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Helene Cixous: dreamer, realist, analyst, writing

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posted on 2023-06-09, 19:56 authored by Nicholas Royle
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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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Pages

256.0

Place of publication

Manchester

ISBN

9781526140661

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  • English Publications

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  • Centre for Creative and Critical Thought Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-12-16

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