Diana Knight
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Knight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Knight |
| SIGNATURE | KNIGHT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Barthes deliberates: Pascal, Ignatius and the question of the diary
This article traces the interconnections between the rhetoric and actuality of Barthes’s proclaimed inability to choose between the polarised forms of Album and Book, of fragmentary Diary and all-embracing Novel. In The Preparation of the Novel, his pedagogical rehearsal of this indecision is structured as the theatrical ‘deliberation’ of the writer faced with the relentless obligation to choose. Yet Barthes underlines the appeal of thinking in t…
Except When Night Falls: Together and Alone in Barthes's Comment vivre ensemble
This essay explores the relation between Living-Together (vivre ensemble) and Living-Alone (vivre seul) by analysing the overlap between two figures sketched out in Comment vivre ensemble: Autarky and Enclosure. Barthes's ambivalence towards enclosure and self-sufficiency - ideologically negative, existentially and neurotically positive - is traced backwards through a number of 1950s essays to his 1947 proto-mythology Esquisse d'une société sanat…
Between Genders: Narrating Difference in Early French Modernism
By Nathaniel Wing. Newark, University of Delaware Press — London, Associated University Presses, 2004. 206 pp. Hb £30.50. Nathaniel Wing's book covers rather familiar territory, but does so in a series of well-written and useful close readings of five important French texts from the early and mid-nineteenth century. On the one hand, the corpus is chosen for its generic diversity and Wing remains alert throughout to narrative strategies. On the ot…
The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality
By Michael Lucey. Durham, NC — London, Duke University Press, 2003. xxx + 308 pp. Hb £69.00. Pb £17.50. Michael Lucey's important book on Balzac is a welcome departure from studies of sexuality that focus obsessively on the construction and deconstruction of identity. In his detailed readings of a corpus of ten or so canonical texts of La Comédie humaine, sexuality is ‘not in any primary way a place of selfhood or identity’ (p. 223), and Balzac e…
From Painting to Sculpture: Balzac, Pygmalion and the Secret of Relief in Sarrasine and The Unknown Masterpiece
Skeletons in the Closet: Homosocial Secrets in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine
This article explores the potential for a reading of Balzac of the interrelated critical concepts of the ‘open secret’ (D. A. Miller, 1985) and the ‘epistemology of the closet’ (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1990). They are used to establish a connection between the content of Balzac's realist representations of homosociality, homosexuality and homophobia in La Comédie humaine and the epistemological status of the secrets that circulate within this vast…
Where to Begin
Barthes's "Where to Begin?" is an essay obsessed with beginnings, in the first instance methodological. Originally published in 1970, as the opening article of the very first issue of Poétique, it sets out in pedagogical mode: a first-person Barthes conjures up an imaginary student wishing to undertake a structural analysis of a literary text, graced with all manner of appropriate and promising qualities, yet facing the inevitable problem of ever…
What is a Woman: And Other Essays (review)
MLN - Volume 115, Number 4, September 2000 (French Issue)
Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing
Vie de Barthes
Calvet, L.‐J., Roland Barthes: A Biography, translated by Sarah Wykes (Polity Press, 1994), xv + 291pp., £25, ISBN 0 7456 1017 X Rylance, R., Roland Barthes (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994), xxii + 161pp., £40 hbk, ISBN 0 7450 0721 X and £11.95 pbk, ISBN 0 7450 0722 8
Patterns of dissonance: A study of women in contemporary philosophy
Barthes and Orientalism
Quelques aspects du discours orientaliste de Barthes sur le colonialisme, le dualisme est/ouest, et la sexualite
Roland Barthes in Harmony: The writing of Utopia
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert
The order of mimesis: poison, nausea, health 2. The economy of mimesis 3. Balzac: narrative contracts 4. Stendhal: the ethics of verisimilitude 5. Nerval: the madness of mimesis 6. Flaubert: the stupidity of mimesis 7. Conclusion: mimesis, a matter for the police? Notes Translations Select bibliography Index
A feminist paragraph
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
1. Introduction 2. Story: events 3. Story: characters 4. Text: time 5. Text: characterization 6. Text: focalization 7. Narration: levels and voices 8. Narration: speech representation 9. The text and its reading 10. Conclusion 11. Towards...:afterthoughts, almost twenty years later
Roland Barthes: The Corpus and the Corps
Saving the story: Literary theory and the status of fictional events
The Readability of René's Secret
THE READABILITY OF RENÉ'S SECRET Get access DIANA KNIGHT DIANA KNIGHT NOTTINGHAM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1, January 1983, Pages 35–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXVII.1.35 Published: 01 January 1983
Structuralism or Criticism: Thoughts on How We Read
Introduction. Reading as distinct from talking or writing about books 2. Benveniste and semiology: or where structuralism doesn't work Part II: 3. Thoughts on how we read Part III: 4. The Utopianism of Roland Barthes 5. The criticism of F. R. Levis Notes Bibliography Index
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
1. Introduction 2. Story: events 3. Story: characters 4. Text: time 5. Text: characterization 6. Text: focalization 7. Narration: levels and voices 8. Narration: speech representation 9. The text and its reading 10. Conclusion 11. Towards...:afterthoughts, almost twenty years later
Except When Night Falls: Together and Alone in Barthes's Comment vivre ensemble
