Leslie Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8825-0909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Like a dog [wie ein Hund]’
Blanchot's Three Voices
Divided between the literary, the philosophico-critical, and the political, Blanchot's writing was particularly sensitive to the plurality of these divergent modes of expression, each of which, in distinctive ways, was fragmentary and incomplete. Literature, philosophy, and history in other words were never the site of totalising power, but always already premissed on their interruption. From that standpoint Blanchot reacted to the postwar threat…
Successes and Challenges in Implementing a Human Trafficking Screening Tool in a Local Detention Center
Research solidly documents the victim-offender overlap in various crimes, including human trafficking. Given the hidden nature of this exploitative crime, increasing the identification of victims is crucial. One way to do this is through the creation and implementation of screening tools. To date, most screening tools for human trafficking victims are created by and implemented in the field of health care or with youth or young adults, particular…
Naming, Blaming, and Claiming
Despite efforts to combat human trafficking, most instances remain unacknowledged and unidentified. Through in-depth interviews with human trafficking survivors, this research uses a naming, blaming, and claiming framework to provide a comprehensive understanding of why human trafficking victims often do not disclose their victimization. Consistent with this framework, the interviews reveal that human trafficking victims face barriers in naming t…
Is a seat at the table sufficient? Specialized unit participation and perspectives of female law enforcement officers
Over the past few decades, the presence of women on specialized units has become more commonplace. Despite this, they are still under-represented, especially among traditionally male-dominated units. This exploratory study surveyed 76 female law enforcement officers to gauge the types of specialized units in which they participate and assess their perceptions about working in a male dominated field. Results indicated that while a large portion of…
Critical Likes and Dislikes
Writers, readers, critics all have strong personal preferences. Roland Barthes was a case in point. Many were the texts he chose to affirm. Others he rejected, while some were left to hover in the margins of his thinking. Still others barely feature at all, among which, conspicuous by their absence, are the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett. This article examines the political, theoretical and affective reasons for Barthes's apparent indifferenc…
A Beastly Bargain
Dog-training programs have become a popular form of alternative prison programming. One of the reported benefits of these programs is their low cost to the criminal justice system. Very little research has been conducted on their effects on offenders, and, to date, no cost-benefit analyses have been reported. This article presents a cost-benefit analysis using program cost and updated recidivism results from an evaluation of dog-training programs…
The Fragility of Thinking
In a recent volume titled Demande (Expectation), containing texts written over a period of more than thirty years, but each devoted to different aspects of the relationship between philosophy and literature, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a suggestive account of their mutual genesis and ongoing dialogue in order to underline the way in which, beyond their apparent dialectical reciprocity, philosophy and literature are each inseparable from the unanswered …
O dia mais jovem
Com base em A partir de fragmentos de L'Écriture du désastre e de outros escritos de Maurice Blanchot, este artigo trata da relação entre a história (ou a outra história), as suas rupturas e o desastre. Para abordar essa relação, Blanchot recorre, em seus escritos, a autores como Wittgenstein, Hölderlin, Kafka, Melville (principalmente Bartleby, o Escrivão) e Levinas. Com base nesses autores, Blanchot elabora seu pensamento acerca da aporia messi…
The Prey or the Shadow
During the late 1930s, towards the beginning of a long and colourful career as a translator, writer, novelist and painter, Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) proved an attentive reader of the work of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). This article examines Klossowski's twofold engagement with Kierkegaard, the first in the form of a commentary, published in Bataille's magazine Acéphale in 1937 addressing the Dane's use of Mozart's Don Giov…
Sex, Suffrage and the Stage
Marking the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage, Leslie Hill provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement. Hill's approachable overview explores some of the pivotal ways in which theatre makers both engaged with and influenced feminist discourse on topics such as sexual agency, reproductive rights, marr…
Becoming the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are
Dog Training Programs have recently become a popular rehabilitative program within correctional facilities, however the empirical literature on the effectiveness of these widespread programs is sparse. Using propensity score matching and logistic regression, a cohort of inmates released from Florida prisons between the years of 2004-2011 is examined to determine the effectiveness of dog training programs on post-release recidivism. Findings indic…
When in Doubt, Go to the Library
The paper is an extension of a previous study, which examined student perceptions of a unique freshman seminar offered to Criminology and Criminal Justice students at Florida State University. The seminar is characterized by a heavy focus on interactive library sessions in which students learn how to conduct research and write a scholarly paper. The previous article reported on student perceptions of research and writing skills developed in the s…
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Phrase (extracts)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Phrase (extracts) Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Translated by Leslie Hill PHRASE I ... let—let it come (or yield, more likely,or rise up, though barely so),that which won't come and can't reach where it's going, if onlyfor lack of an infallible line in the sandand because it's evident that, in you, somewhere else,not a place where you get agitated, is where it flowsor dissolves (I don't know, I thinkof a face exhausted, betra…
From Deconstruction to Disaster (Derrida, Blanchot, Hegel)
Derrida's Glas (1974) found one of its most attentive readers in Maurice Blanchot, whose fragmentary volume L'Ecriture du désastre (The Writing of the Disaster) (1980) responds in a number of ways to Derrida's book, in particular to its reading of Hegel. This article retraces the silent dialogue between Derrida and Blanchot as it unfolds in the two texts mentioned as well as in several others, including some of Blanchot's earlier essays and ficti…
Everything Old is New Again
This is a report of an action-research project undertaken in tandem with the development of a new freshman seminar in criminology and criminal justice. In the freshman seminar the goal is to teach the research, critical thinking and writing skills that are the underpinnings of scholarship and good citizenship. Utilizing a unique approach, this class focuses on resources available through the University library and is taught by a professor, two li…
Not Half No End
O Himmlisch Licht
In Godard's Le Mépris [Contempt, 1963], Fritz Lang, playing a fictional version of himself, evokes the complex relationship between cinema's future and the end of cinema by citing a famous verse from the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, according to which what counts in respect of poetry is henceforth no longer the secret persistence of the gods, nor their covert proximity, but their enduring absence. This paper explores the implications of that …
Radical Indecision
A Future for Theory
What is it that guarantees the truth of literary theory? And what is it that testifies to its survival into the future? This paper, intended primarily as a tribute to the work of Malcolm Bowie, examines some of the implications of Bowie's view that literary theory, rigorously applied, as in the case of psychoanalysis, was inseparable from its status as creative, productive, futural, perhaps even fictional performance. The paper considers these qu…
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida
Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930–2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual movements of the present century, and Derrida's own innovative writings on literature and philosophy are crucially relevant for any understanding of the future of literature and literary criticism toda…
Responses and Interventions
Responses and Interventions (1946–98) Maurice Blanchot r Days of Hope by André Malraux. 'L'Espoir d'André Malraux', in L'Espagne libre, collection 'Actualité' (Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1946), 106–11. Blanchot's contribution to the first and only issue of a review founded by Georges Bataille, which was to be edited jointly by him, Blanchot and Jean Prévost. It isperhaps opportune to wonder why Malraux's novel about Spain is called 'Days of Hope'.1 The…
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Few thinkers of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). This book provides an introduction to Derrida's writings on literature which presupposes no prior knowledge of his work. It explores in detail Derrida's relationship to literary theory and criticism, and offers close readings of some of his best-known essays. This introduction will help tho…
Maurice Blanchot, 1907-2003
Not In Our Name
Readers of Blanchot have long been aware of the importance of politics in the writer's intellectual itinerary. But though the history of Blanchot's political involvements is now quite well documented (albeit frequently misrepresented to polemical ends), much remains to be understood about Blanchot's conception of the political. Prompted in part by his support for the ‘Not In Our Name’ appeal, which was to be one of Blanchot's last political gestu…
Naming, Blaming, and Claiming
Despite efforts to combat human trafficking, most instances remain unacknowledged and unidentified. Through in-depth interviews with human trafficking survivors, this research uses a naming, blaming, and claiming framework to provide a comprehensive understanding of why human trafficking victims often do not disclose their victimization. Consistent with this framework, the interviews reveal that human trafficking victims face barriers in naming t…
Becoming the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are
Dog Training Programs have recently become a popular rehabilitative program within correctional facilities, however the empirical literature on the effectiveness of these widespread programs is sparse. Using propensity score matching and logistic regression, a cohort of inmates released from Florida prisons between the years of 2004-2011 is examined to determine the effectiveness of dog training programs on post-release recidivism. Findings indic…
The World is Not Enough
Marguerite Duras and the limits of fiction
Barthes's Body
Robbe-Grillet
Selected Articles on the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
Flaubert and the Rhetoric of Stupidity
The Name, the Body, ‘The Unnamable’
Unfortunately I am afraid, as always, of going on. For to go on means going on from here, means finding me, vanishing and beginning again, a stranger first, then little by little the same as always, in another place, where I shall say I have always been, of which I shall know nothing, being incapable of seeing, moving, thinking, speaking, but of which little by little, in spite of these handicaps, I shall begin to know something, just enough for …
Reading Beckett's Remainders
Journal Article READING BECKETT'S REMAINDERS Get access LESLIE HILL LESLIE HILL WARWICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 173–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXVIII.2.173 Published: 01 April 1984
Robbe-Grillet
Barthes's Body
Marguerite Duras and the limits of fiction
Blanchot and Mallarme
Maurice Blanchot is undoubtedly one of France's most fascinating and influential literary figures, and it is for these qualities that his work as a critic is perhaps best known. In this paper I want to look more closely at one small, but nonetheless significant aspect of Blanchot's writing, his reading of the work of the poet Stephane Mallarm6. Indeed, to read Blanchot's literary essays or non-fiction, if I may be allowed the naive terms at this …
Beckett's Fiction
Preface 1. Murphy's law 2. The loss of species 3. The trilogy translated 4. Duality, repetition, aporia 5. Fables of genealogy 6. Naming the body 7. Experiment and failure 8. Writing remainders: Indifferent words
Obituary
Up the Republic
‘Up the Republic!’: Beckett, Writing, Politics Leslie Hill The question of politics, or the political, has rarely loomed large as a topic for debate in the world of Beckett studies. The received portrait of the writer is still largely that of a post-cultural pessimist and solipsist whose work may be enlisted at best in the cause of some kind of residual, nostalgic humanism. Admittedly, there have been an increasing number of attempts over the las…
Short notices
BLANCHOT, M. Awaiting Oblivion translated with an introduction by John Gregg University of Nebraska Press, 1997 85 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 0 8032 1257 7 CENDRON, J.‐P. Le Monde de la protection sociale Nathan, 1996 189 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 09 190135 0 CHAVANCE, B. Marx et le capitalisme Nathan, 1996 191 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 09 190100 0 MARCEL, B. and TAIEB, J. Le Chômage aujourd'hui Nathan, 1997 (2nd edition) 190 pp., …
Fleshing it Out
From the raw physicality of Aunt Bill to the radio mike performance of Push the Boat Out to the collaboration of Strange Relations, and finally to hypertext narrative work, live artist Leslie Hill traces the currents of her experimentation with form and content and explores the links between lived experience and issues of sexuality and gender in her performance work
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Blanchot
Three Texts
A Kind of Struggle’
Blanchot
Blanchot provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. Although Blanchot's work is characterised by a fragmentary and complex style, Leslie Hill introduces clearly and accessibly the key themes in his work. He shows how Blanchot questions the very existence of philosophy and literature and how we may distinguish between them, stresses the importance of his political writings and the relationsh…
The World is Not Enough
Redefining the Terms
Distrust of Poetry
"Distrust of Poetry":Levinas, Blanchot, Celan Leslie Hill I "Aller Anfang ist schwer." All beginnings are difficult. The beginning, as far as this paper is concerned, perhaps like all beginnings, was an unexpected encounter, an event, a chance moment when the author of these lines (not for the first time, but as though it were the first time) came across a brief sixteen-word fragment from Maurice Blanchot's Le Pas au-delà [The Step Not Beyond], a…
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida
Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930–2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual movements of the present century, and Derrida's own innovative writings on literature and philosophy are crucially relevant for any understanding of the future of literature and literary criticism toda…
Responses and Interventions
Responses and Interventions (1946–98) Maurice Blanchot r Days of Hope by André Malraux. 'L'Espoir d'André Malraux', in L'Espagne libre, collection 'Actualité' (Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1946), 106–11. Blanchot's contribution to the first and only issue of a review founded by Georges Bataille, which was to be edited jointly by him, Blanchot and Jean Prévost. It isperhaps opportune to wonder why Malraux's novel about Spain is called 'Days of Hope'.1 The…
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Few thinkers of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). This book provides an introduction to Derrida's writings on literature which presupposes no prior knowledge of his work. It explores in detail Derrida's relationship to literary theory and criticism, and offers close readings of some of his best-known essays. This introduction will help tho…
Maurice Blanchot, 1907-2003
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