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Cixous, Hélène 1937-

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Works: 565 works in 1,379 publications in 19 languages and 42,519 library holdings
Genres: Love stories  Experimental fiction 
Roles: Author of introduction, Editor, Other, Interviewee, Narrator, Librettist, Scenarist, Performer, Adapter, Author of dialog, Translator, Dedicatee, Bibliographic antecedent, Honoree, Creator
Classifications: pq2663.i9, 843.914
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4 editions published between and 1976 in English and held by 969 libraries worldwide
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30 editions published between and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 832 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published in in English and held by 766 libraries worldwide
The foremost French feminist literary critic pays homage to the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century.
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9 editions published in in English and held by 690 libraries worldwide
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21 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 674 libraries worldwide
This is the first truly representative selection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span twenty years of intellectual thought and demonstrate clearly the development of one of the most creative and brilliant minds of the twentieth century. The editor's introductions to each piece will be especially helpful to readers new to the writings of Helene Cixous.
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20 editions published between and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 656 libraries worldwide
This first English translation of Cixous' book, Photos de Racine, explores Cixous' development as a writer and intellectual. A must for students and scholars of French feminist theory, gender studies and literary theory.
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24 editions published between and 2005 in English and held by 636 libraries worldwide
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.
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17 editions published between and 1986 in 3 languages and held by 581 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 523 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1994 in English and held by 520 libraries worldwide
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7 editions published between and 1992 in English and held by 479 libraries worldwide
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13 editions published between and 2005 in French and English and held by 427 libraries worldwide
"Who can say "I am Jewish?" What does "Jew" mean? In Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Helene Cixous explores what these questions mean for the influential philosopher Jacques Derrida, founder of deconstruction, scoffer at fixed identities, and explorer of the indeterminate. Cixous's kaleidoscopic portrait effortlessly merges biography, textual commentary, and discussions of Jewish rituals and past philosophers in a playful exploration of Derrida, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish." "Derrida, who died in 2004, and Cixous were lifelong friends and grew up as French Jews in Algeria. They shared a "belonging constituted of exclusion and nonbelonging" - not Algerian, rejected by France, their Jewishness concealed or acculturated. In Derrida's family, "one never said 'circumcision' but 'baptism,' not 'Bar Mitzvah' but 'communion.'" Judaism cloaked in Catholicism is one example of the undecidability of identity that influenced the thinker whom Cixous calls a "Jewish Saint.""--BOOK JACKET.
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18 editions published between and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 419 libraries worldwide
"In The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist Helene Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotal presentations, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations with other authors and thinkers. Cixous evokes the relationship of the female narrator and her lover, a relationship of alternating presences and absences, separations and rejoinings - a passionate and ever-buoyant relationship in which the partners partake of life and death, memory and oblivion, desire and discovery, the transgressive and the visionary, and the chimerical and the "real." This relationship assumes protean forms within a complex web of writing, creating a "third body" out of the entwined bodies of the narrator and her lover. This is a sensuous body endowed with flesh-and-blood reality, and it is also the body of the text: for Cixous, writing is grounded in the physical body, and the physical body becomes writing." "The three dominant texts that Cixous cites or alludes to Wilhelm Jensen's novel Gradiva; Freud's interpretation of that work in the essay "Delusion and Dream"; and Kleist's "Earthquake in Chile" - are integrated with reminiscences of the narrator's dead father, juxtaposed with thoughts about her lover; evocations of the narrator's mother; and ruminations on figures taken from Scripture, classical mythology, and fairy tales."--BOOK JACKET.
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21 editions published between and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 398 libraries worldwide
Sur scène actuellement, à la Cartoucherie de Vincennes.
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9 editions published between and 1994 in French and English and held by 393 libraries worldwide
A prose-poem on two married couples involved in the revolutionary struggle. One is Nelson and Willie Mandella of South Africa, the other Russian poet Osip Mandelstam and his wife, Nadezhda. In drawing parallels, the author stresses the contribution of the wives.
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8 editions published between and 1998 in French and English and held by 377 libraries worldwide
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15 editions published between and 2006 in English and French and held by 369 libraries worldwide
"For years, Helene Cixous has been writing down fragments of her dreams immediately after awaking. In Dream I Tell You, she collects fifty from the past ten years. Cixous's accounts of her dreamscapes resist standard psychoanalytic interpretations and reflect her lyrical, affecting, and deeply personal style. The dreams, reproduced in what Cixous calls both their "brute and innocent state," are infused with Cixous's humor, wit, and sense of playfulness." "Dreams have always been a crucial part of Cixous's writing. They are her archives and it is with them that she writes. Without dreaming, Cixous writes, "I would crumble to dust." As in many of her other texts, Cixous's mother, father, daughter, and friends populate this work, which offers artistic and provocative meditations on the themes of family, death, and resurrection. Scenes of a daily life - getting a haircut, caring for her child, preparing for work - become skewed in Cixous's dreams. She also writes of dreams, both amusing and unsettling, in which she spends an evening with Martin Heidegger, has her lunch quietly interrupted by a young lion, flees the Nazis, and tours Auschwitz." "The "you" of the title is fellow philosopher and friend Jacques Derrida, to whom these texts are addressed. The book reflects on many of the subjects the two grappled with in their work and in conversation: the deconstruction of psychoanalysis, literary production, subjectivity, sexual difference, and the question of friendship."--BOOK JACKET.
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10 editions published between and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 338 libraries worldwide
""Neutre est ne-uter, sujet sans la limite d'un sexe ou l'autre, d'un genre ou l'autre, ni l'un ni l'autre (...). Théâtre de la double métaphore du phénix et de l'écriture, il brûle ses planches. Nid d'écritures, "Neutre" est un foyer de fictions.""
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11 editions published between and 2006 in French and English and held by 314 libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman psychologique (intime).
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18 editions published between and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 304 libraries worldwide
 
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Alternative Names
Cixous, H. 1937-
Languages
French (804)
English (519)
Undetermined (53)
German (38)
Spanish (27)
Multiple languages (12)
Italian (10)
Danish (6)
Japanese (6)
Portuguese (6)
Dutch (5)
Slovenian (3)
Galician (2)
Arabic (1)
Hindi (1)
Hebrew (1)
Catalan (1)
Turkish (1)
Norwegian (1)
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