Françoise Meltzer

Françoise Meltzer (born 1947) is a professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School.[1] She is the Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.

## Contents

* 1 Work
* 2 Education
* 3 Bibliography
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Work

Meltzer's scholarship includes work on contemporary critical theory and nineteenth-century French literature. She marshals postmodern critical theories in order to explore literary representations of the subject.

In her book Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality, she examines the ideas of originality and authorship in a series of case studies from Descartes to Walter Benjamin. In her book on Joan of Arc, she undertakes a study of that figure in relation to subjectivity as it is treated in philosophical and literary theoretical courses.

Meltzer co-edited a Symposium on [God] for the journal Critical Inquiry. With Jas' Elsner, Meltzer co-edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on theories of saints and sainthood in three monotheistic religions. She is co-editing a book on religion and postmodernist texts, and also working on two monographs; one about 1848 in France, and the concept of rupture from a philosophical, political, and literary point of view; the other about the gendering of subjectivity.

## Education

* Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1975
* M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1971[2]
* B.A. Ohio University, 1969

## Bibliography

* (1987) Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Diegesis in Literature
* (1988) The Trial(s) of Psychoanalysis, sed.
* (1994) Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality
* (2001) For Fear, Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity
* (2011) Double Vision: Baudelaire's Modernity

## See also

* Deconstruction
* List of deconstructionists

## References

1. ↑ Maler, Sandra (October 28, 2004). "'French' becomes a dirty word in US campaign". Daily Times. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-10-2004_pg4_7. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
2. ↑ "Françoise Meltzer | The University of Chicago Divinity School". https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/francoise-meltzer.

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