Yannick Séité

Professeur de Littérature

Université de Tours

France

Biografía

Yannick Séité is Professor of Littérature at the University of Tours. He has published numerous articles on jazz, often in relation to literature, in addition to his work on the Lumières. He is co-director of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Œuvres complètes" published by Classiques Garnier, translator of Gwendolyn Bennett, editor (with Alexandre Pierrepont, Pierre Fargeton...) of several volumes on jazz. His essay "Le Jazz, à la lettre", published by PUF in 2010, was awarded the Prix des Muses.

Artículos (1)

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Can One « Jazz » the French Language ?

The preface to Paul Morand’s collection Magie noire (1929) has been the subject of much discussion, including that of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who has repeatedly referred to Morand as the first person to have “jazzed” the French language. Taking this metaphor seriously, this article sets out to systematically clarify its meanings.