Abstract

Identifying with a series of French literary theorists, she adopts their manner rather than their putative "method" as she responds to selected French artists and writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The result is a suite of readings that show what has come to be known as "French theory" in operation: readings that are a la Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, Foucault - "after" them in the sense that a drawing might be described as "after Leonardo" - rather than a rehearsal of their thought.