Mary Lydon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Lydon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Lydon |
| SIGNATURE | LYDON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The National Gallery |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Uncovering a lost narrative: Rediscovering Paulus Potter's Head of a White Bull through multidisciplinary analysis
"Veduta on "Discours, figure
Skirting the Issue: Essays in Literary Theory
A reply
Re-Translating no Re-Reading no, rather: Rejoycing (With) Helene Cixous
Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette
Research Article| November 01 1991 Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette Mary Lydon Mary Lydon Mary Lydon is Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Perpetuum Mobile: A Study in the Novels and Aesthetics of Michel Butor (Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 1980), and of a forthcoming volume of essays on twentieth-century French literature from a feminist, psychoanalytic, and deconstructionist pe…
Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body
Skirting the Issue: Mallarme, Proust, and Symbolism
Translating Duras: "The Seated Man in the Passage"
It would be inappropriate for me to write an apologia for the text by Marguerite Duras that I have translated, to run interference for her as it were. Still, it is perhaps desirable, given the context of this number of Contemporary Literature devoted to the question of l'lcriture fiminine, and given the nature of Duras's text, which puts it at variance with certain views on sexuality, to provide a commentary on the translation, for which I am res…
Questioning the Unconscious: The Dora Archive
Fiscourse Digure: The Utopia behind the Scenes of the Phantasy
And that figure I named matrix, is it coherent?' Can we say it is one: unified and unifying? What kind of unity does it have? The unity of a language? If so, is its unity that of a language-system (langue) or that of a discourse? What I want to show is this: that the matrix is not a language, not a linguistic structure (une structure de langue), not a tree of discourses. Of all the figural orders it is the most remote from communicability, the mo…
On Censorship: Staying Power
ber 6, 1933, the Honourable John M. Woolsey lifted the ban on Joyce's novel. His opinion suggests, with nicely judged irony, that whereas nausea may, at pinch, be permissibly induced in the American reader, sexual stimulation may not. Or more figuratively, not to say more graphically put: throwing up is legitimate reader response, getting it up is taboo. The quotation with which I have chosen to preface this essay is sufficient indication, I beli…
Myself and M/Others
Perpetuum Mobile: A Study of the Novels and Aesthetics of Michel Butor
Fiscourse Digure: The Utopia behind the Scenes of the Phantasy
And that figure I named matrix, is it coherent?' Can we say it is one: unified and unifying? What kind of unity does it have? The unity of a language? If so, is its unity that of a language-system (langue) or that of a discourse? What I want to show is this: that the matrix is not a language, not a linguistic structure (une structure de langue), not a tree of discourses. Of all the figural orders it is the most remote from communicability, the mo…
Myself and M/Others
Myself and M/Others
Perpetuum Mobile: A Study of the Novels and Aesthetics of Michel Butor
Translating Duras: "The Seated Man in the Passage"
It would be inappropriate for me to write an apologia for the text by Marguerite Duras that I have translated, to run interference for her as it were. Still, it is perhaps desirable, given the context of this number of Contemporary Literature devoted to the question of l'lcriture fiminine, and given the nature of Duras's text, which puts it at variance with certain views on sexuality, to provide a commentary on the translation, for which I am res…
Questioning the Unconscious: The Dora Archive
Fiscourse Digure: The Utopia behind the Scenes of the Phantasy
And that figure I named matrix, is it coherent?' Can we say it is one: unified and unifying? What kind of unity does it have? The unity of a language? If so, is its unity that of a language-system (langue) or that of a discourse? What I want to show is this: that the matrix is not a language, not a linguistic structure (une structure de langue), not a tree of discourses. Of all the figural orders it is the most remote from communicability, the mo…
On Censorship: Staying Power
ber 6, 1933, the Honourable John M. Woolsey lifted the ban on Joyce's novel. His opinion suggests, with nicely judged irony, that whereas nausea may, at pinch, be permissibly induced in the American reader, sexual stimulation may not. Or more figuratively, not to say more graphically put: throwing up is legitimate reader response, getting it up is taboo. The quotation with which I have chosen to preface this essay is sufficient indication, I beli…
Skirting the Issue: Mallarme, Proust, and Symbolism
Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body
Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette
Research Article| November 01 1991 Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette Mary Lydon Mary Lydon Mary Lydon is Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Perpetuum Mobile: A Study in the Novels and Aesthetics of Michel Butor (Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 1980), and of a forthcoming volume of essays on twentieth-century French literature from a feminist, psychoanalytic, and deconstructionist pe…
Re-Translating no Re-Reading no, rather: Rejoycing (With) Helene Cixous
A reply
Skirting the Issue: Essays in Literary Theory
"Veduta on "Discours, figure
Uncovering a lost narrative: Rediscovering Paulus Potter's Head of a White Bull through multidisciplinary analysis
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