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[section] I I am not in any sense a wise man; I cannot claim as the child of my soul any discovery worthy of the name of wisdom. But with [...]

Victoria Emma Pagan. Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature. Austin: U of Texas P, 2012. 182 pp. We live in an age of conspiracy theories: birthers, truthers, climate deniers. The believers [...]

Michael Lewis. Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008. xii + 282 pp. This book is indispensible for anyone with a serious interest in the individual works of [...]

James M. Mellard. Beyond Lacan. Albany: State U of New York P, 2006. 288 pp. Mellard's Beyond Lacan is a book that has large intellectual ambitions. It seeks to define [...]

Sean Alexander Gurd. Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2005. 188 pp. Iphigenias at Aulis is quite simply one of the most exciting books I [...]

Jean-Michel Rabate ed. The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. xxviii + 287 pp. Sartre in Search for a Method (1960) famously asserted that Marxism was the 'untranscendable [...]

Jean-Michel Rabate, ed. Lacan in America. New York: Other Press, 2000. xiii + 420 pp. The present collection makes an important contribution to our understanding of Lacan's idiosyncratic reception in [...]

A literary criticism of Joachim Du Bellay's 1558 collection of sonnets "Les Regrets" is presented. It explores the history of Du Bellay's criticism and his collection often thought of as a straightforward record of a unified subject, uncontaminated by artifice, imitation or social posturing. It formulates an alternative hermeneutic context for the poems based on the theory that "Regrets" are a self-conscious lyric collection and an imitation that allows the poet to suture the poems together.

This article examines the paradox that French feminism from the 1970s to the present constitutes itself both in reaction to and in the tradition of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Exemplary in this regard is the case of author Luce Irigaray. The presence of the Lacanian theory of the subject's sexualization in language in the literary work of Irigaray is discussed. Moreover, this article explores the destabilizing force of this parodical paradox.