Hélène Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526160454)

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.

Author: Nicholas Royle
ISBN-10: 1526160455
ISBN-13: 9781526160454
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d