{"product_id":"helene-cixous-dreamer-realist-analyst-writing-9781526140661","title":"HéLèNe Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, from \u003ci\u003eInside\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) and ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ (1975) up to the present. Royle’s book will be useful to students and academics coming to Cixous’s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Royle considers Cixous’s work in relation to that of authors that she has herself read and analyzed, in particular Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida. The author states that his study is intended to be accessible for readers with little background in feminist literary theory, deconstruction, or psychoanalysis, and he delivers on that promise. This study is an exercise in creative reading, an approach Royle defines in the introduction for those unfamiliar with it… The book is compelling and will interest readers of Cixous in any language.'\u003cbr\u003eReprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: dreamer, realist, analyst, writing \u003cbr\u003e2 Cixous cuts: through everything \u003cbr\u003e3 Advertisement: the joys of literature and the return of the dead \u003cbr\u003e4 Cixous cuts: take time \u003cbr\u003e5 Dream in literature \u003cbr\u003e6 Cixous cuts: from the axe to giving birth \u003cbr\u003e7 Away \u003cbr\u003e8 Cixous cuts: the veil in me \u003cbr\u003e9 Portmanteau \u003cbr\u003e10 Cixous cuts: Lewis Carroll \u003cbr\u003e11 To awake, Shakespeare of the Night \u003cbr\u003e12 Dream treatment: on sitting down to read a letter from Freud \u003cbr\u003e13 Side thinking \u003cbr\u003e14 All wards \u003cbr\u003e15 Four words for Cixous \u003cbr\u003e16 The one time Hélène Cixous entered my garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex of works by Cixous \u003cbr\u003eGeneral index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041002160471,"sku":"9781526140661","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526140661.jpg?v=1750948561","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/helene-cixous-dreamer-realist-analyst-writing-9781526140661","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}