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Lois Oppenheim

Professor & Chairperson
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Publications

Education
Ph.D., New York University (USA)
M.A., New York University (USA)
B.A., New York University (USA)

Office Information
Office: Dickson Hall 125
Phone: 973-655-7423
E-mail: oppenheiml@mail.montclair.edu
Office Hours: by appt

Books:

A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis ( Routledge, 2005)
Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan 2004)
The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue with Art (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000)
Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts, and Non-Print Media, ed. (NY & London: Garland Publishing, 1999)
Beckett On and On... (co-ed. with Marius Buning; NY & London: Associated University Presses, 1996)
Improvisations on Butor: Transformation of Writing, edited/annotated/introduction (trans. Elinor S. Miller) (Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, 1996)
Directing Beckett (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1997)
Beckett in the 1990s (co-ed. with Marius Buning; Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 1993)
Three Decades of the French New Novel, ed. & co-translated with Evelyne Costa de Beauregard (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986)
Intentionality and Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenological Study of Butor's 'La Modification' (Lexington: French Forum, 1980)

Articles:

"The Uncanny in Beckett" in Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative (European Joyce Studies Annual, 2005).
"'Disturbing the Feasible': Object Representation in Samuel Beckett's Three Dialogues" in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui (2003)
"De la chair aux symboles: Discours de la douleur" in L'Art du comprendre (Paris, 2002)
"Nous me regardons: Objectivation et Dysfonctionnement Affectif Dans l'Oeuvre de Samuel Beckett" in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui (Amsterdam, 2001).
"A Preoccupation With Object Representation: The Beckett-Bion Case Revisited" in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2001)
"Penser le Poème" (with Jeffrey Barash), Intro. to Phénoménologie et Création Poétique: Autour de l'Oeuvre de JacquesGarelli (Fougères: Encre Marine, 2000).
"Le Regard Libéré: Remarques sur une Poésie Préréflexive" in Phénoménologie et Création Poétique: Autour de l'Oeuvre de Jacques Garelli (Fougères: Encre Marine, 2000).
"Three Dialogues: One Author or Two?" in Journal of Beckett Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 1999).
1998: Rpt. of Intro. to Directing Beckett, trans. Aviva Goren, in " Three Directorial Interpretations of One Play: "Waiting for Godot" (Tel Aviv: The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, 21-28).
1998: "La animacion en la obra de arte: Michel Butor L'Embarquement de la Reine de Saba," trans. Piedad Frias Nogales, in Anthropos (Spain), no. 178/179.
1997: "Vu(es) d'Amérique," in Butor aux QuatreVents, ed. Lucien Dällenbach (Paris: José Corti, 41-56).
1997: "Toward A Statistical Analysis of the Use of Color in Some Nouvaux Romans," in New Novel Review, vol. 4, no. 2, April 1997 (With Edward Lusk & Moncef Belhadjali).
1996: "Animation de l'Oeuvre d'Art: L'Embarquement dela Reine de Saba de Michel Butor," in Rémanences (France), no. 6, Avril 1996, 65-73.
1995: "Playing with Beckett's Plays: On Sontag in Sarajevo and Other Directorial Infidelities" in Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring 1995, 35-46.
1995: "Narrating Hi(s)tory: A Brief Commentary on L'Invitation" in New Novel Review, vol. 2., no. 2, Spring 1995, 19-28.
1995: "Interview avec Michel Butor" in ScènesMagazine (Geneva, Switzerland), no. 85, April issue.
1994: "Animation of the Work of Art: Michel Butor's L'Embarquement de la Reine de Saba," in MLN (Modern Language Notes), vol. 109, no.4, Fall 1994, 741-752.
1994: "Michel Butor's L'Embarquement de la Reine de Saba: An Allegorical Undoing of Aesthetic Experience," in Analecta Husserliana, vol. 42. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1994, 131-139.
1994: "French Civilization Survey" (co-author, with Prof. Scott Bryson), The French Review, March 1994.
1993: Critical essay on Michel Deguy in Contemporary World Writers (Second Edition), commissioned article, St. James Press, London.
1993: Interview with Antoni Libera (also in Directing Beckett), in Journal of Beckett Studies, Spring, 1993.
1993: Interview with Pierre Chabert (also in Directing Beckett) in Scènes Magazine (Switzerland), Feb., 1993.
1992: "Afterword" to English transl. of L'Invitation, Claude Simon. Elmwood Park, Il.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1991, 67-77. Reprinted in paperback, 1992.
