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Readings : the poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva / Helene Cixous ; edited, translated, and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cixous, Hélène, 1937-
- Series:
- Theory and history of literature ; v. 77.
- Theory and history of literature ; v. 77
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative literature.
- Philology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 156 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A leader in the feminist intellectual movement, Cixous presents this highly informative meditation on ethics and poetics which draws on philosophy and psychoanalysis.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Writing and the Law: Blanchot, Joyce, Kafks, and Lispector; 2. Grace and Innocence: Heinrich von Kleist; 3. Apprenticeship and Alienation: Clarice Lispector and Maurice Blanchot; 4. Poetry, Passion, and History: Marina Tsvetayeva; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8376-X
- OCLC:
- 191932308
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