<p>Abstract:</p><p>Jeffrey J. Williams interviewed Jane Gallop on January 6, 20... more <p>Abstract:</p><p>Jeffrey J. Williams interviewed Jane Gallop on January 6, 2018, in New York City during the MLA convention.</p>
... absence of a progres-sive movement in the United States, we are currently in danger of abando... more ... absence of a progres-sive movement in the United States, we are currently in danger of abandoning the arena of politics and public culture to the ... of feminism, the work of the citizen still goes on: the property owner, the taxpayer, the consumer of groceries and the Internet ...
These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemic... more These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue.
In 1974, the journal L’Arc, which devotes each of its issues to an important figure on the Paris ... more In 1974, the journal L’Arc, which devotes each of its issues to an important figure on the Paris artistic-intellectual scene, published an issue on Lacan. That Arc, L’Arc 58, is both the Lacan issue and an issue to which all the contributors are women. For some time now, it has been a popular feminist tactic for women to take over the direction of some review and bring forth a special women’s issue. What is unusual, in this case, is that the women gave birth to a women’s issue which is at the same time the Lacan issue. By what right does Lacan’s portrait grace the cover of L’Arc’s women’s issue?
The first third of Luce Irigaray’s Speculum de l’autre femme is called ‘The Blind Spot of an Old ... more The first third of Luce Irigaray’s Speculum de l’autre femme is called ‘The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry’. It is a close reading of ‘Femininity’, one of Freud’s New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933). This encounter between Irigaray’s feminist critique and Freud’s final text on woman is an important training ground for a new kind of battle, a feminine seduction/disarming/unsettling of the positions of phallocratic ideology. Irigaray’s tactic is a kind of reading: close reading, which separates the text into fragments of varying size, quotes it and then comments with various questions and associations. She never sums up the meaning of Freud’s text, nor binds all her commentaries, questions, associations into a unified representation, a coherent interpretation. Her commentaries are full of loose ends and unanswered questions. As a result, the reader does not so easily lose sight of the incoherency and inconsistency of the text.
For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan... more For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer's irrelevance to the readers experience. In this concise book, Jane Gallop revitalizes this hackneyed concept by considering not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths," such as obsolescence. Through bravura close readings of the influential literary theorists Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, she shows that the death of the author is best understood as a relation to temporality, not only for the reader but especially for the writer. Gallop does not just approach the death of the author from the reader's perspective; she also reflects at length on how impending death haunts the writer. By connecting an author’s theoretical, literal, and metaphoric deaths, she enables us to take a fuller measure of the moving and unsettling effects of the deaths of the author on readers and writers, and on reading and writing.
<p>Abstract:</p><p>Jeffrey J. Williams interviewed Jane Gallop on January 6, 20... more <p>Abstract:</p><p>Jeffrey J. Williams interviewed Jane Gallop on January 6, 2018, in New York City during the MLA convention.</p>
... absence of a progres-sive movement in the United States, we are currently in danger of abando... more ... absence of a progres-sive movement in the United States, we are currently in danger of abandoning the arena of politics and public culture to the ... of feminism, the work of the citizen still goes on: the property owner, the taxpayer, the consumer of groceries and the Internet ...
These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemic... more These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue.
In 1974, the journal L’Arc, which devotes each of its issues to an important figure on the Paris ... more In 1974, the journal L’Arc, which devotes each of its issues to an important figure on the Paris artistic-intellectual scene, published an issue on Lacan. That Arc, L’Arc 58, is both the Lacan issue and an issue to which all the contributors are women. For some time now, it has been a popular feminist tactic for women to take over the direction of some review and bring forth a special women’s issue. What is unusual, in this case, is that the women gave birth to a women’s issue which is at the same time the Lacan issue. By what right does Lacan’s portrait grace the cover of L’Arc’s women’s issue?
The first third of Luce Irigaray’s Speculum de l’autre femme is called ‘The Blind Spot of an Old ... more The first third of Luce Irigaray’s Speculum de l’autre femme is called ‘The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry’. It is a close reading of ‘Femininity’, one of Freud’s New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933). This encounter between Irigaray’s feminist critique and Freud’s final text on woman is an important training ground for a new kind of battle, a feminine seduction/disarming/unsettling of the positions of phallocratic ideology. Irigaray’s tactic is a kind of reading: close reading, which separates the text into fragments of varying size, quotes it and then comments with various questions and associations. She never sums up the meaning of Freud’s text, nor binds all her commentaries, questions, associations into a unified representation, a coherent interpretation. Her commentaries are full of loose ends and unanswered questions. As a result, the reader does not so easily lose sight of the incoherency and inconsistency of the text.
For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan... more For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer's irrelevance to the readers experience. In this concise book, Jane Gallop revitalizes this hackneyed concept by considering not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths," such as obsolescence. Through bravura close readings of the influential literary theorists Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, she shows that the death of the author is best understood as a relation to temporality, not only for the reader but especially for the writer. Gallop does not just approach the death of the author from the reader's perspective; she also reflects at length on how impending death haunts the writer. By connecting an author’s theoretical, literal, and metaphoric deaths, she enables us to take a fuller measure of the moving and unsettling effects of the deaths of the author on readers and writers, and on reading and writing.
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