Margot Norris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margot Norris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margot |
| FAMILY NAME | Norris |
| SIGNATURE | NORRIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
War and Literary Studies
“Tatters, Bloom’s Cat, and Other Animals in Ulysses”
Given how few animals appear in the stories of Dubliners and in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, we may be surprised to find a dog and a cat playing small roles in the third and fourth chapters of Ulysses. Their appearance in adjacent episodes is neither coincidental nor entirely casual, however, if one takes a careful look at their presentations. The animals’ circumstances are very different. Stephen Dedalus has been walking along the st…
Roll away the reel world
The True Story of Alice B. Toklas
Reviewed by: The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies Margot Norris (bio) Anna Linzie . The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2006. 230 pp. ISBN 0-877-49585-1, $34.95. The starting point for Anna Linzie's engaging study is the exploration of Alice B. Toklas as a construct of three texts: Gertrude Stein's 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Toklas's own 1954 T…
Fact, Fiction, and Anti-Semitism in the 'Cyclops' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses
Fact, Fiction, and Anti-Semitism in the 'Cyclops' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses Margot Norris (bio) The Question of Truth in Narration A fascinating debate on the narration of the 'Cyclops' chapter (12) in James Joyce's Ulysses—the episode in which Leopold Bloom has an altercation with an anti-Semitic "citizen"—flared up in the nineteen-seventies. David Hayman put forward an argument about the Erzählzeit of the episode—the time of its telling—that p…
The Human Animal in Fiction
Dividing the Indivisible
he cancellation of the Smithsonian Institution's planned exhibition accompanying the display of the Enola Gay-the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945-effectively demonstrated history as the inevitably conflictual discourse that philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard calls phrases in dispute (The Differend). The exhibit, designed as an even-handed moderation of conflicting interpretations, would …
Military Censorship and the Body Count in the Persian Gulf War
In The Body in Pain, her 1985 study of ontological structure of war, Elaine Scarry writes, the more accurately nature of war is described, more likely chances that it will one day be displaced by a structural surrogate (143). The aim and function of military censorship and discursive control over information and knowability of recent Persian Gulf War-considered unprecedented in modern times-has seemingly reversed Scarry's hope, and reinstated an …
Beasts of the Modern Imagination
Kafka's Josefine
Josefine, die Singerin oder Das Volk der Miuse, the last piece Kafka wrote,' is not a story about art, or the repudiation of art, but a gesture of retraction not unlike his own last will and testament. In his several instructions to Max Brod, he requested the burning of his entire Nachlafi, unread, and forbade the reprinting of published works (should they disappear altogether that would please me best)2-a request Brod not only refused to honor, …
Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the Problem of Mimesis
Darwin's evolutionary theory crossed disciplinary boundaries from the moment of its publication, to exert a revolutionary impact on political theory, economics, and particularly the social histories of Marx and of the Social Darwinists. Less well known is the genealogy of Darwin's influence in the realms of philosophy and art, where we may trace him as the author of a theory of that reverses the Aristotelian aesthetic by showing life itself to be…
"The Decentered Universe of "Finnegans' Wake
Sadism and Masochism in Two Kafka Stories
Ces deux recits sont complementaires porno-logiquement et philosophiquement parlant (sadisme/masochisme, loi/ideal) de meme que du point de vue psychanalytique (relation au pere et a la mere)
The Consequence of Deconstruction
"The Decentered Universe of "Finnegans' Wake
Military Censorship and the Body Count in the Persian Gulf War
In The Body in Pain, her 1985 study of ontological structure of war, Elaine Scarry writes, the more accurately nature of war is described, more likely chances that it will one day be displaced by a structural surrogate (143). The aim and function of military censorship and discursive control over information and knowability of recent Persian Gulf War-considered unprecedented in modern times-has seemingly reversed Scarry's hope, and reinstated an …
Dividing the Indivisible
