Stigmata : Escaping Texts

Cixous, Hélène

ISBN 10: 0415179785 / ISBN 13: 9780415179782

Published by Routledge (1998), London, 1998

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22x14cm, vi,198 pp. 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 -- Mamãe, 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. [" This collection of essays explores some poetico-philosophical questions that have long been circulating in the Cixousian universe: love s labours lost and found, feminine hours, autobiographies of writing, and animal-human family ties" - publisher's description].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stigmata : Escaping Texts
• Publisher: Routledge (1998), London
• Publication Date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415179785
• ISBN 13: 9780415179782
• Binding: orig. boards
• Condition: Minor wear. VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

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 poetico-philosophical questions that have become characteristic of Cixous' work:
* love's labours lost and found
* feminine hours
* autobiographies of writing
* the prehistory of the work of art
Stigmata goes beyond theory, becoming an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times.

About the Author

Hélène Cixous Centre de Recherches en etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France)