The Hélène Cixous Reader
This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span twenty years of intellectual thought and demonstrate clearly the development of one of the most creative and brilliant minds of the twentieth century. With a foreword by Jacques Derrida, a preface by Cixous herself, and first-class editoria…
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- Full title :The Hélène Cixous Reader.
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This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span twenty years of intellectual thought and demonstrate clearly the development of one of the most creative and brilliant minds of the twentieth century. With a foreword by Jacques Derrida, a preface by Cixous herself, and first-class editorial material by Susan Sellers, The Helene Cixous Reader is destined to become a key text of feminist writing.
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- Publication Date:©1994.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1994.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (267 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203408483, 0203408489
- oclc:on1097100793
- Dewey Decimal:848.914
Table of Contents
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword by Jacques Derrida -- Preface by Helne Cixous -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Neutral -- Inside -- First Names of No One -- The Newly Born Woman -- Breaths -- La -- The (Feminine) -- Angst -- To Live the Orange -- (With) Or the Art of Innocence -- Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite -- The Book of Promethea -- Extreme Fidelity -- The Terrible But Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk King of Cambodia -- The Place of Crime, The Place of Forgiveness -- Indiada or the India of Their Dreams -- Manna to the Mandelstams to the Mandelas -- FirstDays of the Year -- Deluge -- Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing -- Afterword by Mireille Calle-Gruber -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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