Hélène Cixous: dreamer, realist, analyst, writing / Nicholas Royle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Royle, Nicholas, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Manchester University Press, provider, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Cixous, Hélène.

Cixous, Hélène, 1937-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s)

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This book provides a lucid, wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Hélène Cixous (1937-). Cixous is often considered 'difficult'. Moreover she is extraordinarily prolific, having published dozens of books, essays, plays and other texts. Royle avoids any pretence of a comprehensive survey, instead offering a rich and diverse sampling. At once expository and playful, original and funny, this micrological approach enables a new critical understanding and appreciation of Cixous's writing. If there is complexity in her work, Royle suggests, there is also uncanny simplicity and great pleasure. The book focuses on key motifs such as dreams, the supernatural, literature, psychoanalysis, creative writing, realism, sexual differences, laughter, secrets, the 'Mother unconscious', drawing, painting, autobiography as 'double life writing', unidentifiable literary objects (ULOs), telephones, non-human animals, telepathy and the 'art of cutting'. Particular stress is given to Cixous's work in relation to Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida, as well as to her importance in the context of 'English literature'. There are close readings of Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, P. B. Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, for example, alongside in-depth explorations of her own writings, from Inside (1969) and 'The Laugh of the Medusa' (1975) up to the present. Royle's book will be of particular interest to students and academics coming to Cixous's work for the first time, but it will also appeal to readers interested in contemporary literature, creative writing, life writing, narrative theory, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, ecology, drawing and painting.

Notes:

Made available via: manchesterhive.

MUP Literature Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Royle, Nicholas. Hélène Cixous: dreamer, realist, analyst, writing .

ISBN:

9781526140678

1526140675

9781526140685

1526140683

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