Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism
Description
Hélène 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 Hélène 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.
Table of Contents
Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, USA
Part I. Conceptions of Cixous
1. (S)he War, or rethinking war-peace and crime with Cixous
Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal, Canada
2. Life-Death, Invisible Wrestlers, and Siamese Twins
Marta Segarra, University of Paris VIII, France
3. Bookcities and Cityscapes: Going Places with Cixous (alongside Joyce and Kafka)
Laurent Milesi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
4. Hélène Cixous and Philosophy
Brigette Weltman-Aron, University of Florida, USA
5. Hélène Cixous and Sigmund Freud
Elissa Marder, Emory University, USA
6. On Hyperrêve
Esther von der Osten, Freie Universität, Germany
7. On Tombe and Manhattan
Laura Hughes, Independent Scholar
8. The Apparatus of Death: Kafka, Baudelaire, Poe
Hélène Cixous
Part II. Cixousian Aesthetics
9. Interview with Hélène Cixous, Peggy Kamuf, and Nicholas Royle
Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, USA, and Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK
10. Coutersigning Proust
Mairéad Hanrahan, University College London, UK
11. Fugue on a Theme of Hélène Cixous
Naomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK
12. The Bee and the Coffee Machine: Writing apparatuses and machineries in Hélène Cixous's Works
Olivier Morel, Notre Dame University, USA
13. Hélène Cixous and Punctuation
Eric Prenowitz, University of Leeds, UK
15. Cixous reading Kafka
Christa Stevens, Independent Scholar
Part III. Glossary
16. Algériance
Christa Stevens, Independent Scholar
17. The Book
Laura Hughes, Independent Scholar
19. Cry
Naomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK
20. Dream
Olivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA
23. Mole
Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK
25. Puisse
Naomi Waltham-Smith, Warwick University, UK
27. Telephone
Olivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA
Endnotes
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 08 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9798765132029 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 1 b&w illustration |
| Series | Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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