanisme. Le Conflit de l'individu et de la société dans la littérature française moderne, tome II, 1914-1939". The French Review. 42 (4): 632–633. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 385670.
- ↑ Knapp, Bettina L. (1972). "Review of Nathalie Sarraute ou La recherche de l'authenticité". Books Abroad. 46 (3): 433–433. doi:10.2307/40126297. ISSN 0006-7431. JSTOR 40126297.
- ↑ Schwarcz, Judith (1972). "Review of Nathalie Sarraute ou la Recherche de l'authenticité". The French Review. 46 (1): 171–173. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 387225.
- ↑ Wehle, W. (1973). "Review of Nathalie Sarraute ou la Recherche de l'authenticité". Romanische Forschungen. 85 (3): 414–416. ISSN 0035-8126. JSTOR 27938008.
- ↑ Caws, Mary Ann (1979). "Review of Tristan Tzara: Inventeur de l'homme nouveau". The French Review. 52 (3): 495–496. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 389965.
- ↑ Knapp, Bettina (1977). "Review of Tristan Tzara inventeur de l'Homme Nouveau". L'Esprit Créateur. 17 (3): 274–275. ISSN 0014-0767. JSTOR 26280596.
- ↑ Caws, M. A. (1981). "Review of Poétique du paysage: Essai sur le genre descriptif". World Literature Today. 55 (2): 279–279. doi:10.2307/40136013. ISSN 0196-3570. JSTOR 40136013.
- ↑ Knapp, Bettina L. (1981). "Review of Poétique de paysage: Essai sur le genre descriptif". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 10 (1/2): 163–164. ISSN 0146-7891. JSTOR 44627570.
- ↑ Baer, Marie-France Etienne (1983). "Review of L'Introuvable origine: Le Problème de la personnalité au seuil du XXe siècle: Flaubert, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Valéry, Bergson, Claudel, Gide, Proust". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 11 (3/4): 386–387. ISSN 0146-7891. JSTOR 23536437.
- ↑ Jourdan, Pierre (1985). "Review of L'Introuvable Origine". Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France. 85 (2): 328–329. ISSN 0035-2411. JSTOR 40529770.
- ↑ Knapp, Bettina L. (1983). "Review of L'Introuvable origine". MLN. 98 (4): 826–829. doi:10.2307/2905924. ISSN 0026-7910. JSTOR 2905924.
- ↑ McLees, Ainslie Armstrong (1983). "Review of L'Introuvable Origine: Le Problème de la personnalité au seuil du vingtième siècle". The French Review. 57 (1): 113–114. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 391091.
- ↑ Mitchell, Bonner (1983). "Review of L'introuvable origine, le problème de la personnalité au seuil du XXe siècle: Flaubert, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Valéry, Bergson, Claudel, Gide". World Literature Today. 57 (1): 64–64. doi:10.2307/40138501. ISSN 0196-3570. JSTOR 40138501.
- ↑ Peschel, Enid Rhodes (1983). "Review of L'Introuvable Origine: Le problème de la personnalité au seuil du XX e siècle Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, 199". French Forum. 8 (3): 282–283. ISSN 0098-9355. JSTOR 40551402.
- ↑ Theis, Raimund (1983). "Review of L'introuvable origine. Le problème de la personnalité au seuil du XX e siècle. Flaubert, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Valéry, Bergson, Claudel, Gide, Proust. (Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, 199)". Romanische Forschungen. 95 (3): 367–370. ISSN 0035-8126. JSTOR 27939198.
- ↑ Kline, T. Jefferson (1986). "Review of Ce monstre imcomparable...: Malraux ou l'énigme du moi". The French Review. 60 (2): 266–267. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 394078.
- ↑ Knapp, Bettina L. (1984). "Review of Ce Monstre incomparable". SubStance. 13 (3/4): 151–152. doi:10.2307/3684787. ISSN 0049-2426. JSTOR 3684787.
- ↑ Moatti, Christiane (1986). "Review of Ce Monstre incomparable... Malraux ou l'énigme du moi". Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France. 86 (2): 347–349. ISSN 0035-2411. JSTOR 40528537.
- ↑ Ames, Sanford S. (1986). "Review of Marguerite Duras". SubStance. 15 (3): 110–111. doi:10.2307/3684724. ISSN 0049-2426. JSTOR 3684724.
- ↑ Borgomano, Madeleine (1987). "Review of Marguerite Duras". Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France. 87 (4): 788–789. ISSN 0035-2411. JSTOR 40528893.
- ↑ Meaken, David (1986). "Review of Marguerite Duras". The Modern Language Review. 81 (2): 494–495. doi:10.2307/3729766. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3729766.
- ↑ Morgan, Janice (1987). "Review of Marguerite Duras". The French Review. 61 (2): 299–300. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 393937.
- ↑ Ostrovsky, Erika (1990). "Review of Marguerite Duras". L'Esprit Créateur. 30 (1): 98–98. ISSN 0014-0767. JSTOR 26285948.
- ↑ Dorenlot, Françoise-E. (1995). "Review of Le Moi décapité: le problème de la personnalité dans la littérature française contemporaine". The French Review. 68 (5): 882–883. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 397877.
- ↑ Knapp, Bettina L. (1990). "Review of Le Moi décapité. Le Problème de la personnalité dans la littérature française contemporaine". L'Esprit Créateur. 30 (4): 114–116. ISSN 0014-0767. JSTOR 26286002.
- ↑ Zaiser, Rainer (1991). "Review of Le Moi décapité. Le Problème de la personnalité dans la littérature française contemporaine. (Reading Plus 6)". Romanische Forschungen. 103 (1): 118–119. ISSN 0035-8126. JSTOR 27940188.
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