The Body and the text : Hélène Cixous--reading and teaching / edited by Helen Wilcox ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilcox, Helen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cixous, Hélène, 1937-.

Women in literature.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--Women authors.

Cixous, Hélène, 1937---Criticism and interpretation.

Cixous, Hélène.

Feminist literary criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

American literature--Women authors.

Physical Description:

vii, 222 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Summary:

This major collection of essays from British, French and American critics begins with a challenging new paper by Cixous herself and proceeds to consider a wide range of thought-provoking topics, from feminist aesthetics and 'Etudes Feminines' through detailed readings of French and English texts from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, to the impact of Cixous' theory on teaching practice. The book offers insights into issues of motherhood, mourning, death and literature, violence and poetry as well as exploring the radical implications, for the individual and for the academy, of Cixous' increasingly politicised sense of art as an affirmation of life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312057687

0312057695

OCLC:

23213011