Publication

2020 - Manchester University Press

Language

English

Word Count

59,000 words, Guess

Page Count

236 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781526140685
  • ISBN-101526140683
  • OCLC Control Number1130769041
  • Better World Books9781526140685
  • Open LibraryOL34726873M

Classifications

  • LCCPQ2663.I9 Z78 2020

Description

This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Helene 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, Bronte, 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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Hélène CixousManchester University Press2020

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