Mitsou Ronat

Mitsou Ronat, portrait courtesy of Gérald Bloncourt

Mitsou Ronat (1946 – 8 July 1984) was a French poet, linguist and specialist of literary theory.

As member of the committee of the journal Action poétique with Henri Deluy, Martine Broda, Jacques Roubaud and Elisabeth Roudinesco, she expressed critical views of Tel Quel.[1][2] and criticizes the use of linguistics made by Julia Kristeva [3]

In 1967 she joined the collective Change, founded by Jean-Pierre Faye, where she advocated for a diffusion of Noam Chomsky's ideas, and the use of this type of linguistics in the analysis of literature.[4][5]

She was also a member of the Polivanov circle, where she met several linguists and poets among which were Jacques Roubaud, Jean-Claude Milner, Jacqueline Guéron and Pierre Lusson. She published a number of papers which tend to show that Chomsky's notion of constraint can be extended to the study of literature.[6][7]

A specialist on Stéphane Mallarmé and James Joyce, she criticized the analysis of Joyce developed by Philippe Sollers.[8]

In 1980 she published (with Tibor Papp) a provocative edition of his poem "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard".[9][10]

Very close to Ann Banfield and Sige-Yuki Kuroda, Ronat obtained her Ph.D. in 1974.[11]

She was a co-founder, with Pierre Pica and others, of the French Association des Sciences du Langage, she was the author of a dialogue with Noam Chomsky,[12][13] and of several linguistics papers.[14][15][16][17]

In the last part of her life, Mitsou Ronat became especially interested in the interface between language and prosody.[18][19]

She was the author of several poems where she analyzed the relationship between language and vision. She died on 8 July 1984, in a car accident leaving an unachieved doctoral dissertation.

References

  1. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1969), Au sujet de "Tel Quel", (Table ronde organisée avec Jean-Paul Cassagnac, Philippe Mano, Christian Pringent et Jean-Luc Steinmetz), in Situation de "Tel Quel" et problèmes de l'avant-garde, Pierre Oswald éd. Action poétique 41-42, pp 119-136 (republié dans "La Langue Manifeste")
  2. ↑ Roudinesco, Elisabeth (1986), Histoire de la psychanalyse en France 2 1925-1985, Seuil, pp 541-544
  3. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1970), Questions sur les idéologies qui président à, et naissent de, l'utilisation des théories linguistiques par la littérature in Actes du Colloque de Cluny II, La nouvelle Critique, numéro spécial, 39 bis pp 128-140 (republié dans La Langue Manifeste, littérature et théories du langage)
  4. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1972), Notes sur une théorie de la forme des langues suivie de Note jointe sur l'inconscient des langues in Hypothèses, Trois entretiens et trois études sur la linguistique et la poétique, Mitsou Ronat et Jean Paris eds, Seghers/laffont, Paris, pp 167-219
  5. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1975), Notes sur la structure profonde in Mouvement du Change de formes et transformationnisme, Change 24, page 172
  6. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1975), Métrico-Phono-Syntaxe : La vers français alexandrin, in Cahier de poétique comparée, Vol. II, Fasc. 2, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris; pp. 47-92 (Républié in Formes, Hommage à Mitsou Ronat, Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 1986)
  7. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1975), Scrambling peut-elle être française? in Cahier de poétique comparée, Vol. II, Fasc. 2, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris; pp. 47-92
  8. ↑ Slote, Sam (2004), "Joyce : from Tel Quel to l'infini and beyond" in Geert Lernout & Winn Van Merloo eds. The reception of James Joyce in Europe, Thoemmes Continuum, New York
  9. ↑ Edition et mise en oeuvre avec Tibor Papp (1980) de Un coup de dès jamais n'abolira le hasard (de Stéphane Mallarmé) Change errant/D'atelier, Paris
  10. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1980), Un coup de dès...pour la première fois grandeur nature, in La Quinzaine Littéraire, numéro 319, page 14
  11. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1974), Echelles de base et mutation en syntaxe française, Doctorat non publié, Paris
  12. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1977), Dialogue avec Noam Chomsky, Flammarion, Paris
  13. ↑ Chomsky, Noam (1977), Language and responsibility – Based on conversations with Mitsou Ronat, Pantheon Books, New York
  14. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1984), Iles prosodiques, liage et forme logique in Mitsou Ronat et Pierre Pica eds Catégories vides et argumentation en syntaxe, Modèles linguistiques, VII.1
  15. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1979), Pronoms topiques et pronoms distinctifs dans Mitsou Ronat ed. Grammaire de phrase et grammaire de discours, Langue Française 44, pp 105-127
  16. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1976), Grammaire et discours in Jean-Claude Chevalier et Maurice Gross eds Méthodes en grammaire française, Klincksieck, Paris pp 158-173
  17. ↑ Three Deep Structures in French Complementation in You take the High node and I'll Take the Low Node. Papers from the comparative Syntax Festival. The differences between Main and Subordinate Clauses. Papers from the Ninth regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, pp 200-210
  18. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1984), Logical form and prosodic islands dans Dafydd Gibbon et Helmut Richter eds, Intonation accent and rhythm, De Grutyer, Berlin, pp 311-326
  19. ↑ Ronat, Mitsou (1984), La phono-syntaxe est-elle métalinguistique ? dans Mitsou Ronat et Daniel Couquaux eds, La grammaire modulaire, Minuit, Paris

Bibliography

Ronat, Mitsou (1984), Focus, Intonation, Grammaire, Thèse d'état, unpublished, Paris, 255 pages.

Ronat, Mitsou (1975), La langue manifeste, Littérature et théories du langage, Action Poétique, Paris.

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