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 Ghosts in Bataille and Breton.” Twentieth Century Literature 45, no. 3 (fall 1999): 347-70.

Examines the political symbolism of ghosts in Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil and André Breton's Nadja.

Robberds, Mark. “Visions of Excess: Pynchon and Bataille.” Pynchon Notes, no. 40-1 (spring-fall 1997): 17-27.

Discusses the similarities between Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil and Thomas Pynchon's novel V.

Stoekl, Allan. “Bataille, Gift Giving, and the Cold War.” In The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity, edited by Alan D. Schrift, pp. 245-55. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Examines the implications of Bataille's notion of general economy both in the Cold War period and in the post-Cold War years.

Wright, Terry R. “Lawrence and Bataille: Recovering the Sacred, Re-membering Jesus.” Literature and Theology 13, no. 1 (March 1999): 46-75.

Examines the fully human figure of Jesus in Bataille's The Escaped Cock and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Additional coverage of Bataille's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 89-92, 101; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 29; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; and Literature Resource Center.