A01=Nicholas Royle
Author_Nicholas Royle
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Cixous
Creative writing
Derrida
Dreaming
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Freud
Lewis Carroll
Literature
Realism
Shakespeare
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Product details
- ISBN 9781526160454
- Weight: 376g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2021
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Hélène Cixous (1937-), focusing on key motifs, such as dreams, the supernatural, literature, psychoanalysis, creative writing, realism, sexual differences, laughter, secrets, the ‘Mother unconscious’, drawing, painting, life writing, telephones, non-human animals, telepathy and the ‘art of cutting’. There are close readings of Shakespeare, Brontë, Shelley, Poe, Carroll, Freud, Woolf, Joyce, Beckett and Derrida, for example, alongside in-depth explorations of her own writings, from Inside (1969) and ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ (1975) up to the present. Royle’s book will be useful to students and academics coming to Cixous’s work for the first time, but it will also appeal to readers interested in contemporary literature, creative writing, life writing, narrative theory, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, feminism, queer theory, ecology, drawing and painting.
Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex
