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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784377103321

Autore

Cixous Hélène <1937->

Titolo

Readings : the poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva / / Hélène Cixous ; edited, translated, and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1991

ISBN

0-8166-8376-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 156 pages)

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 77

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Philology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Writing and the Law: Blanchot, Joyce, Kafks, and Lispector; 2. Grace and Innocence: Heinrich von Kleist; 3. Apprenticeship and Alienation: Clarice Lispector and Maurice Blanchot; 4. Poetry, Passion, and History: Marina Tsvetayeva; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A leader in the feminist intellectual movement, Cixous presents this highly informative meditation on ethics and poetics which draws on philosophy and psychoanalysis.