Celine Surprenant
Senior Lecturer In French (Centre for Literature and Philosophy)

Selected publications

Article

Surprenant, Céline (2016) 'Point trop n'en faut' [Review] Olivier Rey (2014) Une question de taille. La Vie des Idées. ISSN 2105-3030

Surprenant, Céline (2016) 'Good to think with'[Review] Ann Jefferson (2015) Genius in France: an idea and its use. TLS : Times Literary Supplement (5889). pp. 12-13. ISSN 0307-661X

Surprenant, Céline (2015) [Review] Keiichi Tsumori (2014) Proust et le paysage: des écrits de jeunesse à la ‘Recherche du temps perdu’. French Studies, 69 (3). p. 409. ISSN 1473-3536

Compagnon, Antoine and Surprenant, Céline (2014) Le Collège de France : 1973, 1993, 2013. Retour sur les documentaires de Marcel Bluwal. Collège de France. La Lettre (38). pp. 22-23. ISSN 1628-2329

Surprenant, Céline (2014) [Review] Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2011) The weather in Proust. French Studies, 68 (2). pp. 262-263. ISSN 1473-3536

Surprenant, Celine (2013) [Review] Alain de Mijolla (2010) Freud et la France 1885-1945. Psychoanalysis and History, 15 (1). pp. 110-116. ISSN 1460-8235

Surprenant, Celine (2011) "Counting is a bad procedure": calculation and economy in Jacques Derrida's Donner le temps. Derrida Today, 4 (1). pp. 21-43. ISSN 1745-8500

Surprenant, Celine (2010) [Review] Jean-Louis Chrétien (2009) Conscience et roman I. La conscience au grand jour. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 41 (3). pp. 332-334. ISSN 0007-1773

Surprenant, Celine (2008) [Review] Nicholas Dames (2007) The physiology of the novel: reading, neural science, and the form of Victorian fiction. Textual Practice, 22 (4). pp. 794-802. ISSN 0950-236X

Albrecht, Thomas and Surprenant, Celine (2008) Narrative. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 16 (1). pp. 91-131. ISSN 1077-4254

Hadfield, Andrew, Boxall, Peter, Smith, Lindsay and Surprenant, Celine (2008) Preface: The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 16 (1). ISSN 1077-4254

Surprenant, Celine (2007) An occult arithmetic: the 'Proustian equation' according to Beckett's 'Proust'. The Journal of Romance Studies, 7 (3). pp. 47-58. ISSN 1473-3536

Surprenant, Celine (2007) Idols and ironies [Reviews] Anthony R. Pugh (2004) The growth of À la recherche du temps perdu: a chronological examination of Proust's manuscripts from 1909 to 1914. Sophie Duval (2004) L'ironie proustienne: la vision stéréoscopique. Nathalie Mauriac Dyer (2005) Proust inachevé: le dossier "Albertine disparue". Stéphane Chaudier (2004) Proust et le langage religieux: la cathédrale profane. TLS : Times Literary Supplement (5459). pp. 26-27. ISSN 0307-661X

Surprenant, Celine (2007) Occidentaux de 1963. Oxford Literary Review, 27 (1). pp. 17-34. ISSN 0305-1498

Surprenant, Celine (2007) A single language: Freud and translation. International Journal of Translation, 19 (2). pp. 87-102. ISSN 0940-9819

Surprenant, Celine (2007) A certain silence. Oxford Literary Review, 27. pp. 7-16. ISSN 0305-1498

Albrecht, Thomas and Surprenant, Celine (2007) Narrative. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 15 (1). pp. 79-110. ISSN 1077-4254

Boxall, Peter, Hadfield, Andrew, Smith, Lindsay and Surprenant, Celine (2007) Preface. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 15 (1). xi. ISSN 1077-4254

Surprenant, Celine (2006) 'Against the new' [Review] Antoine Compagnon (2005) Les Antimodernes: de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes. TLS : Times Literary Supplement (5391). p. 12. ISSN 0307-661X

Albrecht, Thomas and Surprenant, Celine (2006) Narrative. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 14 (1). pp. 89-116. ISSN 1077-4254

Surprenant, Celine (2005) Couldn't write [Review] Gilles Philippe (2004) Flaubert savait-il écrire?: une querelle grammaticale (1919-1921). TLS : Times Literary Supplement (5327). p. 22. ISSN 0307-661X

Surprenant, Celine (2004) 'Quis, quid, ubi ... quomodo, quando?' Proust's 'La Confession d'une jeune fille’ (1894). Oxford Literary Review, 26 (1). pp. 117-137. ISSN 0305-1498

Surprenant, Celine (2003) 'A blatant interrogative' in Marcel Proust's 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu'. French Studies, 57 (2). pp. 195-208. ISSN 0016-1128

Surprenant, Celine (1998) In spite of appearances. Fragmente: Psychoanalysis and Poetics, 8. pp. 39-53.

