Margaret Cohen
Margaret Cohen
Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization
Professor of Comparative Literature
OVERVIEW:
Please email comparativelit@stanford.edu to schedule a meeting with Professor Cohen or ask questions regarding the undergraduate major/minor.
Her publications include Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) and The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), that was awarded the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione prize in French and Francophone literature. In addition, Margaret Cohen coedited two collections of scholarship on the European novel: The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel with Carolyn Dever Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), and Spectacles of Realism: Body, Gender, Genre with Christopher Prendergast (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). She edited and translated Sophie Cottin's best-selling novel of 1799, Claire d'Albe (New York: Modern Language Association, 2003), and has edited a new critical edition of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary that appeared with W.W. Norton in 2004.
EDUCATION:
1988: Ph.D., Yale University
1982: M.A., New York University
1980-81: Universitaet Konstanz
1980: B.A., Yale University
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Courses
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COMPLIT199Win2010-11
Required of Comparative Literature seniors; others by consent of instructor. Different paradigms for the kind of enjoyment readers get from literature: entertainment instruction; ideological comfort critical distance; inspiration and incitation to their own creativity. Works read may include Aristotle Hegel and Brecht on tragedy; Longinus and Burke on the sublime; Roland Barthes S/Z; sonnets by Mallarmé and Eliot's Wasteland; Cixous on écriture féminine; Bakthin's book on Rabelais and carnival and Rabelais and the French fabliaux; Adorno on kitsch and literature of entertainment; Benjamin's essay on The Storyteller; Janice Radway's Reading the Romance. GER:DB-Hum
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COMPLIT123Spr2010-11
The novel as the cultural force which has changed our sense of reality and the protean form that has reshaped the literary universe. Readings from: ancient Greece; medieval Japan and France; early modern Spain China and Britain; 19th-century popular fiction; modernist experiments; and postmodern pastiches. GER:DB-Hum