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Article on KnausgÃ¥rd’s Min kamp in Morgenbladet

December 16, 2011 No Comments

My article on Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd’s Min kamp has just appeared in Morgenbladet (in Norwegian).Â Â The full reference is: Toril Moi, “Skam og Ã¥penhet,” Morgenbladet, 16 December 2011, pp. 44-45. The article will be available online in four weeks. But this link should take you to the full issue (the link doesn’t work on iPads). Just go to pp. 44-45 to read the article. If that doesn’t work, here is a pdf file with the text:Â Moi Skam og Ã¥penhet.

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Review of Anne B. Ragde’s latest novel (in Norwegian)

September 11, 2011 No Comments

On my Norwegian pages, I have now put up a link to my brand new review of Anne B. Ragde’s new novel Jeg skal gjÃ¸re deg sÃ¥ lykkelig (I’ll make you so happy), published in Morgenbladet on September 9, 2011. The review is written in Norwegian.

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Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, and Professor of English, and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke.

In spring 2009, she was a Fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

Toril Moi grew up in the countryside in the south-west of Norway, and was educated at the University of Bergen. From 1979 to 1989 she lived mostly in Oxford, UK, and since 1989 she has been a resident of North Carolina.

As an academic, she writes on feminism, literary theory, ordinary language philosophy and literature. Her first book, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985) has been translated into fifteen languages. Her 1994 book Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman has been translated into five languages, and a new 2nd edition was published in 2008. Her book Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism won the MLA's award for best book in comparative literary studies for 2007. Her most recent book on feminist theory is Sex, Gender and the Body: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman (2005).

In Norway, Toril Moi also writes widely for newspapers and magazines.