Helene Cixous : critical impressions / edited by Lee A. Jacobus and Regina Barreca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobus, Lee A.

Barreca, Regina.

Series:

Lit book series ; v. 1.

Lit book series ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Cixous, Hélène.

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Gordon and Breach, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adapted from a special issue of "Literature Interpretation Theory", this book explores one of the most significant voices in contemporary literature, approaching Cixous from the perspectives of feminist theory, materialist criticism, biographical criticism and reader-response methodologies.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction to the Series; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Life Makes Text from My Body; 2 Le Père de l'écriture; 3 The Medusa's Slip; 4 Hélène Cixous; 5 Reading and Writing the Other; 6 Cixous' Concept of "Brushing" as a Gift; 7 The Gift: Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida; 8 Hélène Cixous Names Woman, Mother, Other; 9 Cixous, Spivak, and Oppositional Theory; 10 Hélène Cixous: A Space Between; 11 Hélène Cixous and the Need of Portraying; 12 Ariane Mnouchkine/Hélène Cixous; The Self and The "Other(s)" in Cixous'; 14 Bringing a Historical Character on Stage

15 Men More Than Men16 The Critic as Playwright: Performing Hélène; About the Contributors; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-325) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-30025-9

1-280-14165-4

0-203-99033-1

OCLC:

475942899