Surprenant, Celine (1997) [Review] Jacques Derrida (1996) Résistances de la psychanalyse. PLI: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 6. 123 - 132.

Book

Surprenant, Céline and Demerliac, Jean (2015) Anthologies singulières à l'usage des lecteurs d'aujourd'hui. Hachette BNF, Paris, p. 27. ISBN 9782346020003

Surprenant, Celine (2008) Freud: a guide for the perplexed. Guides for the perplexed . Continuum. ISBN 9780826492777

Surprenant, Céline (2002) Freud's mass psychology: questions of scale. Renewing Philosophy . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333997420

Surprenant, Celine (2001) Translation: The speculative remark: one of Hegel’s bons mots, by Jean-Luc Nancy. Stanford University Press, ix-xviii. ISBN 9780804737142

Book Section

Surprenant, Céline (2016) Les sciences du cerveau au Collège de France. In: Morange, Michel, Wolff, Francis and Worms, Frédéric (eds.) L'homme neuronal, trente ans après : Dialogue avec Jean-Pierre Changeux. Les Rencontres de Normale sup' . Editions Rue d'Ulm, Paris, pp. 103-120. ISBN 9782728805464

Surprenant, Céline (2015) Neurosciences: The obverse side of Jacques Derrida's 'Freud and the scene of writing'. In: Morgan-Wortham, Simon and Alfano, Chiara (eds.) Desire in ashes : deconstruction, psychoanalysis, philosophy. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 121-137. ISBN 9781472529138

Surprenant, Celine (2014) Beckett's Proust, Schopenhauer, and the musical art of pastiche. In: Bailes, Sara and Till, Nicholas (eds.) Beckett and musicality. Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, UK, pp. 27-45. ISBN 9781472409638

Surprenant, Celine (2014) Darwin and Proust. In: Glick, Thomas F and Shaffer, Elinor (eds.) The literary and cultural reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 431-437. ISBN 9781780937465

Surprenant, Celine (2013) Ernest Renan, administrateur du Collège de France. In: Laurens, Henry (ed.) Ernest Renan: la science, la religion, la République ; colloque annuel 2012. Odile Jacob, Paris. ISBN 9782738130280

Surprenant, Celine (2013) Pathology and moral courage in Freud's early case histories. In: Müller-Funk, Wolfgang, Scholz-Strasser, Ingrid and Westerink, Herman (eds.) Psychoanalysis, monotheism and morality: symposia of the Sigmund Freud Museum 2009 - 2011. Figures of the unconscious . Leuven University Press, Louvain, Belgium, pp. 155-172. ISBN 9789058679352

Surprenant, Celine (2013) Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. In: Watt, Adam (ed.) Marcel Proust in context. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 107-114. ISBN 9781107021891

Surprenant, Celine (2009) Theory, composition and notes in Le temps retrouvé. In: Watt, Adam (ed.) Le temps retrouvé: eighty years after/80 ans après: critical essays/essais critiques. Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, pp. 229-223. ISBN 9783039118434

Surprenant, Celine (2006) Freud and psychoanalysis. In: Waugh, Patricia (ed.) Literary theory and criticism: an Oxford guide. Oxford University Press, pp. 199-211. ISBN 9780199291335

Surprenant, Celine (2002) Qu'aurait pensé Nietzche de Proust? In: Surya, M and Nancy, J L (eds.) Lignes nouvelle série 07: un autre nietzsche. Léo Scheer, pp. 298-307. ISBN 9782914172349

Surprenant, Celine (1997) "La chose de tout le monde": 'Langue' and 'masse parlante' in Saussure's 'Cours de linguistique générale'. In: Simms, Karl (ed.) Language and the Subject. Critical Studies . Rodopi, pp. 27-43. ISBN 9789042000155

Conference or Workshop Item

Surprenant, Celine (1995) Violence muette? Notes sur la mimesis chez René Girard. In: Le Double, Saint-Fons, France.