Warren Motte
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Bio | Publications | Research
Interests | Curriculum Vitae
Bio
 Warren Motte received an A.B. in English Literature from the University
of Pennsylvania, a Maîtrise in Anglo-American Literature from the
Université de Bordeaux, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in French
Literature
from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor of French and Comparative
Literature, he specializes in contemporary writing, with particular focus
upon experimentalist works that put accepted notions of literary form
into question. He is the author of The Poetics of Experiment: A Study
of the Work of Georges Perec (1984), Questioning Edmond Jabès (1990), Playtexts: Ludics in Contemporary Literature (1995), Small
Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature (1999), Fables of the Novel:
French Fiction Since 1990 (2003), and the
translator and editor of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (1986; rev. ed. 1998, rpt. 2007). His most recent book is Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008).
Publications:
Books:
- The Poetics of Experiment: A Study of the Work of Georges Perec (Lexington: French Forum Monographs, 1984).
- Questioning Edmond Jabès (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska
Press, 1990).
- Playtexts: Ludics in Contemporary Literature (Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 1995).
- Small Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French
Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999).
- Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990 (Normal: Dalkey
Archive Press, 2003).
- Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century (Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008).
Edited Volumes:
- Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature, Lincoln:
University
of Nebraska Press (1986, revised edition: Normal, Dalkey Archive
Press,
1998, rpt. 2007).
- Literary Ludics (special issue of L'Esprit
Créateur,
31.4, 1991).
- Alteratives (Lexington: French Forum Monographs, 1993,
with
Gerald Prince).
- Jacques Jouet (special issue of SubStance, 96,
2001).
- Pereckonings: Reading Georges Perec (with Jean-Jacques Poucel,
special issue of Yale French Studies, 105, 2004).
- The French Novel Now (special issue of SubStance, 111, 2006).
Research Interests:
- Contemporary French Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Theory of Literature
- Literary Experimentalism
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