Michael or Michel Riffaterre (1924-2006) 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 the concepts of hypogram and syllepsis.

He was born and educated in France. After World War II he was a doctoral student at Columbia University and taught there until his retirement in 2004.

Works

• Le Style des Pleiades de Gobineau: Essai d'application d'une methode stylistique (1957) doctoral dissertation
• Essais de stylistique structurale (1971) translated by Daniel Delas
• Semiotics of Poetry (1978)
• La Production du texte (1979) 1983 English translation Text Production
• Fictional Truth (1990)

External link

• Full bibliography of papers

French literary critics