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Eugenio Donato (17 August 1937 – 19 September 1983) was an Armenian-Italian
deconstruction
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ist,
literary critic
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, and "philosophical critic". Raised in Egypt, and educated in France, he played an important role in teaching Americans how to read
post-structural theory.
He edited, with
Richard A. Macksey, the book ''The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man''.
Donato died on September 19, 1983, aged 46.
Eugenio Donato, French and Italian: Irvine
/ref> His book ''The Script of Decadence: Essays on the Fictions of Flaubert and the Poetics of Romanticism'' was published posthumously by Oxford University Press in 1993. His archives are held at the University of California, Irvine.
See also
* Rodolphe Gasché (he currently holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo
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)
*Jacques Derrida
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*Critical theory
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*Deconstruction
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*Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert ( , ; ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realis ...
References
Sources
Library of Congress
*''Paris to the Moon'' (2000) Gopnik, Adam
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: Vintage Publishing
External links
Texts
*http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/search?q=au%3AEugenio+Donato&qt=hot_author
*http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Eugenio_Donato.html
Archival collections
Guide to the Eugenio Donato Papers MS.C.009.
Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Guide to the Marli Shoop Audio Recordings of Eugenio Donato and Wolfgang Iser Lectures.
Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
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1937 births
1983 deaths
Critical theorists