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