
Helene Cixous
Writing the Feminine (Expanded Edition)
Verena Andermatt Conley(Author)
University of Nebraska Press
Published on 1. February 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
222 pages
978-0-8032-6345-1 (ISBN)
Description
Born in Algeria in 1937, Helene Cixous achieved world fame for her short stories, criticism, and fictionalized autobiography (Dedans, 1969). Her work quickly became controversial because it frankly tested a distinction between male and female writing. Her literary experiments and her conclusions make her one of the most stimulating and most elusive feminist theorists of our time. Verena Andermatt Conley, a professor of French and women's studies at Miami University, has written the first full-length study of Cixous in English. Looking at Cixous as writer, teacher, and theoretician, Conley takes up Cixous's ongoing exploration of the "feminine" as related to the "masculine"-words not to be equated with "woman" and "man"-and her search for a terminology less freighted with emotion and prejudgment. Conley has updated this paperback edition with a new preface, bibliography, and interview with Cixous conducted by the editors of Hors Cadre.
Reviews / Votes
"A valuable exposition of Cixous's projects, showing their changing relation to the cultural and hisorical situation from which she writes."-Year's Work in English Studies "[This book] serves the useful purpose-for English readers-of setting out the detailed trajectory of Cixous's writing career, describing her texts (both 'fiction' and 'theory') without any attempt at crude paraphrase, and placing her ideas in a wider . . . context."-Christopher Norris, London Review of BooksMore details
Edition
Expanded edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-6345-1 (9780803263451)
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