Victoria Best
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Best |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Best |
| SIGNATURE | BEST V |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's College, Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Active involvement in alcohol care
This is a descriptive case study of a public engagement group of people who have used alcohol care services. Involvement of people with lived and living experience is increasingly recognized as essential in health and social care policy. However, in alcohol care services, such involvement remains underdeveloped and sometimes tokenistic. This community case study outlines the establishment, development, and impact of the ACTIVE (Alcohol Care Team …
Life Beyond Death
In classic crime fiction the demonic is located first in the crime, which mobilizes the reparative function of narrative, and then in the criminal, whose identification ensures the security of the community. The pleasure of reading such texts is bound up with the localization and erasure of the demonic forces. However, the contemporary roman noir in France (particularly the works of Modiano and Japrisot) rewrites the elements of crime fiction, pr…
Physique de Colette
By Jacques Dupont. Toulouse, Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2003. 232 pp. Pb €24.00. Since the beginning of the 1990s, criticism on Colette has taken a special interest in her representation of the body. Her feminized men and virile woman, and her abiding fascination with the figure of the androgyne, have provoked a significant reappraisal of her work, which is now recognized as subversive and complex in its gender politics. Dupont's text take…
Memory and Innovation in Post-Holocaust France
This special issue explores different representations of cultural memory in France since the Holocaust, a period overshadowed by historical trauma (wars, decolonization, genocide), in which memory has become an increasingly dominant cultural obsession. Contested representations of cultural memory have given rise to important critical and philosophical debates, which pivot on the relation between memory and history, the individual and the collecti…
Sensible Ecstasy
Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, Amy Hollywood asks why resolutely secular, even anti-Christian intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and widely denigrated forms of mysticism…
Between the Harem and the Battlefield
Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures
Introduction: maternal pasts Part I. Nostalgia: The Lost Mother: 1. Blanchot's mother 2. Lips in the mirror: Irigaray's specular mother Part II. Nostalgia and Ethics: Approaching the Other: 3. Imperialsit nostalgia: Kristeva's maternal Chora 4. Luce et veritas: toward an ethics of performance Part III. Toward Another Model: 5. From Lesbos to Montreal: Brossards's urban fictions Afterword: feminist futures Notes Bibliography Index.
Mastering the image
Memory and Innovation in Post-Holocaust France
This special issue explores different representations of cultural memory in France since the Holocaust, a period overshadowed by historical trauma (wars, decolonization, genocide), in which memory has become an increasingly dominant cultural obsession. Contested representations of cultural memory have given rise to important critical and philosophical debates, which pivot on the relation between memory and history, the individual and the collecti…
Mastering the image
Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures
Introduction: maternal pasts Part I. Nostalgia: The Lost Mother: 1. Blanchot's mother 2. Lips in the mirror: Irigaray's specular mother Part II. Nostalgia and Ethics: Approaching the Other: 3. Imperialsit nostalgia: Kristeva's maternal Chora 4. Luce et veritas: toward an ethics of performance Part III. Toward Another Model: 5. From Lesbos to Montreal: Brossards's urban fictions Afterword: feminist futures Notes Bibliography Index.
Between the Harem and the Battlefield
Sensible Ecstasy
Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, Amy Hollywood asks why resolutely secular, even anti-Christian intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and widely denigrated forms of mysticism…
Memory and Innovation in Post-Holocaust France
This special issue explores different representations of cultural memory in France since the Holocaust, a period overshadowed by historical trauma (wars, decolonization, genocide), in which memory has become an increasingly dominant cultural obsession. Contested representations of cultural memory have given rise to important critical and philosophical debates, which pivot on the relation between memory and history, the individual and the collecti…
Life Beyond Death
In classic crime fiction the demonic is located first in the crime, which mobilizes the reparative function of narrative, and then in the criminal, whose identification ensures the security of the community. The pleasure of reading such texts is bound up with the localization and erasure of the demonic forces. However, the contemporary roman noir in France (particularly the works of Modiano and Japrisot) rewrites the elements of crime fiction, pr…
Physique de Colette
By Jacques Dupont. Toulouse, Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2003. 232 pp. Pb €24.00. Since the beginning of the 1990s, criticism on Colette has taken a special interest in her representation of the body. Her feminized men and virile woman, and her abiding fascination with the figure of the androgyne, have provoked a significant reappraisal of her work, which is now recognized as subversive and complex in its gender politics. Dupont's text take…
Active involvement in alcohol care
This is a descriptive case study of a public engagement group of people who have used alcohol care services. Involvement of people with lived and living experience is increasingly recognized as essential in health and social care policy. However, in alcohol care services, such involvement remains underdeveloped and sometimes tokenistic. This community case study outlines the establishment, development, and impact of the ACTIVE (Alcohol Care Team …
Art (7 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)