Leonard Rosmarin (born in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professor of French literature and a novelist. He is the former Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Rosmarin is a specialist of seventeenth century French literature, and links between opera and literature.[1][2]
Biography
editRosmarin earned a doctorate from Yale University where he began his teaching career in 1964. He became assistant professor at Wesleyan University, also in Connecticut.[3]
In 1969, he returned to Canada to take up a position as associate, then full professor at Brock University.
Rosmarin has been decorated twice by the Government of France for distinguished service in the cause of French letters.[4]
Books
edit- Elie Wiesel ou le refus du désespoir, Editions du Grand-Pré, 2011 (book never published: publisher went bankrupt)
- Getting Enough, Strategic Book Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1606934104[5]
- Liliane Atlan ou la quête de la forme divine, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 2004
- When Literature becomes Opera : Study of a Transformational Process, Rodopi Bv Editions, 1999, ISBN 978-9042006942
- Robert Pinget, Twayne publishers, 1995, ISBN 978-0805745375
- Exilés, marginaux et parias dans les littératures francophones, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 1994
- Albert Cohen, témoin d'un peuple, Editions du Grand-Pré, 1992
- Emmanuel Levinas, humaniste de l'autre homme, L'Harmattan : Editions du Gref, 1991, ISBN 978-0921916130
- Saint-Evremond, artiste de l'euphorie, Summa publications, 1987, ISBN 978-0917786525
References
edit- ^ Salon du livre de Paris
- ^ "AAOF". Archived from the original on 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
- ^ Personal website
- ^ Leonard Rosmarin
- ^ Author inspired by his Jewish family in Montreal