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Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time: I. Los, A Chapter Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9781509500550
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Helene Cixous has dreamed for years of "The Book-I-Don't-Write," but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. When Jacques Derrida told her the... -
Death Shall Be Dethroned: Los, A Chapter, the Journal Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9781509500659
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Death Shall Be Dethroned is the "shadow book" of Los, a Chapter, Helene Cixous tells us. It came along after Los, but it was always there "hidden" in her notebooks, in the Beethoven notebook, say,... -
Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness by Michaela Hulstyn 9781487543761
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £39.11Altered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood... -
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The Study of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Seraph on the Suwanee" in the Light of Helene Cixous' Theories by Iran Zamani 9783656943518
RRP: £74.90Booksplease Price: £56.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656943518Author Iran ZamaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin... -
Postcolonial Derrida Dr Sean Meighoo 9781399554817
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19Jacques Derrida remains one of the most renowned intellectuals in the areas of philosophy, literary studies, and cultural criticism today. Yet the close relationship between Derrida's philosophical... -
Erotics of Deconstruction: Auto-Affection After Derrida Lynn Turner 9781399539746
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.66Erotics of Deconstruction takes advantage of over a decade of publications from Derrida's seminars to creatively demonstrate the deep material range of deconstruction and emphasise its... -
Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities by Mona El Khoury 9781793617712
Booksplease Price: £37.81At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end of... -
Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism Professor Peggy Kamuf 9798765132036
Booksplease Price: £90.57Helene Cixous is well-known as a reader of 'modernist' writers: Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Faulkner, Bachmann and others, while her own fiction writing forges many new directions in literature.Foremost... -
Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities by Mona El Khoury
Booksplease Price: £112.43At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end of... -
Cixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis: Paragraph Volume.36, Number 2 by Mairead Hanrahan 9780748677085
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60This book considers the different ways psychoanalysis is of immense importance to the work of Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Psychoanalysis is of immense importance in different ways to Helene... -
Ways of Re-Thinking Literature Tom Bishop 9781138675759
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity of views into what literature is today.The texts gathered in this... -
Subjectivity and Women's Poetry in Early Modern England: Why on the Ridge Should She Desire to Go? by Lynnette McGrath 9781138741157
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.49This title was first published in 2002: Combining the approaches of historic scholarship and post-structural, feminist psychoanalytic theory to late 16th- and early 17th-century poetry by women, this... -
Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile by Amy L. Hubbell 9780803264908
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million... -
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century by Lara Stevens 9781137538871
Booksplease Price: £90.56Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the 'War on Terror', this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in... -
From Francophonie to World Literature in French: Ethics, Poetics, and Politics by Therese Migraine-George 9780803246362
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled "Toward a 'World Literature' in French," signed by forty-four writers, many from France's former colonies. Proclaiming that the... -
Wish You Were Here: 111 Artists, 111 Notes Hans Ulrich Obrist 9781912122974
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.35Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram feeds of more than 396,000 followers (and counting!) in an endeavour to... -
Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology Lawrence Venuti 9781138361874
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator's activity more visible by using critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of... -
Writing Feminist Autoethnography: In Love With Theory, Words, and the Language of Women Writers by Elizabeth Mackinlay
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Writing Feminist Autoethnography explores the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist theory and practice. Each chapter introduces the lives and works of a range of... -
Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius: The Secrets of the Archive by Jacques Derrida 9780748621293
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.91He insists on my dreams, on my letters, on my Hs on my Cs, on my Js, on my Gs. G, G, G, G, jet ! A" You are my insister A" he says. A" You are my insister A" I say. No one has... -
H. C. for Life, That Is to Say... by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68H. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Derrida's literary critical recollection of his lifelong friendship with Helene Cixous. The main figure that informs Derrida's reading here is that of "taking... -
These Are Love(d) Letters by Ames Hawkins 9780814347263
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Ames Hawkins's These are Love(d) Letters is a genre-bending visual memoir and work of literary nonfiction that explores the questions: What inspires a person to write a love letter? What inspires a... -
Revisiting the Scene of Writing: New Readings of Cixous: Paragraph Volume 23, Issue 3 by 9780748615209
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79This issue of Paragraph, 'Revisiting the Scene ofWriting: New Readings of Cixous', aims both to reflect and to foster the extraordinary ongoing impact of Helene Cixous's writing across a wide... -
Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude by Mary Noonan
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04This book examines the plays of four women-Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Helene Cixous and Noelle Renaude-writing in the latter years of the twentieth century and the early years of the... -
Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude by Mary Noonan 9780367600297
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book examines the plays of four women-Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Helene Cixous and Noelle Renaude-writing in the latter years of the twentieth century and the early years of the... -
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century by Penny Farfan 9780472074358
Booksplease Price: £75.55This book foregrounds some of the ways in which women playwrights from across a range of contexts and working in a variety of forms and styles are illuminating the contemporary world while also... -
Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture Khadijah Queen 9780472039791
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.65Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers... -
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Professor Stuart Sim
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.95Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern... -
En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera by Corinne E. Blackmer 9780231102698
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02-- Michael and Linda Hutcheon, Cambridge Opera JournalEn Travesti addresses the ways in which opera empowers women by challenging conventional gender hierarchies. Terry Castle, Helene Cixous, Lowell... -
Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction by Martin McQuillan 9780333794142
Booksplease Price: £46.28Theorizing Muriel Spark is the first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, postcolonial and... -
Rethinking the French Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women by E. Nicole Meyer
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This volume investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom. Focusing on how women writing in French are changing the face of French Studies,... -
Book of Addresses by Peggy Kamuf
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a... -
Paths to Contemporary French Literature: Volume 1 by John Taylor
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.09Although the great French novelists of the last two centuries are widely read in America, there is a widespread notion that little of importance has happened in French literature since the heyday of... -
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo 9781350564138
Booksplease Price: £29.15The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory. Examining 75 key... -
The Animal Question in Deconstruction by Lynn Turner
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79This explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the 'animal question'. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of... -
Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction by Martin McQuillan 9781349420087
Booksplease Price: £46.74Theorizing Muriel Spark is the first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, postcolonial and... -
Bisexuality: A Critical Reader by Merl Storr
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Bisexuality: A Critical Reader presents the essential primary texts on bisexuality from the last 100 years in an easy-to-read format. Exploring this often controversial concept from a range of... -
Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe Neil Leach 9780415139151
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned... -
Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought by Verena Andermatt Conley 9780415103060
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness - or non-awareness - in contemporary French theory. Arguing that it is now impossible not to think in an ecological way, Verena Andermatt Conley... -
Book of Addresses by Peggy Kamuf 9780804750592
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a... -
Opera: The Undoing of Women by Catherine Clement 9780816635269
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24An incisive and impassioned examination of women's treatment in opera.Catherine Clement analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent operas-Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and The Magic...