Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture
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Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture

Thresholds of History

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eBook - ePub

Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture

Thresholds of History

About this book

The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the pre-Enlightenment roots of Luce Irigaray's thought, and the impact that her writings have had on our understanding of ancient, medieval and Renaissance culture.

Luce Irigaray has been a major figure in Anglo-American literary theory, philosophy and gender studies ever since her germinal works, Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One, were published in English translation in 1985. This collection is the first sustained examination of Irigaray's crucial relationship to premodern discourses underpinning Western culture, and of the transformative effect she has had on scholars working in pre-Enlightenment periods. Like Irigaray herself, the essays work at the intersections of gender, theory, historicism and language.

This collection offers powerful ways of understanding premodern texts through Irigaray's theories that allow us to imagine our past and present relationship to economics, science, psychoanalysis, gender, ethics and social communities in new ways.

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Yes, you can access Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture by Elizabeth D. Harvey,Theresa Krier in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2004
eBook ISBN
9781134358434
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Future anteriors: Luce Irigaray’s transmutations of the past
  11. 2 Mère marine: narrative and natality in Homer and Virgil
  12. 3 What does Matter want? Irigaray, Plotinus, and the human condition
  13. 4 Coming into the word: Desdemona’s story
  14. 5 “Mutuall elements”: Irigaray’s Donne
  15. 6 Spenser’s coastal unconscious
  16. 7 “That glorious slit”: Irigaray and the medieval devotion to Christ’s side wound
  17. 8 Early modern blazons and the rhetoric of wonder: turning towards an ethics of sexual difference
  18. 9 Gynephobia and culture change: an Irigarayan just-so story
  19. 10 The commodities dance: exchange and escape in Irigaray’s “Quand nos lèvres se parlent” and Catherine Des Roches’s “Dialogue d’Iris et Pasithée”
  20. 11 Afterword
  21. Bibliography
  22. Works by Luce Irigaray
  23. Index