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Stigmata: Escaping Texts

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Synopsis:

This collection of essays explores a broad range of 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.

Synopsis:

"Stigmata" brings together Helene Cixous's most recent essays for the first time in any language. It is a collection of texts that get away--escaping the reader, the writers, the book--by one of the greatest authors and intellectuals of our times.

Signifying through a tissue of philosophical metaphor, poetic power, critical insight and disarming lightness, Cixous's writing is taken up in a reading pursuit, chasing across borders and through languages on the heels of works by authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, Lispector, Tsvetayeva, 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 long been circulating in the Cixousian universe: love's labours lost and found, feminine hours, autobiographies of writing, animal-human family ties, the prehistory of the work of art... woven into a performance of writing at the intersection of contemporary Western history and a singularity named Helene Cixous.

Evoking her writing "origins," the economy of a departure from Algeria (so as) never to arrive, and the psychomythical events that are engraved as fertile wounds into the body's many bodies, this book is an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198) and index.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780415179799
Subtitle:
Escaping Texts
Author:
Cixous, Helene
Author:
Cixous, Helene
Publisher:
Routledge
Location:
London ;
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Essays (single author)
Subject:
Feminist
Subject:
French essays -- Translations into English.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references p. 195-198.
Publication Date:
November 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.52x5.49x.56 in. .70 lbs.

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