Armine Kotin Mortimer
Office: 2090H FLB
Phone: 333-7813
Email: armine@illinois.edu
Armine Kotin Mortimer is Professor of French Literature and of Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her teaching and research are in the areas of narrative literature, especially of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; she has a significant body of work on Balzac and on Barthes, and is currently working on Sollers' novels.
Mortimer is the author of five books, including La clôture narrative; The Gentlest Law: Roland Barthes's The Pleasure of the Text; and Plotting to Kill. Johns Hopkins University Press published Writing Realism: Representations in French Literature, in November 2000. She has published many articles in journals such as Narrative, Romanic Review, Modern Language Review, French Forum, L'Esprit Créateur, Poétique, Genesis, Dalhousie French Studies, MLN, Genre, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and Les Temps Modernes.
Publications include:
Books ( *published under the name Kotin )
Writing Realism: Representations in French Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press. November 2000.
Plotting to Kill. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. xvi + 220 pp.
La Clôture narrative. Paris: Corti, 1985. 246 pp.
Armine Kotin Mortimer and Katherine Kolb. Proust in Perspective. Visions and Revisions. University of Illinois Press, 2002.
The Gentlest Law: Roland Barthes's The Pleasure of the Text. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. xiv + 254 pp.
*The Narrative Imagination: Comic Tales by Philippe de Vigneulles. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1977. 152 pp.
Edited Journal
"Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice." Special issue of Style, 29:3, Fall 1995, co-editor with James M. Mellard.
Book Chapters
"Paradise on TV: Philippe Sollers's Video Art." The Visual-Narrative Matrix: Interdisciplinary Collisions and Collusions. Ed. Graham Coulter-Smith. Southampton: Fine Art Research Centre, Southampton Institute. Forthcoming 2000.
"Secrets of Literature, Resistance to Meaning." Confrontations: Politics and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. Kathryn Grossman. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Forthcoming 2000.
"L'écriture crue: Femmes de Sollers." Le topos du manuscrit trouvé. Ed. Jan Herman and Fernand Hallyn. Leuven and Paris: Editions Peeters, 1999. 475-82.
"La sexualité dans La Religieuse: Dialogues de sourds." Sexualité, mariage et famille au XVIIIe siècle. Ed. Olga B. Cragg. Laval: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1998. 125-33.
"Balzac: Tenebrous Affairs and Necessary Explications." The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France. Ed. John T. Booker and Allan H. Pasco. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. 241-55.
Articles in Refereed Journals
"Philippe Sollers, Secret Agent." Journal of Modern Literature 23 (1999-2000): 309-27.
"Loving Writing Fragments d'un discours amoureux." Symposium 54 (2000): 27-42.
"Myth and Mendacity: Balzac's Pierrette and Beatrice Cenci." Dalhousie French Studies 51 (summer 2000): 12-25.
"Romantic Fever: The Second Story as Illegitimate Daughter in Wharton's 'Roman Fever'" Narrative 6 (1998): 188-98.
"Balzac's Ursule Mirouët: Genealogy and Inheritance." The Modern Language Review 92 (1997): 851-63.