Stigmata : escaping texts / Helene Cixous.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cixous, Hélène, 1937-

Standardized Title:

Essays. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stigmatization.

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hèléne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time.Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso -- works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences. Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poeti

Contents:

Bathsheba or the interior Bible

Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather The executioner's taking off

In October 1991 ...

Hiss of the axe

What is a clock? or The door (we never enter)

Love of the wolf

'Mamae, disse ele,' or Joyce's second hand

Unmasked!

Writing blind : conversation with the donkey

My Algeriance, in other words : to depart not to arrive from Algeria

Shared at dawn

Stigmata, or Job the dog.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-198) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-68099-6

0-203-22062-5

1-280-18273-3

9786610182732

1-134-68100-3

9780203220627

OCLC:

277619169