Jacqueline Rose est une universitaire britannique reconnue pour ses travaux novateurs explorant les intersections de la psychanalyse, du féminisme et de la littérature. Sa perspective critique réexamine souvent des œuvres canoniques, offrant des interprétations féministes postmodernes qui remettent en question les lectures établies. Les recherches de Rose approfondissent la relation complexe entre les autrices, leurs créations et la réception critique qu'elles reçoivent. Elle est connue pour ses analyses pointues qui dévoilent des dynamiques de pouvoir cachées et révèlent de nouvelles dimensions au sein des textes littéraires.
Jacqueline Rose explores a communal neurosis affecting Israeli society, offering a thought-provoking analysis that addresses significant contemporary issues. Her examination delves into the psychological and cultural dynamics at play, making it a relevant and critical read for understanding the complexities of Israeli identity and experience.
Jacqueline Rose has written what can only be called a masterpiece of
scholarship and thought. The Last Resistance , exploring the role of
literature in the Zionist imagination and Jewish memory, is a work of stunning
insight and moral courage. Destined to become a standard in the field, it will
have a profound and lasting impact.-Sara Roy, Harvard University In The Last
Resistance , Jacqueline Rose uses her knowledge of literature, psychoanalysis,
and politics to brilliantly illuminating effect. The volume will greatly
enhance Professor Rose's reputation as a literary critic and public
intellectual. Stimulating and thought-provoking, it deserves to be read
widely.-Avi Shlaim, University of Oxford The miracle of Jacqueline Rose is
that she combines textual criticism with concrete political struggles in a
brilliant way. In this book, a breathtakingly refined textual analysis
sustains a passionate, ethical and political engagement in the ongoing Near
East crisis. This alone makes her a model of what a public intellectual should
be.-Slavoj Zizek
Offers an interpretation of Sylvia Plath's writing, claiming that previous
interpretations - both feminist and psychoanalytic - have been too polarized.
In these powerful essays Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep
us awake at night, into issues of privacy and publishing, exposure and shame.
Offering new links between feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and politics,
On Not Being Able to Sleep provides a resonant and thought provoking
collection for the present day.
Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's
'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and
thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers
delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice.
A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death
might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of
our leading thinkers.
Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.
The book delves into the impact of Reformation-era tensions on the dynamics between the monarchy, Parliament, and legal systems during the Restoration period. It examines how these historical conflicts shaped governance and authority, offering a unique perspective on the interplay of religion and politics in shaping modern British institutions.