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Born in Algeria in 1937, Helene Cixous achieved world fame for her short stories, criticism, and fictionalized autobiography (Dedans, 1969). Her work quickly became controversial because it frankly tested a distinction between male and female writing. Her literary experiments and her conclusions make her one of the most stimulating and most elusive feminist theorists of our time. Verena Andermatt Conley, a professor of French and women's studies at Miami University, has written the first full-length study of Cixous in English. Looking at Cixous as writer, teacher, and theoretician, Conley takes up Cixous's ongoing exploration of the "feminine" as related to the "masculine"-words not to be equated with "woman" and "man"-and her search for a terminology less freighted with emotion and prejudgment. Conley has updated this paperback edition with a new preface, bibliography, and interview with Cixous conducted by the editors of Hors Cadre.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Helene Cixous
• Subtitle: Writing the Feminine (Expanded Edition)
• Author: Verena Andermatt Conley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 197
• EAN: 9780803263451
• ISBN: 0803263457
• ID: 04923794
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 300 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 217 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 1991

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