Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | Bataille, Georges - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Boldt-Irons, Leslie Anne. “The Fall from and into Grace: Camus and Bataille on Happiness and Guilt.” Nottingham French Studies 36, no. 2 (autumn 1997): 45-56.

Finds that, despite their many philosophical similarities, Bataille and Camus differ fundamentally with respect to their attitudes on happiness and guilt.

———. On Bataille: Critical Essays, translated by Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, 338 p.

Collection of essays on various aspects of Bataille's work by critics including Julia Kristeva and Susan Rubin Suleiman.

Dragon, Jean. “The Work of Alterity: Bataille and Lacan.” Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism 26, no. 2 (summer 1996): 31-48.

Addresses questions of sexual identity in the works of Bataille and Jacques Lacan.

Johnson, Kendall. “Haunting Transcendence: The Strategy of...

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