he cancellation of the Smithsonian Institution's planned exhibition accompanying the display of the Enola Gay-the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945-effectively demonstrated history as the inevitably conflictual discourse that philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard calls phrases in dispute (The Differend). The exhibit, designed as an even-handed moderation of conflicting interpretations, would …
Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the Problem of Mimesis
Darwin's evolutionary theory crossed disciplinary boundaries from the moment of its publication, to exert a revolutionary impact on political theory, economics, and particularly the social histories of Marx and of the Social Darwinists. Less well known is the genealogy of Darwin's influence in the realms of philosophy and art, where we may trace him as the author of a theory of that reverses the Aristotelian aesthetic by showing life itself to be…
The Consequence of Deconstruction
"The Decentered Universe of "Finnegans' Wake
Sadism and Masochism in Two Kafka Stories
Ces deux recits sont complementaires porno-logiquement et philosophiquement parlant (sadisme/masochisme, loi/ideal) de meme que du point de vue psychanalytique (relation au pere et a la mere)
Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the Problem of Mimesis
Darwin's evolutionary theory crossed disciplinary boundaries from the moment of its publication, to exert a revolutionary impact on political theory, economics, and particularly the social histories of Marx and of the Social Darwinists. Less well known is the genealogy of Darwin's influence in the realms of philosophy and art, where we may trace him as the author of a theory of that reverses the Aristotelian aesthetic by showing life itself to be…
Kafka's Josefine
Josefine, die Singerin oder Das Volk der Miuse, the last piece Kafka wrote,' is not a story about art, or the repudiation of art, but a gesture of retraction not unlike his own last will and testament. In his several instructions to Max Brod, he requested the burning of his entire Nachlafi, unread, and forbade the reprinting of published works (should they disappear altogether that would please me best)2-a request Brod not only refused to honor, …
Beasts of the Modern Imagination
Military Censorship and the Body Count in the Persian Gulf War
In The Body in Pain, her 1985 study of ontological structure of war, Elaine Scarry writes, the more accurately nature of war is described, more likely chances that it will one day be displaced by a structural surrogate (143). The aim and function of military censorship and discursive control over information and knowability of recent Persian Gulf War-considered unprecedented in modern times-has seemingly reversed Scarry's hope, and reinstated an …
Dividing the Indivisible
he cancellation of the Smithsonian Institution's planned exhibition accompanying the display of the Enola Gay-the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945-effectively demonstrated history as the inevitably conflictual discourse that philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard calls phrases in dispute (The Differend). The exhibit, designed as an even-handed moderation of conflicting interpretations, would …
Fact, Fiction, and Anti-Semitism in the 'Cyclops' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses
Fact, Fiction, and Anti-Semitism in the 'Cyclops' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses Margot Norris (bio) The Question of Truth in Narration A fascinating debate on the narration of the 'Cyclops' chapter (12) in James Joyce's Ulysses—the episode in which Leopold Bloom has an altercation with an anti-Semitic "citizen"—flared up in the nineteen-seventies. David Hayman put forward an argument about the Erzählzeit of the episode—the time of its telling—that p…
The Human Animal in Fiction
The True Story of Alice B. Toklas
Reviewed by: The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies Margot Norris (bio) Anna Linzie . The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2006. 230 pp. ISBN 0-877-49585-1, $34.95. The starting point for Anna Linzie's engaging study is the exploration of Alice B. Toklas as a construct of three texts: Gertrude Stein's 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Toklas's own 1954 T…
Roll away the reel world
“Tatters, Bloom’s Cat, and Other Animals in Ulysses”
Given how few animals appear in the stories of Dubliners and in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, we may be surprised to find a dog and a cat playing small roles in the third and fourth chapters of Ulysses. Their appearance in adjacent episodes is neither coincidental nor entirely casual, however, if one takes a careful look at their presentations. The animals’ circumstances are very different. Stephen Dedalus has been walking along the st…
War and Literary Studies
Art (11 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Franz Kafka Literary Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works)