Hélène Cixous (EPUB) von Nicholas Royle

A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers close readings of many of her works, fromInside (1969) to the present. He foregrounds Cixous's importance for 'English literature' as well as creative writing, autobiography, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, ecology, gender studies and queer theory.

Introduction
Cixous Cuts 1
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Three Words for Cixous
Cixous Cuts 2
Dream in Literature
Away
Cixous Cuts 3
Portmanteau
Cixous Cuts 4
To Awake, Shakespeare of the Night
Dream Treatment: On Sitting Down to Read a Letter from Freud
Cixous Cuts 5
Side Thinking
All wards

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, fromInside (1969) and The Laugh of the Medusa (1975) up to the present. Royles book will be useful to students and academics coming to Cixouss 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.