Terence Christopher Cave (born 1 December 1938) is a British literary scholar.

Life

Terence Cave studied for his

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and

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degrees at

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and went from there 1965 to the

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. Cave became Fellow and a Tutor in French at

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, in 1972, and between 1989 and 2001 was also professor of French literature at the

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. In 1985 he was elected to become Drapers Professor of French at Cambridge, but remained at Oxford instead of taking the chair. Among Cave's principal works are ''The Cornucopian Text'' (1979), ''Recognitions: A Study in Poetics'' (1988), and (edited with Sarah Kay and Malcolm Bowie) ''A Short History of French Literature'' (2003). Cave is a member of the

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(1990),

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(1991), member of the

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(1993), chevalier of the

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(2001), was made honorary doctor of the

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in 2007, and is a member of the

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. He gave the 2004 Master-Mind Lecture. In 2009 he received the

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and in the

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was appointed

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. Cave has held positions as a guest professor at national and international universities.

Works (selection)

* '' Devotional Poetry in France 1570-1613''. Cambridge: University Press, 1969 * '' The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. * '' Cornucopia. Figures de l'abondance au XVIe siècle. Érasme, Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne''. Ginette Morel in Romanian. Paris: Macula, 1997 * '' Recognitions: A Study in Poetics''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988 * '' Pré-histoires: textes troublés au seuil de la modernité''. Geneva: Droz, 1999 * '' Pré-histoires II: langues étrangères et troubles économiques au XVIe siècle''. Geneva: Droz, 2001
'' How to Read Montaigne''
London: Granta, 2007. * With Sarah Kay and

Malcolm Bowie Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (; 5 May 1943 – 28 January 2007) was a British academic, and List of Masters of Christ's College, Cambridge, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed scho ...

'' A Short History of French Literature''
Oxford 2003 * Edited by Neil Kenny and Wes Williams
'' Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History''
Oxford: Legenda, 2009. * '' Mignon's Afterlives''. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011. * ''Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism'' 2017"Diary"
''London Review of Books''. Retrieved 2018-05-29.

References

External links

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, 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Cave, Terence 1938 births Living people Scholars of French literature Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Members of Academia Europaea Fellows of the British Academy Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters