Cixous S Semi Fictions

Author : Mairead Hanrahan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748696642

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Cixous's Semi-Fictions by Mairead Hanrahan Pdf

Hélène Cixous, author of over forty works of fiction, was deemed by Derrida to be the greatest living writer in French in 1990. Consistent with this evaluation, her writing is renowned for its dense poetical texture and lyricism. At the same time, she has been described by one of Derrida's translators, Peggy Kamuf, as 'one of our age's greatest semi-theoreticians'. Connecting these views, Hanrahan argues for a consideration of her texts as 'semi-fictions'. She offers an in-depth reading of five different texts, addressing their idiomatic specificity and investigating how the textual fabric unfolds.

Author : Margaret Atack,Alison S. Fell,Diana Holmes,Imogen Long
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789620429

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Making Waves by Margaret Atack,Alison S. Fell,Diana Holmes,Imogen Long Pdf

1975 was a key year for the women's movement in France. Through a critical exploration of the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, this book evaluates the achievements and legacies of second wave French feminism for subsequent 'waves', including the movement's contemporary resurgence.

Author : Hélène Cixous
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781531502904

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Manhattan by Hélène Cixous Pdf

Manhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University’s Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return. A young European intellectual’s first contact with America and the city of New York are the background of this story. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same. Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, Manhattan deploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous’s fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the “omnipotence-other” seductions of literature; a family’s flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with a counterfeit genius.

Author : Pamela Marie Hoffer
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820479187

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Reflets Réciproques by Pamela Marie Hoffer Pdf

Reflets réciproques: A Prismatic Reading of Stéphane Mallarmé and Hélène Cixous evokes the refractory aspect of a prism that bends and deflects light in order to produce a spectrum of twentieth-century thought emanating from the late nineteenth-century French literary avant-garde. Because the works of Mallarmé and Cixous are often described as hermetic and illisible, Jacques Derrida intervenes to play the role of intermediary through his separate writings on these poets. Important questions arise: How does the elliptical writing of Mallarmé relate to the hyperbolic writing of Cixous? What common strategies emerge and how do these strategies address the critical areas of sexual difference and political testimony for each writer?

Author : Hélène Cixous,Eric Prenowitz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415236681

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Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous by Hélène Cixous,Eric Prenowitz Pdf

Cixous' work as a playwright - working mainly with Theatre du Soleil and their director Ariane Mnouchkine - establishes her as a participant in some of the most adventurous European theatre making of the last 40 years. This collection brings together for the first time, four translations into English of Helene Cixous' plays. It is a unique and extraordinary resource for scholars, students and theatre-makers. The collection includes: *The Perjured City, translated by Bernadette Fort *Black Sail, White Sail, translated by Donald Watson *Portrait of Dora, translated by Ann Liddle *Drums on the Dam, translated by Judith G. Miller and Brian J. Mallet This exciting new anthology will disseminate her work to a wide and receptive English-speaking audience.

Author : Helene Cixous
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781474425131

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Mother Homer is Dead by Helene Cixous Pdf

The first translation into English of Mother Homer is Dead, written in the immediate aftermath of the death of the Cixous's mother in the 103rd year of her life.

Author : Margaret Atack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019834459

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Contemporary French Fiction by Women by Margaret Atack Pdf

This book aims to introduce, situate and contextualize the fictional work by women in the post-war period in France as well as to develop a feminist analysis of the work in French feminist theory. The writers treated include those from an earlier generation, such as Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Christine Rochefort, Genevieve Serreau and Monique Wittig, as well as Marie Cardinal, Annie Ernaux, Djanet Lachmet, Claire Etcherelli, Michele Perrein and the exponents of ecriture feminine associated with des femmes publishers and the psychanalyse et politique group, such as Chantal Chawaf and Helene Cixous.

Author : Professor Kelly Oliver
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791440516

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Language and Liberation by Professor Kelly Oliver Pdf

Gathers authors with different backgrounds and methods to advance feminist discussions of the relation between language and women's oppression, suggesting promising new directions for further research.

Author : Hélène Cixous
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823287642

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Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem by Hélène Cixous Pdf

An inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation For about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Saxony. After the war, Osnabrück counted not a single Jew. Most had been deported and murdered in the camps, others emigrated if they could and if they managed to overcome their own inertia. It is this inertia and failure to escape that Hélène Cixous seeks to account for in Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem. Vicious anti-Semitism hounded all of Osnabrück’s Jews long before the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933. So why did people wait to leave when the threat was so patent, so in-their-face? Drawn from the stories told to Cixous by her mother, Ève, and grandmother, Rosalie (Rosi), this literary work reimagines fragments of Ève’s and Rosi’s stories, including the death of Ève’s uncle, Onkel André. Piecing together the story of Andreas Jonas from what she was told and from what she envisages, Cixous recounts the tragedy of the one she calls the King Lear of Osnabrück, who followed his daughter to Jerusalem only to be sent away by her and to return to Osnabrück in time to be deported to a death camp. Cixous wanders the streets of the city she had heard about all her life in her mother’s and grandmother’s stories, digs into its archives, meets city officials, all the while wondering if she should have come. These hesitations and reflections in the present, often voiced in dialogues staged with her own son or daughter, are woven with scenes from her childhood in Algeria and the half-remembered, half-invented stories of the Jonas family, making Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem one of the author’s most intensely engaging books. This work received the French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation. French Voices is a program created and funded by the French Embassy in the United States and FACE (French American Cultural Exchange).

Author : Hélène Cixous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:79332211

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Laugh of the Medusa by Hélène Cixous Pdf

Author : Alan L. Mintz
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Israeli fiction
ISBN : 087451830X

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The Boom in Contemporary Israeli Fiction by Alan L. Mintz Pdf

Five essays explore facets of what Mintz calls the complexity of cultural reverberations in Israeli fiction of the past two decades.

Author : Helene Cixous
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0823287629

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Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem by Helene Cixous Pdf

Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107126084

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Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory by Robin Truth Goodman Pdf

This book offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, it traces the literary careers of feminism's major thinkers in order to elucidate the connection of feminist theoretical production to literary work.

Author : Sonja Stojanovic
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800854895

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Mind the Ghost by Sonja Stojanovic Pdf

Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, and literality and metaphor. A contribution to current conversations in memory studies and spectrality studies, Mind the Ghost is an experiment in reading ghosts otherwise. It explores, through contemporary fiction in French, sites of textual haunting that take the form of names, lists, objects, photographs, and stains. The book turns to Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous to rethink what constitutes and functions as a ghost, proposing that this figure solicits readers’ investment in mnemonic practices. Considering the memories and legacies of violence that have marked the greater part of the twentieth-century – in Algeria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, and Rwanda – this book traces absences, disappearances and reappearances, textual omissions and untimely irruptions to posit literature’s power to both remember and communicate beyond the bounds of chronological time. Through close readings of recent fiction by Kaouther Adimi, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Gaël Faye, Jérôme Ferrari, Patrick Modiano, Lydie Salvayre, Leïla Sebbar, and Cécile Wajsbrot, Mind the Ghost articulates the mechanisms through which readers themselves become haunted.

Author : Hélène Cixous,Jacques Derrida,Geoffrey Bennington
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804737959

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Veils by Hélène Cixous,Jacques Derrida,Geoffrey Bennington Pdf

This book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Hélène Cixous is an account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia; Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" muses on a host of motifs, including his varied responses to "Savoir."