Forgetting, Amnesia, Theory: An Interview with Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Published: May 1, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16522
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Jean-Michel Rabaté Apostolos Lampropoulos Forgetting Amnesia Memory
Apostolos Lampropoulos
University of Cyprus
Jean-Michel Rabaté
University of Pennsylvania
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Author Biographies
Apostolos Lampropoulos, University of Cyprus
Apostolos Lampropoulos is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Cyprus. He has also taught at the University Paris X, the University of Patras and the Free University of Berlin. He has published the monograph Le Pari de la description (L’Harmattan, 2002) as well as thetranslation in Greek of A. Compagnon’s Le Démon de la théorie (Metaichmio, 2002) and J. Culler’s On Deconstruction (Metaichmio, 2006). He has co-edited the volume States of Theory (with Antonis Balasopoulos; Metaichmio, 2010) and is currently preparing the volumes AutoBioPhagies (with May Chehab; Peter Lang), and Textual Layering (with Maria Margaroni and Christos Hadjichristos; Lexington Books - Rowman & Littlefield). His research interests include literary and cultural theory, as well as body and film studies.
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992. He has published about fifteen books on Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, psychoanalysis and literary theory. His books include The Ghosts of Modernity (University of Florida Press, 1996), James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (Cambridge UP, 2001), Jacques Lacan and Literature (Palgrave, 2001), The Future of Theory (Blackwell, 2002), Tout dire ou ne rien dire: Logiques du mensonge (Calmann- Levy, 2005), and Given: 1° Art, 2° Crime: Modernity, Murder, and Mass Culture (Sussex UP, 2006). He has edited the volumes Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), Lacan in America (The Other Press, 2000), The Cambridge Companion to Lacan (Cambridge UP, 2003), Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (with A. Levy, Palgrave, 2003), Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies (Palgrave 2004), William Anastasi’s Pataphysical Society: Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, and Cage (with A. Levy, Slought, 2005), Hélène Cixous, Ex-Cities (with A. Levy and E. Prenovitz, Slought, 2006), 1913: The cradle of modernism (Blackwell, 2007).
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