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Hèléne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time. Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso -- works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences. Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have become characteristic of Cixous' work: love's labours lost and found feminine hours autobiographies of writing the prehistory of the work of art Stigmata goes beyond theory, becoming an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times. ** A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Hélène Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a surprising extent. With the inclusion of Stigmata , one of her greatest works

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Author

Hélène Cixous

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415179799

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.29 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14