This essay explores the relation between Living-Together (vivre ensemble) and Living-Alone (vivre seul) by analysing the overlap between two figures sketched out in Comment vivre ensemble: Autarky and Enclosure. Barthes's ambivalence towards enclosure and self-sufficiency - ideologically negative, existentially and neurotically positive - is traced backwards through a number of 1950s essays to his 1947 proto-mythology Esquisse d'une société sanat…
Patterns of dissonance: A study of women in contemporary philosophy
Roland Barthes in Harmony: The writing of Utopia
Saving the story: Literary theory and the status of fictional events
The Readability of René's Secret
THE READABILITY OF RENÉ'S SECRET Get access DIANA KNIGHT DIANA KNIGHT NOTTINGHAM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1, January 1983, Pages 35–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXVII.1.35 Published: 01 January 1983
Structuralism or Criticism: Thoughts on How We Read
Introduction. Reading as distinct from talking or writing about books 2. Benveniste and semiology: or where structuralism doesn't work Part II: 3. Thoughts on how we read Part III: 4. The Utopianism of Roland Barthes 5. The criticism of F. R. Levis Notes Bibliography Index
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
1. Introduction 2. Story: events 3. Story: characters 4. Text: time 5. Text: characterization 6. Text: focalization 7. Narration: levels and voices 8. Narration: speech representation 9. The text and its reading 10. Conclusion 11. Towards...:afterthoughts, almost twenty years later
Roland Barthes: The Corpus and the Corps
A feminist paragraph
Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert
The order of mimesis: poison, nausea, health 2. The economy of mimesis 3. Balzac: narrative contracts 4. Stendhal: the ethics of verisimilitude 5. Nerval: the madness of mimesis 6. Flaubert: the stupidity of mimesis 7. Conclusion: mimesis, a matter for the police? Notes Translations Select bibliography Index
Roland Barthes in Harmony: The writing of Utopia
Patterns of dissonance: A study of women in contemporary philosophy
Barthes and Orientalism
Quelques aspects du discours orientaliste de Barthes sur le colonialisme, le dualisme est/ouest, et la sexualite
Vie de Barthes
Calvet, L.‐J., Roland Barthes: A Biography, translated by Sarah Wykes (Polity Press, 1994), xv + 291pp., £25, ISBN 0 7456 1017 X Rylance, R., Roland Barthes (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994), xxii + 161pp., £40 hbk, ISBN 0 7450 0721 X and £11.95 pbk, ISBN 0 7450 0722 8
Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing
What is a Woman: And Other Essays (review)
MLN - Volume 115, Number 4, September 2000 (French Issue)
Where to Begin
Barthes's "Where to Begin?" is an essay obsessed with beginnings, in the first instance methodological. Originally published in 1970, as the opening article of the very first issue of Poétique, it sets out in pedagogical mode: a first-person Barthes conjures up an imaginary student wishing to undertake a structural analysis of a literary text, graced with all manner of appropriate and promising qualities, yet facing the inevitable problem of ever…
Skeletons in the Closet: Homosocial Secrets in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine
This article explores the potential for a reading of Balzac of the interrelated critical concepts of the ‘open secret’ (D. A. Miller, 1985) and the ‘epistemology of the closet’ (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1990). They are used to establish a connection between the content of Balzac's realist representations of homosociality, homosexuality and homophobia in La Comédie humaine and the epistemological status of the secrets that circulate within this vast…
From Painting to Sculpture: Balzac, Pygmalion and the Secret of Relief in Sarrasine and The Unknown Masterpiece
Between Genders: Narrating Difference in Early French Modernism
By Nathaniel Wing. Newark, University of Delaware Press — London, Associated University Presses, 2004. 206 pp. Hb £30.50. Nathaniel Wing's book covers rather familiar territory, but does so in a series of well-written and useful close readings of five important French texts from the early and mid-nineteenth century. On the one hand, the corpus is chosen for its generic diversity and Wing remains alert throughout to narrative strategies. On the ot…
The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality
By Michael Lucey. Durham, NC — London, Duke University Press, 2003. xxx + 308 pp. Hb £69.00. Pb £17.50. Michael Lucey's important book on Balzac is a welcome departure from studies of sexuality that focus obsessively on the construction and deconstruction of identity. In his detailed readings of a corpus of ten or so canonical texts of La Comédie humaine, sexuality is ‘not in any primary way a place of selfhood or identity’ (p. 223), and Balzac e…
Except When Night Falls: Together and Alone in Barthes's Comment vivre ensemble
This essay explores the relation between Living-Together (vivre ensemble) and Living-Alone (vivre seul) by analysing the overlap between two figures sketched out in Comment vivre ensemble: Autarky and Enclosure. Barthes's ambivalence towards enclosure and self-sufficiency - ideologically negative, existentially and neurotically positive - is traced backwards through a number of 1950s essays to his 1947 proto-mythology Esquisse d'une société sanat…
Barthes deliberates: Pascal, Ignatius and the question of the diary
This article traces the interconnections between the rhetoric and actuality of Barthes’s proclaimed inability to choose between the polarised forms of Album and Book, of fragmentary Diary and all-embracing Novel. In The Preparation of the Novel, his pedagogical rehearsal of this indecision is structured as the theatrical ‘deliberation’ of the writer faced with the relentless obligation to choose. Yet Barthes underlines the appeal of thinking in t…
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