Julia Kristeva is one of Europe's most brilliant and original theorists, widely acclaimed for her work in such diverse areas as linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary and political theory. The Kristeva Reader is a fully-comprehensive, easily accessible introduction to her work in English, containing [...]

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a fuddy-duddy old realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to mod[...]

This affordable, compact edition, designed specially for use in university courses, consists of two of the most celebrated essays from Toril Moi's highly-acclaimed "What Is a Woman?". "What is a woman?" - does it make sense to think of a woman as the combination of sex and gender? Is 'I am a woman' [...]

What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole? Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two[...]

Boka er en kritisk fremstilling av Simone de Beauvoirs liv og virke. Den spenner fra en historisk-sosiologisk analyse av det franske utdanningsvesenets rolle i hennes liv, til nærlesninger av hennes tanker om kjærlighet, begjær og seksualitet i romanene, biografiene og i "Det annet kjønn". Med k[...]

Baudelaire, Flaubert og Manet er modernismens grunnleggere. Men hvorfor ikke også Ibsen? Det Baudelaire betydde for moderne poesi, Flaubert for romanen og Manet for moderne maleri, var Ibsen for teater, skriver Toril Moi i denne store Ibsen-boken. I "Ibsens modernisme" løftes Ibsen ut av det nasjo[...]