Reading With Clarice Lispector (Theory and History of Literature)
by Helene Cixous
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The foremost French feminist literary critic pays homage to the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century.Tags
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WOW. I don't even know how to read books anymore. What is an egg? What is innocence? I thought I knew what all of these things were and now I am sure I have never seen an egg in my entire life.
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Born in 1937 in Algeria, Helene Cixous came to Paris, where she is currently professor of English, in 1955. After a dissertation on James Joyce, The Exile of James Joyce (1968), she began to publish novels, critical essays, and plays, most notably Le Portrait de Dora (1976), a feminist retelling of a Freudian case history. Jacques Derrida has show more named Helene Cixous the greatest contemporary French writer. Cixous has been an active participant in the development of literary criticism after structuralism and has been a leading figure in the French feminist movement. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Nonfiction
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- 869.3 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Literatures of Portuguese and Galician languages Portuguese fiction
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- PQ9697 .L585 .Z58 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Portuguese literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Brazil
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