Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.
Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging are commonly understood to undermine one's sense of self and challenges narratives that register the decline of bodily potential and ability as nothing but an experience of loss.
Considers 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
From one of our most outspoken feminist critics, this collection explores various ways in which the body can be rethought of as a site of knowledge rather than as a medium to move beyond or dominate. Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers both in his novels and his life, Barthe's The Pleasure of the Text, Freud's work, read not as a psychological text but as a literary endeavor and from...
In Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation, authors argue that teachingis a performance that incorporates the personal in acts of "im-personation." AfterDavid Crane's prefatory "postscript, " George Otte recommends that students pretend, writing from various perspectives, Indira Karamcheti suggests putting on race as onecan put on gender roles. Cheryl Johnson gets personal by playing the "trickster, "and Chris Amirault explores the relationshi...
Seeks to transcend the barriers of time, space, and sexual identity that is imposed by traditional approaches to literature. This book cites as the shaping principle of her work the central tenet of intertextuality - that a literary work is not a closed system which can be characterized by reference either to its creator or to its beholder.
Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff’s side. But in 1993—amid considerable attention from the national academic community—Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of sexual harassment by two of her women graduate students. In Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, Gallop tells the story of how and why she was charged with sexual harassment and what resulted fr...
What is criticism supposed to do? Is polemic a legitimate face of criticism, or simply its excess? What does it mean to read critically or uncritically? As Jane Gallop writes in her introduction to "Polemic, " "Should the critical attitude be devoid of all passions, not just the reverent but the aggressive as well?"
These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters: Louis Menand on...
Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writers literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence.
What kind of feminist would be accused of sexual harassment? Gallop uses her dramatic personal experience to suggest that antiharassment has been transformed into a sensationalist campaign against sexuality itself.
Presenting Blau's photos and Gallop's text, this is a portrait of a couple whse professional activity is part of their private lives and whose private life is view through their professional gazes. 27 photos.
