Reading Lacan
"Operating like characters in a narrative, Gallop's shifting reading strategies invigorate critical discourse by creating a theatre of interpretation. Reading Lacan accentuates the desire to interrogate the voices in any reading, and Gallop's stream of dialogue . . . provides a textual opportunity to discourse on Lacanian theory. . . . Rejecting the traditional endings of novels, the limited options of marriage and death, Gallop's account moves toward the plural possibilities of a feminist reading practice. . . . Gallop's navigation of 'doing reading' is a theatrical event essential for anyone invested in the process of reading as meaning-construction, but especially for feminist theorists seeking alternative structures to chart the experience of knowledge."—Susan David Bernstein, Women's Review of Books