Toril Moi

Journal Article Victorian Studies · September 1, 2024 In her essay, Toril Moi responds to the contributions to the Victorian Idealisms forum and argues for the importance of distinguishing between aesthetic idealism and philosophical idealism. While the contributions mostly focus on idealism as a philosophica ... Full text Cite

Gulliksen og Frobenius forfekter et estetisk ideal som nødvendigvis utelukker det meste av det vi i dag kaller litteratur [Gulliksen and Frobenius defend an aesthetic ideal which necessarily excludes most of what we call literature today

Other Morgenbladet · April 5, 2024 About the difference between an esthetic norm and a philosophy of language ... Cite

Om jeg er litterær ateist, må Geir Gulliksen være en troende [If I am a literary atheist, Geir Gulliksen has to be a believer.]

Other Morgenbladet · February 16, 2024 About the existence of a literary language, and the relationship between literature and creative non-fiction ... Link to item Cite

Meaning What We Say: The ‘Politics of Theory’ and the Responsibility of Intellectuals

Journal Article · January 1, 2024 ‘The desire for a theory that guarantees political radicalism and, idea1ly, political effectiveness, has been strong in recent years’, Jonathan Culler writes. As a feminist literary critic and theorist I know what he means, for I belong precise]y to the gr ... Full text Cite

What can literature do? Simone de Beauvoir, literature theorist

Journal Article Simone De Beauvoir Studies · January 1, 2024 In this article, Toril Moi sets out Beauvoir’s theory of literature as she presents it in her underestimated essay “Que peut la littérature?” Moi seeks to understand Beauvoir’s essay by situating it in its historical context, and by connecting it to Beauvo ... Full text Cite

While We Wait: Notes on the English Translation of The Second Sex

Chapter · January 1, 2024 That the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sexis bad has been well known ever since Margaret Simons published her ground-breaking essay ‘The Silencing of Simone de Beauvoir: Guess What’s Missing from The Second Sex’in 1983. So why writ ... Full text Cite

Crisis in the Profession, Or the Failure to Imagine the New

Other American Literary History · 2024 Cite

Que peut la littérarité? Simone de Beauvoir, théoricienne de la littérature

Other Simone de Beauvoir Studies · 2024 Link to item Cite

Reciprocal Otherness: Simone de Beauvoir on freedom and difference

Other The Point Magazine · September 21, 2023 Link to item Cite

Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit

Journal Article Polity · July 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Don’t Look Back: Rereading Duras

Book Review London Review of Books · April 13, 2023 Review of Marguerite Duras, The Easy Life), ... Link to item Cite

Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy

Book · January 1, 2023 Featured Publication Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a boring old realist, whose plays are of interest only ... Full text Cite

Om norskhet kultur og liv på 1950-tallet

Book · 2023 Essayet handler om norskhet og norskhetens andre, om skjebnen til de norske jødene under krigen, om norske væremåter, og om hvordan det komplekse begrepet identitet brukes i dagens debatter. ... Cite

Meningen med livet kino, kortspill, teater og helvete : kultur og liv på 1950-tallet

Book · 2023 Cite

Oppmerksomhet som en etisk og politisk handling, en mate a se pa

Other Uppmarksamhettens ekonomi · 2023 Cite

Acknowledging Hannah Pitkin: A belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit

Other Polity: Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Assocation · 2023 A Symposium on Hannah Pitkin’s classic book Wittgenstein and Justice. ... Cite

A Wittgensteinian Phenomenology of Criticism

Other Wittgenstein & Literary Studies · 2023 Link to item Cite

Prejudice Rules: LRB commentators on the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Journal Article London Review of Books · July 21, 2022 Link to item Cite

The Notes of Toril Moi

Other https://oxonianreview.com/articles/the-notes-of-toril-moi · April 28, 2022 A mini-essay on note-taking ... Cite

The Question of the New: Wittgenstein, Kuhn, Cavell

Other Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies · 2022 Link to item Cite

Response: What is the project of Revolution of the Ordinary?

