HeLeNe Cixous by Nicholas Royle
A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers close readings of many of her works, from Inside (1969) to the present. He foregrounds Cixous's importance for 'English literature' as well as creative writing, autobiography, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, ecology, gender studies and queer theory. -- .'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 DerridaThe 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.'
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'This book offers a source of delectation and insight to readers of Hélène Cixous’s writing. It is delightful in numerous respects. Charmingly ludic, it veers playfully — in a manner theorized by its author a decade earlier as characteristic of literature itself — not only between Cixous’s texts and between her texts and those of a host of other writers as disparate as Shakespeare, Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, and Agatha Christie, but, in addition, between the four words of the subtitle: dreamer, realist, analyst, writing.'
French Studies
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526160454 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526160455 |
| Title | HeLeNe Cixous |
| Author | Nicholas Royle |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2021-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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