Cixous's semi-fictions : thinking at the borders of fiction / Mairéad Hanrahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanrahan, Mairéad.

Series:

Frontiers of theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Cixous, Hélène.

Cixous, Hélène, 1937-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Explores the links between the fictional and the theoretical in Héléne Cixous's writing, Héléne Cixous,one of France's most prolific authors, was deemed Jacques Derrida in 1990 to be the greatest living writer in French. She also been described, by Peggy Kamuf, as 'one of our age's greatest semi-theoreticians'. Connecting these two views, this book argues for a consideration of her texts as 'semi-fictions'. Telling stories is, irreducibly, part of what Cixous does. Fiction is at once the creation of an Imaginary world and an ethical engagement, as intellectual as it passionate, with the difficulties of the real. This book offers an in-depth reading of five different texts, addressing the idiomatic specificity of individual works and investigating how the textual fabric unfolds. It shows that the narrative dimension to Cixous's writing needs to be reckoned with as a key component of the way it troubles the borders between fiction and its others. Each work is approached in relation to a particular theoretical question or discourse to explore how, in staging an encounter with something beyond itself, her fiction is the site of an active thinking. Book jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748642285

9780748642281

OCLC:

890950218