14 Facts About Georges Poulet

Georges Poulet was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School.

Best known for his four-volume work Studies in Human Time, Poulet rejected formalist approaches to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism requires the reader to open his or her mind to the consciousness of the author.

Georges Poulet's work has had a lasting influence on critics such as J Hillis Miller.

Georges Poulet was born in Chenee, now part of Liege, Belgium in 1902.

Georges Poulet received his doctorate from the University of Liege in 1927, after which he taught at the University of Edinburgh.

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In 1952, Georges Poulet became a professor of French Literature at Johns Hopkins University where he acted as chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Georges Poulet later taught at the University of Zurich and the University of Nice.

Georges Poulet's estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

Georges Poulet worked closely with critics such as Marcel Raymond, Albert Beguin, Jean Rousset, Jean Starobinski, and Jean-Pierre Richard.

Georges Poulet was influenced by his fellow Geneva School critics as well as by critics such as Jacques Riviere, Charles du Bos, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Friedrich Gundolf.

Georges Poulet was awarded the Grand prix de la Critique litteraire and the French Academy's Prix Durchon in Philosophy for the second volume, 1952's The Interior Distance.

Georges Poulet did not believe that these sources should be analyzed as objects, however.

Georges Poulet asserts that all narratives emerge from a preconceived world in which the author has already determined everything that will happen in the future.

De Man writes, "more than any other, the criticism of Georges Poulet conveys the impression of possessing the complexity and the scope of a genuine work of literature".