Leslie Hill
Encyclopedia
Leslie Hill is professor of French at the University of Warwick
. He has written several influential books on French writers and philosophers including Samuel Beckett
, Marguerite Duras
, Maurice Blanchot
, Georges Bataille
, Pierre Klossowski
and Jacques Derrida
. Hill was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy
in 2003.
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
. He has written several influential books on French writers and philosophers including Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
, Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.-Background:...
, Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.-Works:...
, Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille was a French writer. His multifaceted work is linked to the domains of literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art...
, Pierre Klossowski
Pierre Klossowski
Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus.-Life:...
and Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
. Hill was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
in 2003.
Book publications
- Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism (Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary (London, Routledge, 1997)
- Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires (London, Routledge, 1993)
- Beckett's Fiction: In Different Words (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990)