Lawrence D Kritzman

Biographic Data

ID545811
NAMELawrence D Kritzman
GIVEN NAMESLawrence D
FAMILY NAMEKritzman
SIGNATUREKRITZMAN L D
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne’s “Des Boyteux”

    Lawrence D KritzmanCHAPTERMonster Theory2018

  • Barthes's Death Sentences and the End of Literature

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2017

    Barthes's Death Sentences and the End of Literature Lawrence D. Kritzman (bio) We don't forget, but something vacant settlesin us. (Barthes, Mourning Diary) This terrible solitude which is mine orours at the death of the other is whatconstitutes that relationship to self whichwe call "me," "us," between us, "subjectivity,""intersubjectivity," "memory." (Derrida 34) To talk about Barthes the man, one must examine his relationship to both reading a…

  • Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and the Jewish Question in France

    Lawrence D KritzmanBOOKAuschwitz and After2014

    Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more startling have been the increasingly shocking revelations that the politics of collaboration were a mere extension of a deep-seated French anti-semitic tradition. In the shadow of these developments French writers and philosophers today are reflecting on th…

  • The Jews Who are Not One: Politics and Intellectual Life in France

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEContemporary French and…2013

    Surveying the relationships of Jews in France, this essay examines how French ideas of the nation have influenced self-definitions among French Jews. The essay also analyzes contemporary intellectual figures such as Alain Badiou on the the so-called “Jewish question” and aims to show the dangers of totalizing the name Jew

  • Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance

    Lawrence D KritzmanBOOKRhetoric of Sexuality and the…2010

  • Architecture of the utopian body: The blasons of Marot and Ronsard

    Lawrence D KritzmanCHAPTERRhetoric of Sexuality and the…2010

    The Renaissance genre of the blason anatomique constructs an architecture of love derived from the morphology of the female body. This architecture of the body produces a poetics of detail: the construction is composed of fragmentary elements organized in enumerative groups. The image of the woman is represented by a series of part objects whose variety imposes an anatomically fragmented representation. In most cases the poet's encomium , ironic …

  • Christian Delacampagne, Mensch Première Classe

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2008

    I used to joke with Christian Delacampagne that he should be made an honorary Jew. It was not because he had written about anti-Semitism and the so-called question. Neither was it because he served as cultural attach? to the French Embassy in Tel Aviv. Nor was it because he never forgot to call me and my family with warm greetings for the Jewish New Year and Passover. Christian was what we call mensch, literally meaning man or human being in Germ…

  • Derrida's Living Will

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2006

    In Memoriam:Derrida’s Living Will Lawrence D. Kritzman (bio) In Politics of Friendship Jacques Derrida claims "philia begins with the possibility of survival and that surviving is the other name of the mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited."1 It has been two years since the death of Jacques Derrida and what makes my mourning for him so formidable is my inability to find a language capable of articulating the tragic loss of one of the …

  • A Certain Idea of French: Cultural Studies, Literature and Theory

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEYale French Studies2003

  • Barthes's Way: Un Amour de Proust

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEYale journal of criticism/ The…2001

    Shortly after the death of his mother in 1978, Roland Barthes delivered a lecture at the Collège de France which contains in the Proustian reference of its title, "Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure," the desire of a son suffering from a profound separation anxiety. If Barthes, more explicitly here than anywhere before, draws on the Proustian intertext, it is in order to use it as a point of reference to dramatize an unmastered sense of m…

  • Pierre Nora, National Memory, and Democracy: A Review

    John Bodnar, Pierre Nora et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Pierre Nora, National Memory, and Democracy: A Review Get access John Bodnar John Bodnar Chancellors' Professor and chair of the history department Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 951–963, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675281 Published: 01 December 2000

  • Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, Volume One: Conflicts and Divisions

    David G Troyansky, Pierre Nora et al.ARTICLEThe History Teacher1998

  • Camus's Curious Humanism or the Intellectual in Exile

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEModern Language Notes1997

    MLN - Volume 112, Number 4, September 1997 (French Issue)

  • Identity Crises: France, Culture and the Idea of the Nation

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLESubStance1995Cited by: 7References: 1

    L'A. affirme que la France semble affronter une crise d'identite liee a un sentiment de declin. Il s'efforce de comprendre les raisons de cette attitude. Il examine ensuite les differentes conceptions de la nation depuis E. Renan. Il s'interesse aux etudes litteraires aux Etats-Unis et plus particulierement a la place qu'y occupe l'etude du francais. Il montre que, dans les annees 1920, l'enseignement du francais jouissait, dans ce pays, d'un gra…

  • The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance

    Gregory De Rocher, Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLESubStance1993

  • The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the France Renaissance

    Lawrence D KritzmanBOOKRhetoric of Sexuality and the…1991

    This 1991 book examines the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the literature of the French Renaissance by exploring the issues of gender, the body, and repression in many of the key literary texts of the period, including Scève, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Ronsard, and Montaigne. By means of detailed readings of individual texts, Lawrence Kritzman examines how sexuality functions as a rhetorical trope through which desire is rep…

  • Melancholia becomes the subject: Kristeva's invisible 'Thing' and the making of culture

    Open AccessLawrence D KritzmanARTICLEParagraph1991Cited by: 1

  • Le Signe et le Texte. Etudes sur l'ecriture au XVIe siecle en France

    Cynthia Skenazi, Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLESubStance1991

  • Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984

    Michel Foucault, Lawrence D Kritzman et al.REVIEWChoice Reviews Online1989

    Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music, and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and th…

  • Roland Barthes: The Discourse of Desire and the Question of Gender

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEModern Language Notes1988Cited by: 1

    Barthes' rhetoric of sexuality transcribes the text as a body imbued with libidinal energy and capable of generating fantasies through a figurative language that articulates theoretical fictions. In the process of delineating these critical texts, writing aspires to the status of matter. What Barthes terms the grain of the voice-la materialite du corps parlant sa langue maternelle (00, 238)-comes to signify how the body speaks in writing through …

  • Terms of Endearment: The French and the Jews

    Lawrence D Kritzman, Michaël R Marrus et al.ARTICLESubStance1986

  • Barthesian Free Play

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEYale French Studies1984

  • Prefiguring history: La Ceppède and the representation of the sacred

    Open AccessLawrence D KritzmanARTICLESemiotica1984References: 1

  • La Vie en Rose

    Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEContemporary French Civilization1984

  • Destruction/Decouverte: Le fonctionnement de la rhetorique dans les "Essais" de Montaigne

    Frieda S Brown, Lawrence D KritzmanARTICLEPoetics Today1983