Florence Goyet is a scholar of Comparative Literature. Her research interests are grounded in three fields:
- Short Story Theory, with a focus on XIX-XXth-century short story writers in fives countries: France, Russia, Italy, United States and Japan.
- Creative Writing: the transition from theory to practice
- Epic in the Ancient and in the Modern World, with a focus on the Iliad, Song of Roland, Hôgen and Heiji monogatari and Song of the Nibelungen.
Her first monograph, La Nouvelle 1870-1925 (Presses Universitaires de France, 1993), sold over 2000 copies.
Drawing on a corpus of one thousand short stories in five languages, it describes the “tools of brevity” actually used by authors such as Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke.
Its revised version, written in English, The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory of a Genre (Cambridge, UK, 2014), was downloaded more than 45,000 times since its online publication by OpenBookPublishers.
Her next book project, The Lesson of the Masters - Short Story from Theory to Practice, is a how-to for the creative writing of short stories, based on her theoretical study of the genre.
An alumna of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (France), Florence Goyet holds a B.A. from the Sorbonne in Paris (France) and the Agrégation in French literature; a B.A. in Russian language and literature (Paris Sorbonne), and a M.A in Russian language and literature (Paris 8 Vincennes). She received training in Japanese Studies from Princeton for a year (1982-1983) and then from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris. She obtained her Ph.D. (1990) in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne in Paris and her Habilitation (2001) in the University of Grenoble.
Before teaching as Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Grenoble (since 2002 and until her retirement in 2020), she was an Associate Professor in the same Department since 1990. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (1995), at Princeton University (1997) and at the Freie Universität in Berlin (2010).
Florence Goyet is the founder and director of the Projet Épopée (described at https://epopee.hypotheses.org/), a research project funded by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, UMR 5316). The Projet Épopée provides researchers around the world with state of the arts tools for the study of ancient and modern epic—a bibliography in 7 languages (700 titles) and a yearly journal covering a wide range of themes, cuurently beeing migrated to OpenEdition Journals (access through our CNRS UMR 5316 site at the moment:http://epopee.elan-numerique.fr/ –and through epopee.hypotheses.org).
Languages: French, English, Russian, Italian, Japanese, German, Latin, ancient Greek and a few medieval languages.
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Books
The Classic Short Story 1870-1925: Theory of a Genre. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge - UK, 2014. Also on Unglue.it.
Pensar sem conceitos: a função da epopeia guerreira (Ilíada). Tradução Christina Ramalho e Antonio Trindade, Aracaju (Brésil), Criação Editora (2021).
Journal Articles
- Gesto épico e dinâmica épica. Dois regimes possíveis da epopeia no quadro Pós-colonialTranslation in Épopeias pós-coloniais. Poéticas transatlânticas, Aracaju (Brésil), Criação Editora, 2023, p. 329-358.
- La Epopeya refundadora: extensión y desplazamiento del concepto de epopeya » in Revista Épicas. Ano 1, N.2, Dez 2017, p. 1-29.
- プルーストの『楽しみと日々』とジェームス・ジョイスの『ダブリン市民』20世紀転換期における二つの中編作品集の失敗についての省察, Études Françaises, Revue du Département de Français de l'Université Waseda, Tōkyō, n° 22, 2015, p. 20-37.
- トルストイとトールキンの間─「再創設」の古典叙事詩に基づく現代叙事詩の再定義のために, 学習院大学人文科学論集 , Jinbun, Revue de l'Université Gakushû.in [Impérial College], Tōkyō, n° 13, 2014, p. 81-101.
- »Der Widerspruch im Nibelungenlied : komparatistischer Ansatz und politische Lektüre«, article original, traduit en allemand, in Studi Comparatistici, Torino, IV, 2 (2013 daté 2011), p. 415-446.
- “Changing Worlds: Can Fan Culture ‘work’ as Epic?”, communication au colloque international Practices of World Building International Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, June 6-7, 2013.
- “ 戦語りの機能 ” “(Ikusagatari no kinô) - [Fonction des récits guerriers]”, conférence originale traduite, prononcée en japonais en ouverture du colloque de l'Université Aichi-ken, théâtre nô de Nagoya, le 6 septembre 2008, in 中根千絵, い くさの物語と諧謔の文学史, 三弥井書店 (NAKANE Chie (ed.), Ikusano monogatari tokaigyaku no bungakushi [Récits guerriers et satire - Études d'histoire littéraire]). Tôkyô, Miyai shôten, 2010, p. 14-32.
- « Narrative Structure and Political Construction: The Epic at work », Oral tradition (University of Missouri, John Foley ed.), 23/1 (2008), p. 15-27, http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/23i/goyet.
