Stigmata: Escaping Texts - Softcover

Cixous, Hélène

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415179793 ISBN 13: 9780415179799

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Hèléne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time.
Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso -- works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences. Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have become characteristic of Cixous' work:
* love's labours lost and found
* feminine hours
* autobiographies of writing
* the prehistory of the work of art
Stigmata goes beyond theory, becoming an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times.

About this title

About the Author

Hélène Cixous Centre de Recherches en etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415179793
• ISBN 13: 9780415179799
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208