Stigmata: Escaping Texts

di Hélène Cixous (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1998

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.

• Autore: Hélène Cixous
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 1998
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 208 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 430 gr.
• EAN: 9780415179782

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