Soare Antoine

Biography

Antoine Soare began his studies at the University of Bucharest and continued at McGill, where he obtained his master's degree (1970) with a dissertation on Pierre Reverdy, and his PhD (1977) with a thesis on Corneille's tragedies. Before coming to the University of Montreal, he taught at McGill, Queen's University, the University of Manitoba and the University of Alberta. His collaborations with journals published in Germany, England, Canada, the United States and France as well as his frequent communications, including annual symposia of learned societies such as the British Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, the Corneille Movement of the University of Rouen, the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature or the Southeast American Society for French Seventheenth-Century Studies, focus on the Corneille and Racine theater, and their relationship to the entire production dramatic of the time. In his research, he combines Baroque and classicism with the moral and ideological problems of the seventeenth century, he is on the lookout for textual facts, the lack of knowledge or the alteration make the critic often work on fantasized apocrypha rather than on the works themselves. In recent years, he has carved out a third area of ​​research: the stylistic analysis ofFables of La Fontaine from their phonetic reality. In 1995, he organized at the University of Montreal and McGill the XXVIIth Annual Conference of the North American Society for XVIIth Century French Literature, of which he edited the Acts under the title of Et in Arcadia Ego . The two books he is currently working on are titled From Cid to Horace: Polemic and Dramaturgy and Britannicus and the fuzzy period of Racine .

Research Interest

French literature (17th century), 17th century theater, Poetry, Stylistic analysis.