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The Hélène Cixous reader

Author: Hélène Cixous; Susan Sellers
Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: translations into English
Named Person: Hélène Cixous; Hélène Cixous
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hélène Cixous; Susan Sellers
ISBN: 0415049296 9780415049290 041504930X 9780415049306
OCLC Number: 29313798
Language Note: In English. Original language: French.
Description: xxxiv, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Jacques Derrida --
Preface / Helene Cixous --
Neutral --
Inside --
First Names of No One --
The Newly Born Woman --
Breaths --
La - The (Feminine) --
Angst --
To Live the Orange --
(With) Or the Art of Innocence --
Lemonade Everything Was So infinite --
The Book of Promethea --
Extreme Fidelity --
The Terrible But Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk King of Cambodia --
The Place of Crime, The Place of Forgiveness --
Indiada or the India of Their Dreams --
Manna to the Mandelstams to the Mandelas --
FirstDays of the Year --
Deluge --
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing --
Afterword / Mireille Calle-Gruber.
Other Titles: Selections.
Responsibility: edited by Susan Sellers ; with a preface by Hélène Cixous and foreword by Jacques Derrida.
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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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