Toril Moi

Literature prof. Duke, researcher Norwegian National Library, writer Morgenbladet. Find me on @torilmoi.bsky.social

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

The novel is a tool for cultivating empathy. Fictional narratives provide a vicarious outlet for emotion, which allows you to be more coldhearted and ruthless in your day to day life

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

witty!

[Arildo🇳🇴 @Arildo21]

Norge, i følge Oslo 😂

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

Jeg skal også holde et foredrag om Beauvoir på Nasjonalbiblioteket klokken 18 torsdag 7. mai. Det er gratis adgang og åpent for alle. Jeg hører at det for tiden er fullt, men jeg tror de kommer til å strømme seansen. https://t.co/u8qg8juSkh

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

Jeg skal være med på fagseminar om Simone de Beauvoir på Nasjonalbiblioteket i Oslo tirsdag 5. mai. Strålende deltakerliste! Jeg skal holde innledningsforedrag om Beauvoirs syn på valg, frihet og ansvar. https://t.co/hrjjHDCuoX

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

@helendewitt Dear Helen, How WONDERFUL! You so deserve this. I hope it gives you peace of mind, and a space to let your creativity flourish in the only way it can -- freely.

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@aslaknore Pas mal, cher Aslak!

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

@John_Attridge i discuss the idealist aesthetics of the early Nobel prizes over a few pages in my book henrik ibsen and the birth of modernism. the underlying idea is that lit should uplift us beyond the sordid materiality of the world. so no prize for Ibsen.

[so it goes @TsimasN]

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Samuel Beckett, Endgame

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

@profdgd In the 19th century: Strindberg's The Father -- a man spiraling into madness because he has come to doubt that his child is actually his. (Response to Ibsen's Wild Duck) Also about infernal power struggle between men and women (as seen by the antifeminist Strindberg...)

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@theiaincameron go to holden - Wittgenstein did! you can then go and see the (reconstructed) cabin he built there.

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

@Kierkegaarddd Different books at different ages (ages are just approximations):
at 15: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.
at 25: Julia Kristeva, Révolution du langage poétique
at 35: Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction
at 45: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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@gregorymconway it’s completely compelling, absorbing — a deep reflection on history - the account of the clash between Kristin and her father’s bourgeois values as against erlend’s feudal ones), a novel of love and marriage, of faith, and death - complete existential - and unmodernist too.

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@DmpPatterson actually, my current long-term research topic is precisely the question of the new. And I am one (of many) speakers. So now i also have to try to tell myself something new...

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Register for the Jameson conference at Duke April 10-12! "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory." Click here for the registration form: https://t.co/WV7YHGTN2q

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

witty and true to life

[Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 @joakial_]

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council: "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator"

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@DmpPatterson oh. well it depends on what the speakers actually say, i think

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@DmpPatterson not sure what that means? - but the new always emerges from the old

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

@SimlaDogangun there’s an email address in the link - write to the organizers to ask?

[Toril Moi @TorilMoi]

@oznurkarakas there’s an email address in the link - write to the organizers and ask?