Claude Bremond is Professor of the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of Logique du récit , co-author of L'Exemplum and Mille et un contes de la nuit ; and co-editor of Formes Médiévales du conte merveilleux . Joshua Landy is in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Thomas Pavel is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of Infléxions de voix, La Syntaxe narrative des tragédies de Corneille, The Poetics of The Case of English Renaissance Drama, Fictional Worlds , and The Feud of Language .