| Description |
vi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Reading in painting. 1. Bathsheba or the interior Bible. 2. Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner's taking off -- Ringing in the feminine hour. 3. In October 1991 ... 4. Hiss of the axe. 5. What is it o'clock? or The door (we never enter). 6. Love of the wolf. 7. 'Mamae, disse ele,' or Joyce's second hand -- Going off writing. 8. Unmasked! 9. Writing blind: conversation with the donkey. 10. My Algeriance, in other words: to depart not to arrive from Algeria -- From my menagerie to Philosophy. 11. Shared at dawn. 12. Stigmata, or Job the dog -- Bibliography: Helene Cixous's book-length publications 1967-1998 |
| Summary |
This collection of essays explores some poetico-philosophical questions that have long been circulating in the Cixousian universe: love's labours lost and found, feminine hours, autobiographies of writing, and animal-human family ties |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-198) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
French literature.
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Stigmatization.
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| LC no. |
98017127 98017127 |
| ISBN |
0415179785 (hbk) |
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0415179793 (paperback) |
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