Other Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning · 2022 Response to Tobias Skiveren, Sven Anders Johansson, and Kjersti Bale. ... Cite

Simone de Beauvoir

Other · 2022 Essay on Simone de Beauvoir for the main online encyclopedia in Norway, SNL ... Link to item Cite

I Came With a Sword

Book Review London Review of Books · July 1, 2021 Essay on Simone Weil (Review of Robert Zaretsky, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas.) ... Link to item Cite

Om å reise til Norge fra USA

Other · June 5, 2021 Link to item Cite

Stolt og slagen

Other Morgenbladet · March 26, 2021 Proud and Defeated: about Ebba Haslund’s housewife novels ... Link to item Cite

Stolt og slagen. Husmorens skjebne i Ebba Haslunds romaner

Book · 2021 Toril Moi reflekterer over en vesentlig historisk erfaring som Haslund gir form til, nemlig hvordan det opplevdes for en generasjon av kvinner som var.husmødre på 1950-tallet, at arbeidet de stolt viet sine liv til, plutselig på 1970 ... ... Cite

Helen DeWitt: The Last Samurai

Other B-Sides Books · 2021 Link to item Cite

Visual Arts

Other Ibsen in Contexts · 2021 Cite

Feminism

Other Ibsen in Contexts · 2021 Cite

De uatskillelige [The Inseparables]-

Other Morgenbladet · December 23, 2020 About Simone de Beauvoir’s new novella Les Inséparables] ... Link to item Cite

It isn’t your home

Book Review London Review of Books · September 10, 2020 Review essay on Ann Jefferson, Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between ... Link to item Cite

Kjærlighetstortur, Love as torture

Other Morgenbladet · July 31, 2020 Love as torture, an essay about Torborg Nedreaas’ novel Av måneskinn gror det ingenting ... Link to item Cite

„Nic tu nie jest ukryte”. Poza hermeneutyką podejrzeń

Journal Article Forum Poetyki · June 15, 2020 W rozdziale 8. książki Revolution of the Ordinary Toril Moi prezentuje swoją autorską koncepcję lektury utworu literackiego, polegającą na wnikliwej analizie tekstu poprzez odnoszenie go do pytania „Dlaczego to?”, tutaj funkcjonującego na zasadzie ... Full text Cite

Et stykke Norge [A piece of Norway]-

Other Morgenbladet · February 14, 2020 Link to item Cite

Philosophy and Autobiography

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Kjærlighetstortur Torborg Nedreaas' Av måneskinn gror det ingenting

Book · 2020 Cite

Et stykke Norge Mykle og Bjørneboe kultur og liv på 1950-tallet

Book · 2020 Cite

“Förord” (“Preface”), to Sara Danius

Other · 2020 Cite

Philosophy and Autobiography: Remarks on Cavell's Philosophy and the Arrogation of Voice

Other Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections · 2020 Link to item Cite

Real Characters

Other The Point · 2020 Link to item Cite

Response to eight respondents to my book Revolution of the Ordinary

Other Nonsite.org · May 9, 2019 Link to item Cite

Introduction & Rethinking Character

Chapter · 2019 In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies. ... Cite

Acknowledging the Other: Reading, Writing, and Living in The Mandarins

Journal Article Yale French Studies · 2019 Cite

Lidenskapens grammatikk: Om Vigdis Hjorth og Annie Ernaux (The Grammar of Passion: About Vigdis Hjorth and Annie Ernaux)

Chapter · 2019 Cite

Character Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

Book · 2019 In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies. ... Cite

Lidenskapens grammatikk: Om Vigdis Hjorth og Annie Ernaux

Other Fem kvinner, tre menn og en datter skriver om Vigdis Hjorth · 2019 Cite

Å skrive er å tenke

Other Min metode: Om sakprosaskriving · 2019 Cite

From femininity to finitude: Freud, lacan, and feminism, again

Chapter · March 26, 2018 Cite

Hedda’s Words: The Work of Language in Hedda Gabler

Other Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives · 2018 Cite

Describing My Struggle

Other The Point · December 27, 2017 Cite

Revolution of the Ordinary Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

Book · May 22, 2017 This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. ... Cite

