Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism
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Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

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Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

About this book

HĂ©lĂšne Cixous is well-known as a reader of 'modernist' writers: Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Faulkner, Bachmann and others, while her own fiction writing forges many new directions in literature.

Foremost readers of the work of HĂ©lĂšne Cixous consider new interpretations of her vast literary and theoretical work, examining its relation and non-relation to modernism. Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism features an extended new interview with Cixous, conducted for the volume, in which she reflects on her relation to the critical category of 'modernism,' alongside a previously untranslated piece by the author.

As with other volumes in the series, Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism follows a three-part structure. Essays in the first section examine individual works by Cixous and the varied approaches her work has taken towards literature and art. The second section examines critical and aesthetic parameters of her writing practices. The final section contains a glossary of key terms and Cixous's neologisms recurrent throughout her work.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2025
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9798765132029
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Series Preface
  8. Abbreviations of Works by HĂ©lĂšne Cixous
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I: Conceptualizing Cixous
  11. Chapter 1: Bookcities and Cityscapes: Going Places with HĂ©lĂšne Cixous: (Alongside Joyce and Kafka)
  12. Chapter 2: Scars Poetica
  13. Chapter 3: The Bee and the Coffee Machine: Writing Apparatuses and Machineries in HĂ©lĂšne Cixous’s Works
  14. Chapter 4: Another Analysis: HĂ©lĂšne Cixous’s Magical Writing
  15. Chapter 5: (S)He War, or Rethinking War-Peace and Crime with Cixous
  16. Chapter 6: HĂ©lĂšne Cixous and Philosophy
  17. Chapter 7: Full Flush: An Interview with HĂ©lĂšne Cixous
  18. Part II: Cixousian Aesthetics
  19. Chapter 8: The Apparatus of Death: Kafka, Baudelaire, Poe (Excerpt from HĂ©lĂšne Cixous’s Seminar, June 1, 2024)
  20. Chapter 9: Countersigning Proust
  21. Chapter 10: Cixous Reading Kafka
  22. Chapter 11: Life Death, Invisible Fighters, and Siamese Twins
  23. Chapter 12: Fugue on a Theme by HĂ©lĂšne Cixous
  24. Chapter 13: Ghostvoices in Hyperdream: Homonymy, Homophony, Repetition
  25. Chapter 14: Double Takes: Rereading HĂ©lĂšne Cixous’s “Medusa”1
  26. Chapter 15: Mdeilmm: Mole Speech
  27. Part III: Glossary
  28. Chapter 16: Algériance
  29. Chapter 17: Appellation
  30. Chapter 18: Cry
  31. Chapter 19: Dream
  32. Chapter 20: Libidinal Economies
  33. Chapter 21: Mole
  34. Chapter 22: Plusje
  35. Chapter 23: Puisse
  36. Chapter 24: The Book
  37. Notes
  38. Contributors
  39. Index of Proper Names

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