Further Reading
- 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.
- Boldt-Irons, Leslie Anne, 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
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