Hedda’s words: The work of language in Hedda Gabler

Chapter · January 1, 2017 For ordinary language philosophy-the philosophical tradition after Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, as constituted and extended by Stanley Cavell-meaning arises in use. Utterances are actions and expressions. This philosophy, therefore, is closely att ... Full text Cite

The adulteress wife

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Nearly 20 years after Margaret Simons broke the news of the scandal of the English translation of Le deuxième sexe, Toril Moi’s 2002 essay deepened feminist claims in relation to Parshley’s translation, and chronicled the long and still-unsuccessful strugg ... Full text Cite

Describing Knausgård

Other The Point · 2017 Link to item Cite

“‘Nothing Is Hidden’: From Confusion to Clarity, Or Wittgenstein on Critique

Other Critique and Postcritique · 2017 Cite

'Nothing Is Hidden’: From Confusion to Clarity, Or Wittgenstein on Critique

Chapter · 2016 Cite

Toril Moi leser A.O. Vinje [Toril Moi reads A. O. Vinje]

Book · 2016 Cite

Foreword

Chapter · 2016 First, the story of Mesmer, who in 2411 sets out on his Journey, a rite of passage which is to last a year and a day, in a gloriously pansexual, matriarchal, and feminist utopia, told in the third person by a gentle and guileless narrator. ... Cite

The Utopian

Chapter · 2016 Cite

Naised: sugu, soolisus ja vabadus [Translation of “Women: Sex, Gender, and Freedom: Thoughts about Equality and Difference” Manuscript written for the Ministry for Equality’s Feminist Research Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on June 1, 2015]

Other Sirp: Eesti Kultuurileht · July 3, 2015 Link to item Cite

Thinking through Examples: What Ordinary Language Philosophy Can Do for Feminist Theory

Journal Article New Literary History · June 1, 2015 Cite

‘Øyeblikkets bedrageriske fylde’: Handling, språk og eksistens i Liv Køltzows forfatterskap

Chapter · May 20, 2015 Cite

Introduction

Journal Article New Literary History · March 2015 Full text Cite

Thinking through examples: What ordinary language philosophy can do for feminist theory

Journal Article New Literary History · March 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Øyeblikkets bedrageriske fylde.’ Handling, språk og eksistens i Liv Køltzows forfatterskap

Other Å forsvinne i teksten · 2015 Cite

Feminist Investigations

Chapter · 2015 Cite

Jeg er ikke en kvinnelig forfatter

Journal Article Samtiden · November 17, 2014 Full text Cite

Introduction: Ibsen’s Late Style

Chapter · October 2, 2014 This volume includes an introduction by Toril Moi on the themes of death and human limitation in the plays, and additional editorial apparatus by Tore Rem. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is often called 'the Father of Modern Drama'. ... Cite

"Something That Might Resemble a Kind of Love": Fantasy and Realism in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf

Journal Article · January 23, 2014 Little Eyolf (1894) is one of Henrik Ibsen's most difficult plays. In this new full-scale reading, Toril Moi shows that formally as well as thematically the play is preoccupied with the conflict between fantasy and reality. Ibsen uses this conflict to expl ... Full text Cite

"Det vanskelige ved virkeligheten: Om språk og oppmerksomhet i litteraturen og filosofien” [The difficulty of reality: About language and attention in literature and philosophy]

Journal Article · 2014 Cite

Stumhet og kjærlighet: En lesning av Amtmandens Døttre” [Muteness and Love: A Reading of Camilla Collett’s The Sheriff’s Daughters].

Journal Article · 2014 Cite

Stumhet og kjærlighet: En lesning av Amtmandens Døttre [Muteness and Love: A Reading of The District Governor’s Daughters].

