The Third Body - Hardcover

Cixous, Helene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810116871 ISBN 13: 9780810116870

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1999

Synopsis

In The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist Hélène Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations with other authors and thinkers. Cixous evokes the relationship of the female narrator and her over, a relationship of alternating presences and absences, separations and rejoinings. This relationship assumes protean forms within a complex web of writing, creating a "third body" out of the entwined bodies of the narrator and her lover.

About this title

About the Author:

 Hé lè ne Cixous is a professor emerita of literature and founder of the Centre d’ é tudes feminines, Paris VIII. Her numerous books include Stigmata, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, The Newly Born Woman, The Laugh of the Medusa, and Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory. In 2000, a collection in Cixous' name was created at the Bibliothè que nationale de France.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0810116871
• ISBN 13: 9780810116870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 161