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My talk, “A Literature of their Own? Women’s Writing: Myths and Realities,” with a special focus on Greek literature in Cyprus, takes the risk of dealing with the highly controversial question of “woman” and “women’s writing”. Offering an... more
Ιn Η Γυναίκα στο Κείμενο: Tέσσερις κύπριες πεζογράφοι συνομιλούν για τη λογοτεχνική γραφή: Μυρτώ Αζίνα, Νάσια Διονυσίου, Μαρία Α. Ιωάννου, Κωνσταντία Σωτηρίου [Woman in the Text: Four Cypriot women prose writers discuss about writing],... more
[Proofs; please cite published version] In recent years, some prominent scholars have been making a surprising claim: examining literary texts for hidden depths is overblown, misguided, or indeed downright dangerous. Such examination,... more
In her 1985 essay attacking Foucault’s discourse on power, Toril Moi begins: “What could be more seductive for feminists than a discourse which, like that of Michel Foucault in La volonté de savoir, focuses on the complex interaction of... more
Review of Toril Moi’s Revolution of the Ordinary:
Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell
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Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell
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The article discusses the basic concepts of Janusz Sławiński’s O opisie that are important for Polish literary studies in the wider context of the current discussion on the need to abandon the linguistic approach to literature in search... more
Cyrus Ali Zargar has produced an accessible monograph on virtue ethics in Islam as theorized and narrated by philosophical as well as mystical authors, both from the classical and the medieval periods. Zargar contributes to the field of... more
This paper addresses the question of writing and sexual difference by tracing the "sextual" politics of anonymity and the pseudonym in contemporary women's writing. Adopting a sensitive perspective toward the conquests of... more
Διεθνές Συμπόσιο "Γυναίκα: Τέχνη-Λογοτεχνία-Κοινωνία" [International Symposium "Woman: Art-Literature-Society"; with Maria Farantouri, George Veis, Neşe Yaşin, and Nouritza Marossian. Organized by the Cyprus PEN Centre (chapter of PEN... more
Forskningsprogrammet for litteraturstudier ved Aarhus Universitet arrangerte den 19. mai 2021 en paneldebatt om Toril Mois bok Revolution of the Ordinary. Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell (2017). Moi selv var... more
This paper presents five responses to Toril Moi's question of why study Pierre Bourdieu, dividing them into responses which suppose that Bourdieu's originality is negligible and responses which do not.
(Open access) This article-based doctoral dissertation is a discussion of the relationship between fiction and theory/philosophy as well as a philosophical reading of Finland-Swedish author Monika Fagerholm’s novel "Diva. En uppväxts egna... more
Artykuł przypomina podstawowe koncepcje istotnego dla polskich badań literaturoznawczych tekstu O opisie Janusza Sławińskiego i włącza go w pole bieżącej dyskusji o konieczności zarzu- cenia lingwistycznego podejścia do literatury na... more