A01=Helene Cixous
Author_Helene Cixous
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Product details
- ISBN 9780748621316
- Weight: 290g
- Dimensions: 148 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2005
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is an account of, and commentary on, a collection of dreams by the novelist, playwright and theorist Hélène Cixous. As such the book presents a rich poetic experience and is a key document in understanding Cixous’ writing practice. Jacques Derrida’s commentary on Dream I Tell You is published in ‘The Frontiers of Theory’ series as Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius.Key Features* Importance of Helene Cixous to contemporary literary and French feminist theory.* The poetic, autobiographical quality of the writing.* Significance of the book to the Cixous oeuvre.
Hélène Cixous is Director of the Centre d'Études Féminines at Université Paris VIII, Emerita. one of the foremost intellectuals and creative writers in France and a major figure in the emergence and global spread of postmodern literary theory, late-20th-century Continental Thought and Women's Studies. She is the author of more than 40 novels, 14 plays and 15 volumes of theory and essays. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Hindi and Urdu.
