Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Peggy Kamuf, USA) Kamuf, Professor Peggy (University of Southern California, Paul Ardoin, S E Gontarski, Laci Mattison

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Hélène Cixous is well-known as a reader of ‘modernist’ writers: Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Faulkner, Bachmann and others, while her own fiction writing forges many new directions in literature.Foremost readers of the work of Hélène Cixous consider new interpretations of her vast literary and theoretical work, examining its relation and non-relation to modernism. Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism features an extended new interview with Cixous, conducted for the volume, in which she reflects on her relation to the critical category of 'modernism,' alongside a previously untranslated piece by the author.As with other volumes in the series, Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism follows a three-part structure. Essays in the first section examine individual works by Cixous and the varied approaches her work has taken towards literature and art. The second section examines critical and aesthetic parameters of her writing practices. The final section contains a glossary of key terms and Cixous's neologisms recurrent throughout her work.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-08
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieUnderstanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765132036

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List of Abbreviations of Works by Hélène CixousIntroductionPeggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, USAPart I. Conceptualizing Cixous1. Bookcities and Cityscapes: Going Places with Cixous (alongside Joyce and Kafka)Laurent Milesi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China2. Scars PoeticaLaura Hughes, Independent Scholar3. The Bee and the Coffee Machine: Writing Apparatuses and Machineries in Hélène Cixous’s WorksOlivier Morel, Notre Dame University, USA4. Another Analysis: Hélène Cixous's Magical ThinkingElissa Marder, Emory University, USA5. (S)He War, or Rethinking, War-Peace, and Crime with Cixous Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal, Canada6 Hélène Cixous and PhilosophyBrigette Weltman-Aron, University of Florida, USA7. Full Flush: An Interview with Hélène CixousPeggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, USA, and Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UKPart II. Cixousian Aesthetics8. The Apparatus of Death: Kafka, Baudelaire, Poe (from Seminar of 1 June 2024)Hélène Cixous9. Countersigning ProustMairéad Hanrahan, University College London, UK10. Cixous Reading KafkaChrista Stevens, Independent Scholar11. Life-Death, Invisible Wrestlers, and Siamese TwinsMarta Segarra, University of Paris VIII, France12. Fugue on a Theme of Hélène CixousNaomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK13. Ghostvoices in Hyperdream: Homonymy, Homophony, RepetitionEsther von der Osten, Freie Universität, Germany14. "Write!": Medusa's CixousEric Prenowitz, University of Leeds, UK15. Mdeilmm: Mole Speech (excerpt)Hélène CixousPart III. Glossary16. AlgérianceChrista Stevens, Independent Scholar17. AppellationOlivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA18. CryNaomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK19. DreamOlivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA20. Libidinal EconomiesChrista Stevens, Independent Scholar21. MoleNicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK22. PlusjeChrista Stevens, Independent Scholar23. PuisseNaomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK24. The BookLaura Hughes, Independent ScholarEndnotesNotes on ContributorsIndex

An icon of French feminism, Hélène Cixous posed a major challenge to philosophy: Could it be anti-phallocentric, anti-patriarchal, and still be called philosophy? Cixous changed the terms of philosophical discourse by gendering and writing it differently, crafting an idiom of language-in-translation marked by displacements, hauntings, and scars of loss. This comprehensive volume, with itsdistinguished line-up of Cixous readers, conveys the historic importance of a major figure of modernist thought; one who stands with the great authors of literary modernism (Joyce, Kafka, Bachmann, Lispector) on whom Cixous draws for her own experimental forays in transgenre.