Jacqueline Assaël (born 7 August 1957,

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) is a French

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and a professor of

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and literature at the

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since 2004. She is also an essayist and poet. Assaël is a specialist in the works of the tragic Greek poet

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, and she has also published works on the phenomenon of poetic inspiration in

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. Also a

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, she has also created some works of New Testament

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Biography

Jacqueline Assaël studied

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at the

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, where she obtained a doctorate in 1987. After passing the

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in 1980, she taught in high schools, first in

and then in

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. In 1983 she was named assistant professor of Greek at the

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, then went to the

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in 1990. She was promoted to the role of professor there in 2004. She began to publish poetry and essays in 1999, in journals (''Souffles'', ''Encres vives'', ''ARPA'', ''Autre Sud'', ''La main millénaire'', ''Recours au poème'', ''Nunc'', ''Les Cahiers du Sens'') and with various publishing houses (La Porte, Clapàs, Corlevour, etc.). Patrick Cabanel remarks that "these titles reveal that this poetry mixes, as

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would have said, at least three Mediterraneans: Greek, Judeo-Christian, and 'Cévenole,' in the broad sense." She is a member of the editorial committees of the journals ''Loxias'' and ''Foi et Vie''.

Published works

Academic works

* ''Intellectualité et théâtralité dans l’œuvre d’Euripide, ''Publ. de la Fac. des Lettres de Nice, 1993. * Jacqueline Assaël (éd.), ''L’antique notion d’inspiration'', revue ''Noesis'', 4, 2000,

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, 2001. Prix Zappas 2002. * Jacqueline Assaël (éd.), ''Labyrinthes et métamorphoses'', Actes de la table ronde « Œdipe, Sisyphe, Ovide aujourd’hui », Nice, Faculté des Lettres, 31 mars 2005, in ''Résurgence des mythes'', N° spécial 212 de la revue ''Souffles'',

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, décembre 2005. * ''Pour une poétique de l’inspiration, d’Homère à Euripide'', Peeters, Namur, 2006. * ''L’épître de Jacques'', Labor et Fides,

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, 2013 (en collaboration avec Élian Cuvillier). * ''« Au miroir de la Parole ». Lecture de l’épître de Jacques'', (Cahiers Évangile 167),

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, Éditions du Cerf, 2014 (en collaboration avec Élian Cuvillier). * Euripide. ''Alceste,'' dans les ''Silves grecques 2015-2016'', Neuilly, Éditions Atlande, 2015. * Jacqueline Assaël (éd.),'' Euripide et l'imagination aérienne'', 2015, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. Thyrse, 6. * Jacqueline Assaël (éd., en collaboration avec Andreas Markantonatos), "Orphism and Greek Tragedy", ''Trends in Classics'', Berlin, De Gruyter, 2016, 8/2.

Poetry

* ''De l’âpreté des drailles'', Colomiers, Encres vives, 2000. * ''Voilier - Sirène'', ''Encres Vives'', Colomiers, 2001. * ''Place de l’Horloge et contrepoint'', ''Encres Vives'', Colomiers, 2001. * ''Dionysiaques'', ''Encres Vives'', Colomiers, 2002. * ''Circé des amours libertaires'', ''Encres Vives'', Colomiers, 2002. * ''Le faune du vieil étang ermite'', La Porte,

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, 2002. * ''Janus et la méduse'', La licorne,

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, 2004. * ''Catalyse'', Souffles, Montpellier, 2008. * ''Gospel pour un peintre'', Clapàs,

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, 2009. * ''Les orpailleurs de Dieu'', Clapàs, Millau, 2012. * ''Dialogue des gentianes'', L'Harmattan, Paris, 2015.

Essays

* ''Petit traité de fol Espoir'', Olivétan,

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, 2009. * ''Le mémorial des limules. Essay on Frédéric Jacques Temple's poetry''. Suivi d’un ''Dialogue entre Jacqueline Assaël et Frédéric Jacques Temple'', Clichy, Corlevour, 2012. * ''Connaître, « naître ensemble », Tu, mio. Les particularités de Tu, mio comme roman d’apprentissage'', Étude sur

Erri De Luca Enrico "Erri" De Luca (born 20 May 1950, Naples) is an Italian novelist, translator and poet. He has been recognized by critic Giorgio De Rienzo of ''Corriere della Sera'' as "the writer of the decade". He is also known for his opposition to the ...

, ''Nunc'' 28, 2012. * « Les paradoxes de Iossif Ventura, poète crétois », ''Recours au poème'', 2013. * « Et il dit ». Étude sur Erri De Luca, ''Recours au poème'', 2013. * « Frédéric Jacques Temple : la poésie des sept points cardinaux », direction du dossier Frédéric Jacques Temple, ''Nunc'' 30, 2013.

Television show (on DVD)

* ''Le temps de le dire. Jacqueline Assaël'', France Télévisions, France 2, Couleur 30 min. Format 16:9. Stereo. 13/03/11.

Awards

* Prix Zappas (2002)

Notes and references

Bibliography

* Patrick Cabanel, « Jacqueline Assaël », in Patrick Cabanel et André Encrevé (dir.), ''Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours'', tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015,

External links

Jacqueline Assaël
on the website of the Association des Professeurs de Langues Anciennes de l'Enseignement Supérieur
Jacqueline Assaël
on the website of the Maison des écrivains et de la littérature

Loxias
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