Hélène Cixous Summary

HÉlÈne Cixous (1937 -) Algerian-born French novelist, short-story writer, essayist, nonfiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter. HÉlÈne Cixous: Introduction HÉlÈne Ci... Read more

Over the past two decades, French literature has explored new ways of expressing the self and the relationship between the self and the world. With the advent of the human sciences--linguistics, anthr... Read more

In the following excerpt from a review in which he examines a number of books on the work of James Joyce, Boyle offers a negative assessment of The Exile of James Joyce. He states that while it reflec... Read more

Steiner is a Canadian-born American critic and educator who has written works on such authors as Gertrude Stein and Roman Jakobson. In the review below, she offers mixed assessments of "Coming ... Read more

Duren is an American educator. In the essay below, he notes that Cixous, in such works as La jeune née and Prénoms de personne, attempts to undermine and subvert traditional notions of l... Read more

Conley is a Swiss-born critic and educator. In the interview below, which was conducted in January 1982, Cixous discusses such topics as her concept of écriture féminine (or feminine wri... Read more

In the following excerpt, Libertin provides a favorable review of The Newly Born Woman. Those who are unfamiliar with Hélène Cixous's "Laugh of the Medusa" or wit... Read more

Below, Wright and Chisholm offer a favorable assessment of The Newly Born Woman, stating that "this is an important book, which transgresses the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, poet... Read more