HéLèNe Cixous

Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvNicholas Royle

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This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Hélène Cixous (1937-), focusing on key motifs, such as dreams, the supernatural, literature, psychoanalysis, creative writing, realism, sexual differences, laughter, secrets, the ‘Mother unconscious’, drawing, painting, life writing, telephones, non-human animals, telepathy and the ‘art of cutting’. There are close readings of Shakespeare, Brontë, Shelley, Poe, Carroll, Freud, Woolf, Joyce, Beckett and Derrida, for example, alongside in-depth explorations of her own writings, from Inside (1969) and ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ (1975) up to the present. Royle’s book will be useful to students and academics coming to Cixous’s work for the first time, but it will also appeal to readers interested in contemporary literature, creative writing, life writing, narrative theory, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, feminism, queer theory, ecology, drawing and painting.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-07-28
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt548 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526140661

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1 Introduction: dreamer, realist, analyst, writing 2 Cixous cuts: through everything 3 Advertisement: the joys of literature and the return of the dead 4 Cixous cuts: take time 5 Dream in literature 6 Cixous cuts: from the axe to giving birth 7 Away 8 Cixous cuts: the veil in me 9 Portmanteau 10 Cixous cuts: Lewis Carroll 11 To awake, Shakespeare of the Night 12 Dream treatment: on sitting down to read a letter from Freud 13 Side thinking 14 All wards 15 Four words for Cixous 16 The one time Hélène Cixous entered my gardenIndex of works by Cixous General index

'Royle considers Cixous’s work in relation to that of authors that she has herself read and analyzed, in particular Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida. The author states that his study is intended to be accessible for readers with little background in feminist literary theory, deconstruction, or psychoanalysis, and he delivers on that promise. This study is an exercise in creative reading, an approach Royle defines in the introduction for those unfamiliar with it… The book is compelling and will interest readers of Cixous in any language.'Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.