Coming to Writing and Other Essays
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Book Overview
This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here H l ne Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning--manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. These superb translations do full justice to Cixous's prose, to its songlike flow and allusive brilliance.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0674144376
ISBN13:9780674144378
Release Date:September 1992
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:214 Pages
Weight:0.69 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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again and again
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
When I see orange and russet leaves wet with the mist of a rainy day in Central Park I feel as happy to be alive as I do when I read Cixous' essay "The Last Painting," included in this book. I imagine the shimmering surface of the Cathedral at Rouen. I feel glad that a human can write and think with such clarity and beauty and that I can read her words.
feminist critical theory
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
_Coming to Writing & Other Essays_ is a collection of essays dealing with the relationship between a marginalized person and writing-- that is between a person whose voice has been silenced and her voice. Cixous' writing is frequently narrative, rather than expository, so the text reads like so many short stories. She is irreverent and refreshing in the world of drily written critical thought.
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