| Helene Cixous: Writing and Sexual Differences 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Bray, Abigail (Author), Wolfreys, Julian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333922395 ISBN-13: 9780333922392 Publisher: Red Globe Press OUR PRICE: $60.39 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: Abigail Bray offers a lucid and accessible introduction to Helene Cixous's major philosophical and literary concepts and carefully explains the critical relevance of her theorization of writing and sexual difference. Bray provides original and provocative readings of texts by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Angela Carter in order to explore the creative potential of Cixous's thought on literature and philosophy. The book also explores the thinker's unique approach to the ethics of sexual difference, postmodern theories of desire, queer theory, nonhuman subjectivity, ecofeminism, cybersex, virtuality, embodiment and radical materialism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | European - French - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 2003053673 |
| Series: Transitions |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.36" W x 8.74" (0.89 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Abigail Bray offers a lucid and accessible introduction to Hélène Cixous's major philosophical and literary concepts and carefully explains the critical relevance of her theorization of writing and sexual difference. Bray provides original and provocative readings of texts by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Angela Carter in order to explore the creative potential of Cixous's thought on literature and philosophy. The book also explores the thinker's unique approach to the ethics of sexual difference, postmodern theories of desire, queer theory, nonhuman subjectivity, ecofeminism, cybersex, virtuality, embodiment and radical materialism. |