Jacqueline Rose is a British academic recognized for her groundbreaking work exploring the intersections of psychoanalysis, feminism, and literature. Her critical lens often re-examines canonical works, offering postmodern feminist interpretations that challenge established readings. Rose's scholarship delves into the complex relationship between authors, their creations, and the critical reception they receive. She is known for her incisive analyses that uncover hidden power dynamics and reveal new dimensions within literary texts.
Jacqueline Rose explores a communal neurosis affecting Israeli society, offering a thought-provoking analysis that addresses significant contemporary issues. Her examination delves into the psychological and cultural dynamics at play, making it a relevant and critical read for understanding the complexities of Israeli identity and experience.
Jacqueline Rose has written what can only be called a masterpiece of scholarship and thought. The Last Resistance , exploring the role of literature in the Zionist imagination and Jewish memory, is a work of stunning insight and moral courage. Destined to become a standard in the field, it will have a profound and lasting impact.-Sara Roy, Harvard University In The Last Resistance , Jacqueline Rose uses her knowledge of literature, psychoanalysis, and politics to brilliantly illuminating effect. The volume will greatly enhance Professor Rose's reputation as a literary critic and public intellectual. Stimulating and thought-provoking, it deserves to be read widely.-Avi Shlaim, University of Oxford The miracle of Jacqueline Rose is that she combines textual criticism with concrete political struggles in a brilliant way. In this book, a breathtakingly refined textual analysis sustains a passionate, ethical and political engagement in the ongoing Near East crisis. This alone makes her a model of what a public intellectual should be.-Slavoj Zizek
A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
Offers an interpretation of Sylvia Plath's writing, claiming that previous interpretations - both feminist and psychoanalytic - have been too polarized.
In these powerful essays Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep us awake at night, into issues of privacy and publishing, exposure and shame. Offering new links between feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and politics, On Not Being Able to Sleep provides a resonant and thought provoking collection for the present day.
Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice.
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.
A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.
Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's Hook, to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the English House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of our times.
The book delves into the impact of Reformation-era tensions on the dynamics between the monarchy, Parliament, and legal systems during the Restoration period. It examines how these historical conflicts shaped governance and authority, offering a unique perspective on the interplay of religion and politics in shaping modern British institutions.