...Nancy Armstrong Foucault did not have much to say about either women or novels. By turning his method of critique on an area of literary studies that considered itself stalwartly British, Marxist, and feminist, however, I could explain the political stakes of transforming a culture disrupted...

.... Newsome, whose “Cartesian method,” as Posnock calls it (p. 225), “doesn’t admit surprises.” MILLICENTBELL Boston University Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault. By JONATHAN DOLLIMORE. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. x...

...Eric Rothstein Eric Rothstein is the Edgar W. Lacy Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is currently completing a book on “Modernity” and taxonomic boundaries in the earlier eighteenth century. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Foucault...

... another, making diversity an irreducible resource. “Being,” “truth,” and “time” are all Western categories whose aspects are presented altogether differently in Chinese. Displacement, in the sense of Michel Foucault or Gilles Deleuze, still premises a norm. So does any notion of a rooted cultural absolute...

...Nancy Armstrong; Leonard Tennenhouse Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse n a note to Discipline and Punish, Foucault declares his intention to I...

... writer and a feminist critic. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 Nancy Armstrong Michel Foucault feminist criticism References Anderson Amanda . 2000 . “ The Temptations of Aggrandized Agency: Feminist Histories and the Horizon of Modernity .” Victorian Studies...

... of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard (2002), and coeditor of four collections, most recently Idealism without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture (2004). She is working on a book about encyclopedic thought and the organization of knowledge from German idealism to deconstruction...

...: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida (1987) and French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture (1995). The Enlightenment of the French Eye: The Limits of Intellectual History and the Master Narrative of Vision David Carroll l~ownmst~;VYS: ‘l’hu...

... in which is to be found at least the occasional obeisance before gurus like Foucault and the dusty and garish altar of psycho- analysis. But no matter how much one might take issue with specific conclusions, it has to be acknowledged that all three authors use such critical preconceptions...

... 84 MLQ ❙ June 2001 many varieties of feminism work with theatricality, spectacle, and theo- ries of looking, to say nothing of how often these pages are filled with powerful and even bizarre images. Michel Foucault, the most...

.... Engaging psychoanalysis and Marxism seized our attention, as in Fredric Jameson’s Political Unconscious (1981), and so too did the work of Michel Foucault, which Jameson kept his distance from. Eve Sedgwick’s Between Men (1985) made enlivening use of René Girard’s theory of mediation to achieve what...

... historical change in Michel Foucault’s archaeology, a form of revisionism arguably more popular now than Bloom’s. The import of these shifts, nevertheless, is the same because Bloom’s focus on masculine aggression and contestation does not dismantle the regulatory fiction of the agon itself or alter...

... puts to rest the kind of intellectual history that would separate French thought from 1933 on into two periods: first the Hegelian (Kojeve, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre) , then the Nietzschean (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze) ” (20). 468 MLQ I December 1994...

...,” presents Keenan’s main arguments about the nature of ethicopolitical responsibility. The second and third chapters, on Aesop and Sade, compose a unit called “Fables”; the fourth and fifth chapters, on Marx and Foucault, make up a unit called “Rhetoric.” The conclusion offers a critical appraisal...

.... For whatever the vitalist continuities of Bassnett’s principles, her practice cannot escape a truism formulated by Michel Foucault, who writes, “Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.”2 And cut she does. The table of contents for “History...

...: Foucault’s Methods and Historical Sociology (London: Routledge, 1994), 7. MLQ 61.2-03Rothstein.ak 5/26/00 3:51 PM Page 364 364 MLQ ❙ June 2000 aren’t straightforward. To label them conceals what it is that drives...

..., but for the most part McHenry modestly leaves that recognition to readers. Chapters 3 and 4 turn to case studies of Black authorship that are implicitly motivated by one of the central questions of book history and literary theory: “What is an author?” (Foucault 1984 ). In these chapters McHenry takes what we...

...Steve Dillon Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Archaeology of Victorian Literature Steve Dillon It could be argued, and in part will be, that the Victorian period is the on4 literary period. Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge so thor- oughly obliterates our...

... of Selfhood 485 history and otherness, perhaps, as Lacan supposes, in misrecognition; perhaps, as Foucault argues, in subjugation. If a first denial says that there is no autonomous, transcendental self to contemplate consciousness, a second says that there is no coher...

..., the reader will find no mention of Jean-Francois Lyotard, for example, or of his critique of “grand narratives,” with which Kavanagh’s perspective seems to resonate. The same could be said about the relation of Esthetics of the Moment to the work of Michel Foucault. Kavanagh’s argument...