Terence Cave

Terence Cave is Emeritus Professor of French Literature in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Fellow of the British Academy and member of numerous learned societies, he was recently named Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Known for his studies The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (Clarendon Press, 1979) and Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (Oxford University Press, 1988), he has also written widely on...See more

Terence Cave is Emeritus Professor of French Literature in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Fellow of the British Academy and member of numerous learned societies, he was recently named Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Known for his studies The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (Clarendon Press, 1979) and Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (Oxford University Press, 1988), he has also written widely on early modern French literature and on the history of poetics. See less