"Idealism / Realism/ Modernism: Rethinking Literary History, or, How Modernism Emerged,"

"Idealism / Realism/ Modernism: Rethinking Literary History, or, How Modernism Emerged," 

A Lecture by Toril Moi

James B. Duke Professor of Literature & Romance Studies and Professor of English, Duke University

Wednesday, Sept. 24, 4:30 PM, Margaret Morrison 103

Toril Moi is author of Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2006. Ibsens modernisme, the Norwegian translation by Agnete Øye, was published by Pax Forlag in Oslo in May 2006. The book won the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the best book in Comparative Literary Studies in 2007. In spring 2008, the 2nd edition of her book, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (with a major new introductory chapter) was published. Her other books include Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985; 2nd edition 2002), and What Is a Woman? And Other Essays (1999), republished in a shorter version as Sex, Gender and the Body (2005). She is the editor of The Kristeva Reader (1986), and of French Feminist Thought (1987).