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

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

Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit

Journal article Polity · July 1, 2023 Full text 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

„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

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

Journal article Yale French Studies · 2019 Cite

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

Journal article New Literary History · June 1, 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

Jeg er ikke en kvinnelig forfatter

Journal article Samtiden · November 17, 2014 Full text 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

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

Hedda's Silences: Beauty and Despair in Hedda Gabler

Journal article MODERN DRAMA · 2013 Full text Link to item 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

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

“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.’”)