Professor
Dorrit Cohn
(
–
)
1924
2012
Harvard University
;
Cambridge, MA
Language and literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2000
Her work centers on narrative theory, where she has been most concerned with two topics: 1) the presentation of consciousness in fiction, and 2) markers for distinguishing fictional from non-fictional (historical) texts. she has also written numerous articles on German, Austrian, French and English authors of the first half of the twentieth century (Freud, Mann, Proust, Kafka, Joyce, Mussil, Broce, and others)
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