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Toril Moi

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Literature
Literature
Box 90670, 108 Friedl Building, East Campus, Durham, NC 27708-0403
1316 Campus Drive, 108 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708-0403

Selected Publications


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

Philosophy and Autobiography

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Full text 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

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

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

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

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

Introduction

Journal Article New Literary History · March 2015 Full text 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

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

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

The poetic piping of Christian Prigent: Ventiloquits framework and glottic phrase

Journal Article Contemporary French and Francophone Studies · December 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2003 With a new introduction, this Signet Classic is the only available paperback edition of Camille, the instantly-famous story of passion versus class that remains as timeless as love itself. ... Cite

What Is a Woman? and Other Essays

Book · January 1999 Featured Publication Cite

"Am I That Name": Reply to Deborah Knight

Journal Article New Literary History · December 1995 Full text Cite

Review Article Femininity Revisited

Journal Article Journal of Gender Studies · May 1, 1992 Full text Cite

BOOKS OR SPINNING-WHEELS - ON WOMEN, PHILOSOPHY, ET-CETERA - FRENCH - LEDOEUFF,M

Journal Article TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT · 1990 Cite

SEXUAL SUBVERSIONS - 3 FRENCH FEMINISTS - GROSZ,E

Journal Article TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT · 1990 Cite

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE - JOHNSON,B

Journal Article SUB-STANCE · 1989 Cite

AN INTERVIEW WITH MOI,TORIL ON LITERATURE AND SEXUAL POLITICS

Journal Article BLM-BONNIERS LITTERARA MAGASIN · 1988 Cite

FEMMES, RECENT WRITINGS ON FRENCH WOMEN - WEITZ,MC

Journal Article FRENCH STUDIES · 1987 Cite

The Kristeva Reader

Book · 1986 Featured Publication Cite

Review. Cousins, Mark and Hussain, Athar, Michel Foucault

Journal Article French Studies · January 1, 1986 Full text Cite

CIXOUS,HELENE, WRITING THE FEMININE - CONLEY,VA

Journal Article QUINQUEREME-NEW STUDIES IN MODERN LANGUAGES · 1986 Cite

Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory

Book · 1985 Featured Publication Cite