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These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters.
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Jane Gallop
The influence of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has extended into nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences-from literature and film studies to anthropology and social work. yet…
A history of feminist literary criticism, structured around twelve important texts.
Envy sparks the imagination towards shades of green, sinful deeds and wicked desires. But while the act of coveting is not unknown to men and women alike, stereotypically, the US…
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Argues that teaching is a performance that incorporates the personal in acts of im-personation.
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Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one’s sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing…
Seeks to transcend the barriers of time, space, and sexual identity that is imposed by traditional approaches to literature. This book cites as the shaping principle of her work the…
Anecdote and ‘theory’ have diametrically opposed connotations: humorous versus serious, specific versus general, trivial versus overarching, and short versus grand. This work addresses major questions of feminist theory. It explains…
Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade’s relation to mothers both in his novels and his life; Barthe’s The Pleasure of the Text; Freud’s work, read not…
In 1993, amid considerable attention from the national academic community, Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of sexual harassment by two of her women graduate students…
Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writers literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such…
Anecdote and theory have diametrically opposed connotations: humorous versus serious, specific versus general, trivial versus overarching, short versus grand. This title cuts through these oppositions to produce theory with a…
Tells the story of how and why the author was charged with sexual harassment, and what resulted from the accusations. It uses her personal experience to offer an analysis of…
What does it mean to always be a potential photographic subject, and what does this teach us about photography and the family? Photography is usually written about from the point…
An essential guide to an essential book, this first anthology on Camera Lucida offers critical perspectives on Barthes’s influential text.
