Royle, Nicholas (2020) Helene Cixous: dreamer, realist, analyst, writing. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526140661

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Schools and Departments:	School of English > English
Research Centres and Groups:	Centre for Creative and Critical Thought
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Depositing User:	Laura Vellacott
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2019 11:01
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2020 13:02
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/88762

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