Toril Moi

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter · March 26, 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

'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

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

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

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

Chapter · December 11, 2013 Cite

Hedda's Silences: Beauty and Despair in Hedda Gabler

Journal Article MODERN DRAMA · 2013 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

‘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

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

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