Mária Minich Brewer
|
Department of French and Italian |
Statement of Interests
My research and teaching interests are in modern literature, theater, and critical thought. I have published on the cultural legacies of narrative, feminist theory and narrative, fiction and historical reference, performance and theatricality, and writing and the incommensurable. My current book project is on the crises of common ground confronting literary studies and pervading debates on the aesthetic, ethical, political, social, economic, and historical dimensions of modernity. This project identifies the need to rearticulate literary, artistic, and conceptual practices in terms of thinking through incommensurability, thus foregrounding and theorizing alternative ways of linking in the social bond. A concurrent project treats the symbolic place of childhood in modernity. Recently, I have taught seminars on narrative and cultural memory, theater and modernity, experimental writing and literature out of bounds, and sites of childhood in modernity. I am Editor of L'Esprit Créateur (with Daniel Brewer).
Selected Publications
Book
Claude Simon: Narrativities Without Narrative (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995).
Edited Issue
Guest Editor, "Claude Simon," L'Esprit Créateur (Winter 1987).
Articles
"A Loosening of Tongues: From Narrative Economy to Women Writing," MLN, 99:5 (1984): 114-61.
"Performing Theory," Theater Journal, 37:1 (1985): 12-30. Reprinted in Ruby Cohen, ed., Beckett: Waiting for Godot Casebook (Macmillan, 1987).
"Surviving Fictions: Gender and Difference in Postmodern and Postnuclear Narrative," Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 9 (1987): 37-52.
"Samuel Beckett: Postmodern Narrative and the Nuclear telos," Boundary 2, 15:1-2 (1986-87): 153-70.
"Parodies, répliques, écritures," Revue des Sciences Humaines, 220 (1990): 157-71. "Histoires complémentaires: quêtes symboliques et syntaxes reinventées," Revue des Sciences Humaines, 220 (1990), 180-183.
"(Ré)inventions référentielles et culturelles chez Claude Simon: les images les instants les voix les fragments du temps du monde," Revue des Lettres Modernes (1994): 13-40."
(In)Commensurabilities: The Childhood Events and the Shock of Encounter in Claude Simon," Claude Simon: A Retrospective, Ed. Alastair B. Duncan and Jean H. Duffy. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001. 20pp.
"Pour un devenir-archives dans l'œuvre de Claude Simon," Revue des Lettres Modernes: Claude Simon 4: (Dé)gout de l'archive. In press.
"Samuel Beckett et l'incommensurable: vitesse, honte et compagnie," in Lire, écrire la honte, ed. Bruno Chaouat. Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle. Presses Universitaires de Lyon. In press.