1992: "'No matter how no matter where': The Unlit inSamuel Beckett's Not I and Stirrings Still," in Analecta Husserliana, vol. 38. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1992, 43-53.
1991: "L'Anesthétique de Michel Butor" in La Créationselon Michel Butor: Réseaux-Frontières-Ecart, ed. Mireille Calle-Gruber. Paris: Nizet, 1991, 247-257.
1990: "Pensée Mythique et Pensée Poétique dans l'Oeuvre de Jacques Garelli," Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 18, 1990: 97-106.
1990: Entretien avec Michel Deguy, in Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 18, 1990: 81-96.
1990: "Female Subjectivity in Not I and Rockaby," in Samuel Beckett's Portraits of Women: The Function of Gender in the Novels and Plays, ed. Linda Ben-Zvi. Urbana: The Univ. of Illinois Press, 1990, 217-227.
1990: "Michel Deguy, Jacques Garelli, Lionel Ray, Bibliographie sélective," Oeuvres et Critiques, vol. 15, no. 1, 1990: 145-147.
1990: "La Réception critique de la poésie contemporaine en France: partage de l'intime ou légitimation de l'insolite?," Oeuvres etCritiques, vol. 15, no. 1, 1990: 5-9.
1990: "Milan Kundera's Polyphonic Compositions: Appropriations or Disseminations?" in Analecta Husserliana, vol. 28. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1990, 595-604.
1989: "Clarifications, Elucidations: An Interview with Milan Kundera," The Review ofContemporary Fiction, vol. IX, no. 2, 1989: 7-11.
1989: Interview avec Robert Pinget (with Aline Baehler), France Amérique, 9-15 nov. 1989.
1989: "Anonymity and Individuation in the Nouveau Roman," in LittéRéalité, vol. 1, no. 1, 1989: 59-67.
1988: "Fritz Kaufmann's Literary Aesthetics as Definedby His Study of Thomas Mann," in AmericanPhenomenology, Analecta Husserliana,vol. 26, eds. E. F. Kaelin and C. O. Schrag. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1989, 31-42.
1988: "The Interrelation of Two Linguistic Functionsin Not I and Rockaby," in Make sense who may, ed. Lance St. John Butler & Robin Davis.London: Colin Smyth/N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, 1988. 36-45.
1988: "'Le Ciel est mort': Mallarmé and a Metaphysics of (Im)Possibility," in AnalectaHusserliana, vol. 23. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1988, 177-188.
1988: "The Ontology of Language in a Post- Structuralist Feminist Perspective: ExplosiveDiscourse in Monique Wittig," in Analecta Husserliana, vol. 23. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1988, 393-405.
1987: "Reflections on the Status of Subject in Robbe- Grillet," The Antioch Review, vol. 45, no. 3,1987: 283-285.
1987: "Vers une Evaluation Esthétique du Silence: Sa Fonction dans la Genèse et la Contingence de l'Art" in Phénoménologie et Littérature: L'Origine de l'Oeuvre d'Art,ed. Marlies Kronegger. Sherbrooke, Quebec: Editions Naaman, 1987, 98-116.
1986: "The Philosopher and the Poet: Modes ofCreation," The Denver Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Fall 1986: 160-170.
1986: "Referential and Historical Textual Constitution," in General Problems of Literary History, ed. D. Fokkema. New York: GarlandPublishing Inc., 1986, 39-44.
1985: "Situating Butor on the Horizon of Contemporary Criticism," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. 5, no. 3, Fall 1985: 140-145.
1985: "Legitimizing Fiction: La Modification and aHierarchy of Critical Dichotomies," Oeuvres et Critiques, vol. X, no. 2, 1985: 111-119.
1985: "The Oneiric Valorization of the Sea: Instances of Poetic Sensibility and the 'Non-Savoir'" in Poetics of the Elements, in AnalectaHusserliana, vol. 19. Dordrecht: ReidelPublishing Co., 1985, 213-226.
1985: "Butorian Aesthetics within the Context of a Philosophic Inquiry," Kentucky Romance Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, 1985: 23-32.
1984: Entry for Jacques Garelli in Dictionnaire desPhilosophes, ed. Denis Huisman. Paris: PressesUniversitaires de France, Vol. A-J, 1984, 1008.
1984: "The Field of Poetic Constitution," in TheExistential Coordinates of the Human Condition:Poetic, Epic, Tragic, in AnalectaHusserliana, vol. 18. Dordrecht: ReidelPublishing Co., 1984, 47-59.
1983: "An Inheritance of Poetic Referentiality," Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 1983: 329-345.
1982: "Ontological Reference and the Horizon ofMeaning," Criticism, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer1982: 261-272.
1980: "A Commentary on Phenomenological Criticism," PMLA (forum), Oct., 1980: 873-874.
1979: "Through Time to Meaning," Phenomenology Information Bulletin, vol. 3, Oct., 1979: 87-91.
1979: "Jacques Garelli's Phenomenological Aesthetics," Sub-Stance, vol. 23-24, Dec. 1979: 204-208.

