Hélène Cixous

This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Hélène Cixous (1937-) focusing on key motifs such as dreams the supernatural literature psychoanalysis creative writing realism sexual differences laughter secrets the 'Mother unconscious' drawing painting life writing telephones non-human animals telepathy and the 'art of cutting'. There are close readings of Shakespeare Brontë Shelley Poe Carroll Freud Woolf Joyce Beckett and Derrida for example alongside in-depth explorations of her own writings from <i>Inside</i> (1969) and 'The Laugh of the Medusa' (1975) up to the present. Royle's book will be useful to students and academics coming to Cixous's work for the first time but it will also appeal to readers interested in contemporary literature creative writing life writing narrative theory deconstruction psychoanalysis trauma studies feminism queer theory ecology drawing and painting.