“Columbia University Press advertisement for Hélène Cixous, ’Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint’, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic”. London Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2005, p. 21.
Michel Foucault
Standard Name: Foucault, Michel
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Hélène Cixous | HC
was a close personal friend of Jacques Derrida
— who, like her, was a French citizen and a Jew born in Algeria. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Alison Lee
's book on AC
calls her an intellectual writer, whose novels refer to many literary, critical, and musical works, including the social and anthropological theories of Roland Barthes
, Claude Levi-Strauss
, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | The Royal Shakespeare Company
produced CC
's Softcops, a revue-style drama influenced by Foucault
's Discipline and Punish. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 111-12 |
| Literary Setting | Angela Carter | Fevvers was hatched from an egg and raised in a brothel, and sold herself into slavery to help her foster family. With the touring circus, she migrates from London to the Siberian wilderness (it turns... |
| politics | Hélène Cixous | In the 1970s, along with Foucault
and others, HC
wrote in defence of Pierre Goldman
, a Jewish immigrant accused of murder on insufficient evidence. Her defence is a violent denunciation of prejudice in the... |
Timeline
6 January 1757: Robert François Damiens stabbed the French...
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6 January 1757
Robert François Damiens
stabbed the Frenchking
in the street; he was later executed with extreme brutality as a would-be regicide: pulled limb from limb by horses, with human intervention in his dismemberment as well...
1828: The Madhouse Act was passed, creating legislation...
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1828
The Madhouse Act was passed, creating legislation for the commitment of the insane and for the employment structure of asylums.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
26, 53-4
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
160-1
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