Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (died 2006)

Michael Riffaterre

French literary critic and theorist

Michel Riffaterre, known as Michael Riffaterre, was an influential French literary critic and theorist. He pursued a generally structuralist approach. He is well known in particular for his book Semiotics of Poetry, and his conceptions of hypogram and syllepsis. Kvas observes…