The weave of fragmentation

Professor M. J. Muratore, University of Missouri Curators' Distinguished Professor, is author of numerous book-length studies, among which figure : The Evolution of the Cornelian Heroine ; Cornelian Theater : The Metadramatic Dimension ; Mimesis and Metatextuality in the Neo-Classical Text ; Expirer au féminin : Narratives of Female Dissolution in the French Neo-Classical Text ; Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers : Icons of Marginalization in Post-World War II Narrative ; Moliere's Metatextual Maneuvers ; Survej of French Literature : Middle Ages through the 18^th Century ; and Survey of French Literature : 19^th and 20^th Centuries. She has as well directed, edited and contributed to multiple essay collections : Hermeneutics of Textual Madness : Re-Readings/Herméneutique de la folie textuelle : re-lectures (two volumes) ; and Molière Re-Envisioned. Twenty-First Century Ketakes/Renouveau et renouvellement moliéresques. Reprises contemporaines. A wide-ranging spectrum of scholarly articles appear in international journals and focus on French, European and post-colonial works. Writers explored include, but are not limited to : Mme de Lafayette, La Bruyère, Perrault, La Fontaine, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Guilleragues, Scarron, Cyrano de Bergerac, Bernardin de St. Pierre, Balzac, Camus, Genet, Calvino, Machado de Assis, Wright, Wiesel, Sábato, Pineau, Zongo, Naipaul, Djebar.