French literary theorists

Paul Bénichou (French: [beniʃu]; 19 September 1908 – 14 May 2001) was a French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian.

Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (18 February 1855 – 18 July 1932) was a French author and diplomat.

Hélène Cixous (French: [elɛn siksu]; born 5 June 1937) is a professor, Algerian/French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.

Auguste Émile Faguet (French pronunciation: ​[emil faɡɛ]; 17 December 1847 – 7 June 1916) was a French author and literary critic.

Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (French: [ʁikœʁ]; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.

Gérard Genette (born 1930) is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage.

Alain Viala (born in 1947) is a professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and at the University of Paris III and a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Joseph Marie Quérard (December 25, 1797 – December 3, 1865), was a French bibliographer.

Julia Kristeva (French: [kʁisteva]; Bulgarian: Юлия Кръстева; born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s.

Louis Marin (22 May 1931 – 29 October 1992) was a French philosopher, historian, semiotician and art critic.

Joseph Jean-Baptiste Marie Charles Amédée Pichot (3 November 1795 – 12 February 1877) was a French historian and translator.

Antoine Compagnon (born 1950 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris (2006–), and the Blanche W.

Stéphane Michaud (born 1944) is a French scholar specializing in comparative literature.

Étiemble (René Ernest Joseph Eugène Étiemble, Chinese name: 安田樸), (26 January 1909 in Mayenne, Mayenne – 7 January 2002 in Vigny) was an essayist, scholar, novelist, and promoter of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures.

Albert Pauphilet (13 April 1884 – 28 June 1948) was a French medievalist.