Toril Moi will participate in the conference “Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies” at Harvard, organized by Bernie Rhie (Williams) and Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore). The conference is co-sponsored by PAL. She will present a paper entitled “Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Other: Reading Beauvoir with Cavell.” The conference begins with a celebration of the publication of Cavell’s autobiography Little Did I Know in Boylston Hall, at 6:30 p.m. on October 14, and continues with presentation and discussion of papers on October 15 and 16. For more information, click here.
Posts Tagged ‘beauvoir’
6 October 2010
Cavell Conference at Harvard 14-16 October
More debate on the translation of The Second Sex
Posted on 28 September 2010
I have posted a link to Meryl Altman’s defense of the new translation of The Second Sex under “Essays”, but include it here too. The essay appeared in the September 2010 issue of The Women’s Review of Books.
tagged with beauvoir , translation
29 June 2010
The University of Nottingham
Toril Moi will give the HSRRC Annual Lecture at the University of Nottingham (UK) at 5 p. m. on Tuesday 29 June, 2010, in the Arts Centre Lecture Theatre. The title of her lecture will be “What Does It Mean to Claim that Sex, Gender and the Body Are Socially Constructed?”
On Wednesday 30th June she will lead a seminar on the new translation of The Second Sex, in the French Department at the University of Nottingham. The seminar will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Place TBA.
tagged with beauvoir , feminist theory , lectures , translation
The Translation of The Second Sex, yet again
Posted on 21 June 2010
On June 20, The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article by Carlin Romano on the new translation of The Second Sex. Mostly about my views on the translation. For a pdf file of the text, please go to “Essays”.
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The New Translation of The Second Sex
Posted on 1 May 2010
I have uploaded my London Review of Books review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex under “Other Writing”. The pdf file contains all the letters to the editor as well. My own reply to the translators is included in the file, somewhere in the middle of the letters. You will also find my essay on the old translation of The Second Sex there, for comparison.
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The New Translation of The Second Sex
Posted on 6 February 2010
Toril Moi’s review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is now available on the website of the London Review of Books.
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The Norwegian Non-Fiction Canon
Posted on 24 September 2009
The preface I wrote specially for my own Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Simone de Beauvoir: en intellektuell kvinne blir til) made it on to the list of the 45 best non-fiction texts in Norway, selected by the national organization for teachers of Norwegian (LNU). The jury’s list was published in March 2009. See the list in Sakprosakanon for skolen.
Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman in French
Posted on 13 September 2009
Toril Moi’s book Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, 2nd ed. will be published in French by Flammarion Philosophie in 2010.
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