Reviews:

2005 : The Midnight Disease, Alice W. Flaherty, JAPA
2004: Writing and Madness, Shoshana Felman, JAPA.
1997: Beckett Writing Beckett, H. Porter Abbott, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1997.
1995: Pallaksch, Pallaksch, Liliane Giraudon, transl. Julia Hine, in Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. XV, no. 1, Spring 1995.
1995: The Drama in the Text, Enoch Brater, in New Novel Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 1995.
1994: Eleuthéria Reading; NYC, Sept. 26, 1994, in The Beckett Circle, Fall 1994.
1994: Reductionism in Drama and the Theatre: TheCase of Samuel Beckett, Gerhard Hauck, in Theatre Research International, vol. 19, no. 3, 1994.
1994: Twentieth-Century French Poetry, Virginia A. La Charité, in Oeuvres et Critiques, vol. 19, no. 2, 1994.
1994: Europe, juin-juillet 1993, issue devoted to Samuel Beckett, in Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring 1994.
1993: Joseph Chaikin's production of SamuelBeckett's Texts for Nothing at The Public Theatre, in The Beckett Circle, Spring 1993.
1992: Marguerite Duras, The Man Sitting in the Corridor, trans. Barbara Bray, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 1992.
1992: Jean Duffy, Butor: 'La Modification', in French Forum, Sept. 1992.
1991: Joseph, H. Smith, ed., The World of Samuel Beckett, in Theatre Survey, vol. 32, no. 2, Nov. 1991.
1991: Lucien Dällenbach, The Mirror in the Text, trans. Jeremy Whiteley with Emma Hughes, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. XI, no. 2, 1991.
1990: Laurent Jenny, La Parole Singulière, inPhenomenological Inquiry, Fall 1990.
1990: Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Terminal Paradox (on Milan Kundera), in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. 10, no. 3, Fall 1990.
1990: Samuel Beckett's Footfalls, Come and Go and Words and Music, performed by the Tea Theatre, August 1990, in The Beckett Circle, Fall 1990.
1990: Enoch Brater, Why Beckett, in TheatreJournal, May 1990.
1989: Dougald McMillan & Martha Fehsenfeld, Beckettin the Theatre: The Author as Practical Playwright and Director, in French Forum, vol. 14, no. 3, 1989.
1989: Samuel Beckett's Endgame, performed by The Independent Theatre Company, Sept. 1989, in The Beckett Circle, Fall 1989.
1989: An Account of Helen Gary Bishop's "Beckett: Les Dernières Pièces," for French television, in The Beckett Circle, Fall 1989.
1989: First American reading of Samuel Beckett's Stirrings Still, by Barry McGovern, at the American Irish Historical Society, 2 Feb., 1989, in The Beckett Circle, Spring 1989.
1989: Enoch Brater, Beyond Minimalism: Beckett'sLate Style in the Theatre, in Theatre Journal, March 1989.
1987: Joseph S. Catalano, A Commentary on Jean-PaulSartre's "Critique of Dialectical Reason," in Phenomenological Inquiry, vol. XI, Oct. 1987.
1987: Mary Jean Green, Fiction in the Historical Present: French Writers and the Thirties, in French Forum, May 1987.
1983: Meena Alexander, The Poetic Self: Toward aPhenomenology of Romanticism, in Phenomenology Information Bulletin, Oct. 1983.
1982: Mary Lydon, Perpetuum Mobile, in French Forum, Jan, 1982.
1982: Jacques Garelli, Artaud et la Question du Lieu, in Phenomenology Information Bulletin, Oct. 1982.
1980: Leonard Orr, Existentialism and Phenomenology, in The French Review, Feb. 1980.
1979: Jacques Garelli, Le Recel et la Dispersion, in Phenomenology Information Bulletin, Oct., 1979.

Translations:

1993: Interview with Pierre Chabert (with Jim Cross) in Directing Beckett (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994).
1989: "On Criticism, Aesthetics, and Europe," Milan Kundera, edited and translated from the French, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, ed. Lois Oppenheim, Summer 1989. Above translation reprinted in Harper's Magazine, Jan. 1990.
1989: "On Kundera," Italo Calvino (with Nicola Masciangelo) in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, ed. Lois Oppenheim, Summer 1989.
1986: Essays by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Nathalie Sarraute, François Jost, Michel Rybalka, Monique Wittig and Ralph Sarkonak, in Three Decades of the French New Novel, (transl. with Evelyne Costa de Beauregard) (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1986).
1984: "The Act of Writing as an Apprehension of the Enigma of Being-in-the World," Jacques Garelli, paper delivered at the International Society for Phenomenology and Literature, April 1980, and published in Analecta Husserliana, vol. 18. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1984.
1983: "Ontology and Madness," Jacques Garelli, in Sub-Stance, no. 39, Spring 1983.
1983: "The Poem as Ontology of Reference," Jacques Garelli, in The Favorite Malice, ed. Thomas J. Harrison (N.Y.: Out of London Press, 1983). Above translation excerpted in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, no. 12, June 1980.
1981: La Gravitation poétique, Jacques Garelli, concluding chapter published as "Temporality, Imagery and Unity," in New Literary History, vol. XII, Spring 1981.
1980: "Prospection," Jacques Garelli, in Gizeh 1: The Invisible Philosophy (N.Y.: Out of London Press, 1980).
1980: "Under the Fall of Lamps," Jacques Garelli, in Gizeh 1: The Invisible Philosophy (N.Y.: Out of London Press. 1980).

Filmstrips:

"The Age of Enlightenment" Princeton Series in the Humanities, 1978
"The Crisis of Conscience" Princeton Series in the Humanities, 1978

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