Chapter · 2014 Cite

Ibsen’s Late Style

Chapter · 2014 Cite

Elaine showalter a literature of their own

Chapter · January 1, 2014 ELAINE SHOWALTER A Literature of Their Own Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte' to Lessing (1977) traces a history of women's writing through three phases - the 'feminine' from 1840-80, the 'feminist' from 1880 ... Full text Cite

Fem røde epler: Fra navn til bruk. En kommentar til §1 i Wittgensteins Filosofiske undersøkelser” [Five red apples: from names to use, A commentary on §1 in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations]

Journal Article Edda · 2014 Cite

Fem røde epler: Fra navn til bruk. En kommentar til §1 i Wittgensteins Filosofiske undersøkelser

Other Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning · 2014 Cite

Jeg er en kvinne: Intervju med Toril Moi

Other Om å utfordre vanen: Samtaler om litterær sakprosa · 2014 Cite

’Something That Might Resemble a Kind of Love’: Fantasy and Realism in Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf

Chapter · December 11, 2013 Cite

Mot til å overleve” [Courage to survive],

Book Review Fryd og fare, Morgenbladet · November 22, 2013 essay on Vigdis Hjorth ... Cite

Hedda's Silences: Beauty and Despair in Hedda Gabler

Journal Article MODERN DRAMA · 2013 Full text Cite

Afterword: How the French Read

Other New Literary History · 2013 Cite

Afterword: How the French Read

Journal Article New Literary History · 2013 Cite

Shame and Openness: On Karl Ove Knausgård

Journal Article Salmagundi Magazine · 2013 Cite

‘To Make them Other, and Face Them’: Literature, Philosophy and ‘La Femme rompue’

Journal Article · 2012 Cite

Access to the Universal: Language, Literature and the Humanities

Journal Article · 2012 Cite

‘To Make them Other, and Face Them’: Literature, Philosophy and ‘La Femme rompue’

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Access to the Universal: Language, Literature and the Humanities

Chapter · 2012 Cite

The adventure of reading: Literature and philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir

Journal Article Literature and Theology · June 1, 2011 Is there a way of reading philosophically without imposing a pre-existing philosophy on the literary text? Turning first to the work of Stanley Cavell, then to Simone de Beauvoir's often neglected accounts of reading, this essay shows that such a philosoph ... Full text Cite

The Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir

Journal Article · January 1, 2011 Cite

Idealism

Journal Article · September 2, 2009 This article examines the impact of idealism on the history of philosophy and literature. It considers idealism as a historically and culturally significant intersection of philosophy and literature, and as a set of ideas about art that profoundly affected ... Full text Cite

What Can Literature Do? Simone de Beauvoir as a Literary Theorist

Journal Article PMLA · January 2009 Cite

"Jeg er ikke en kvinnelig forfatter"

Journal Article Samtiden · December 16, 2008 Full text Cite

“Ledende kjønnsklisjéer,” [Clichées and leadership],

Other Dagens Næringsliv · January 5, 2008 Cite

“Peer Gynt i eksil: Meditasjoner om norskhet” [Peer Gynt in exile: Meditations on the fact of being Norwegian]

Journal Article · December 2007 Cite

Henrik Ibsen and idealism: Rethinking literary history of the XIX century

Journal Article Etudes Germaniques · December 1, 2007 Considered as the incarnation of an outdated realism Ibsen's theatre has often been opposed to forms apparently more modern or modernistic like Artaud's, Brecht's or Becektt's. The idea that realism is a naively transparent form of representing the world, ... Cite

“Språkets tvangstrøye: Om poststrukturalistisk språkteori og queer teori” [The Linguistic Straitjacket: On the Poststructuralist Theory of Language and Queer Theory]

Journal Article · 2007 Cite

’What’s the difference?’: Om Stanley Cavells lesning av Paul de Man ("’What’s the Difference?’ On Stanley Cavell’s reading of Paul de Man")

Journal Article · 1995 Cite

Review. Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984. Edited with an introduction by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Foucault, Michel

Journal Article French Studies · July 1, 1990 Full text Cite

Psykoanalyse, subjektivitet og politikk: Julia Kristeva–en innføring. (“Psychoanalysis, subjectivity and politics: an introduction to Julia Kristeva.”)

Journal Article · 1986 Cite

Fra skogen til skrivepulten eller faren ved den kvinnelige kreativitet: En lesning av Bjørg Viks novelle ‘På bussen er det fint.’ (“That dangerous female creativity: Bjørg Vik’s short story ‘It’s nice on the bus.’”)

Journal Article · 1985 Cite