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Hyperdream by Helene Cixous
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56Hyperdream is a major new novel by celebrated French author Helene Cixous. It is a literary tour de force, returning anew to challenge necessity itself, the most implacable of human certainties: you... -
Philippines by Helene Cixous 9780745648156
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40Philippines is Helene Cixous's reverie or 'true dreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy, autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhood and adult life, shared... -
Veils by Helene Cixous 9780804737951
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but... -
Tomb(e) by Helene Cixous 9780857427540
Booksplease Price: $20.84'In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides,' wrote Helene Cixous, esteemed French feminist, playwright, philosopher, literary critic,... -
Newly Born Woman by Helene Cixous 9780816614660
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.22Published in France as La jeune nee in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Helene Cixous and... -
First Days Of The Year by Helene Cixous 9780816621170
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816621170Author Helene CixousFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
The Day I Wasn't There by Helene Cixous 9780810123649
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes by Helene Cixous
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07All the time when I lived in Algeria, my native country, I dreamt of one day arriving in Algeria. Born in Oran, Algeria, Helene Cixous spent her childhood in France's former colony. ""Reveries of the... -
Zero's Neighbour: Sam Beckett by Helene Cixous 9780745644165
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14Zero's Neighbour is Helene Cixous's tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett. In this unabashedly personal... -
Helene Cixous: Writing the Feminine (Expanded Edition) by Verena Andermatt Conley
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.28Born in Algeria in 1937, Helene Cixous achieved world fame for her short stories, criticism, and fictionalized autobiography (Dedans, 1969). Her work quickly became controversial because it frankly... -
HeLeNe Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing by Nicholas Royle 9781526160454
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.18This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous (1937-), focusing on key motifs, such as dreams, the supernatural, literature, psychoanalysis,... -
Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic Helene Cixous (Paris VIII University) 9780745663289
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic is a compelling new volume in Helene Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volumes - Hemlock and Hyperdream, among others - will reconnect with... -
Angst Hélène Cixous 9781739371777
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive... -
Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva by Helene Cixous 9780816619412
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816619412Author Helene CixousFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
We Defy Augury by Hélène Cixous
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.95We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come ... the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Helene Cixous, in her eightieth... -
So Close Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745644363
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40In So Close, the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large... -
Hemlock Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745648682
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40A compelling work of autobiographical fiction, Helene Cixous's Hemlock weaves tragedy and comedy in its exploration of various human attachments: between an elderly but still truculent mother and her... -
Eve Escapes Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745650975
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40"I get up every day with one day more," says Eve, the writer's 97-year-old mother. She is escaping into the New Life and the writer must race to catch up. As things slip away and fall into... -
Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745653914
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40In 2009, the writer-narrator finds a Box. Within it lie the pages of her very first manuscript, pages she thought she had long since thrown away. Le Prenom de Dieu was the text that marked the start... -
Death Shall Be Dethroned: Los, A Chapter, the Journal Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9781509500659
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Death 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,... -
Encounters: Conversations on Life and Writing Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745653877
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40"Isn't it ... particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?" Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. "[I]t's only in writing, on paper, ... that I reach the... -
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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Helene 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... -
The Third Body by 9780810126541
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.80In ""The Third Body"", the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist Helene Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical... -
Ava Carole Maso 9781628976557
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $18.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628976557Author Carole MasoFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint -
H. C. for Life, That Is to Say... by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35H. 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... -
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Forgotten Women: The Writers by Zing Tsjeng 9781788400183 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $7.60'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and... -
Opera: The Undoing of Women by Catherine Clement 9780816635269
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.10An 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... -
I'm Not Scared of You or Anything by Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781927380949
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14The characters in I'm not Scared of You or Anything are invigilators, fake martial arts experts, buskers, competitive pillow fighters, drug runners, and, of course, grad students. This collection of... -
Girl Imagined by Chance by Lance Olsen 9781573661034
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $19.98Lance Olsen's sixth novel, Girl Imagined by Chance, is a formally innovative, intensely lyrical novel about the way fictions can take over our lives. It tells the story of an unnamed cyber-journalist... -
The Feminine Subject Susan J. Hekman ( University of Texas at Arlington) 9780745687841
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.69In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of... -
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Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays by Paul A. Bove 9780822316497 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing... -
Ursa Major by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: $19.43Booksplease Price: $17.29Yves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth book published by Seagull Books, he explores in profound new ways the mysteries of human... -
The Hotel Eden by Beverley Bie Brahic 9781784106102
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20'Madame Martin will throw back her shutters at eight...' With these words Beverley Bie Brahic opens The Hotel Eden, a book about seeing the world. She moves through - Paris, the French provinces, the... -
Literature Is a Voyage of Discovery - Tom Bishop in Conversation with Donatien Grau by Tom Bishop
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58Tom Bishop has, for over sixty years, helped shape the literary, philosophical, cultural, artistic, and political conversation between Paris and New York. As professor and director of the Center for... -
The Overseer's Cabin by Edouard Glissant 9780803234796
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92With Edouard Glissant's The Fourth Century, the Village Voice observed, "we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of Martinique's scarred psyche and past, a lingering... -
Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion by Linda Martin Alcoff 9780253223043
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Feminist theory and reflections on sexuality and gender rarely make contact with contemporary continental philosophy of religion. Where they all come together, creative and transformative thinking... -
Apple Thieves Beverley Bie Brahic 9781800174290
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99'I am drawn to paintings that catch glimpses of ordinary people in rooms that lead to other rooms,' Beverley Bie Brahic says. Apple Thieves is full of such painterly moments, remembered or caught on... -
White Spirit by Betsy Wing
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92After answering a classified ad placed by an import-export company looking for energetic young men willing to take on responsibilities for its African branches-no diploma required-Victor finds... -
This Incredible Need to Believe Julia Kristeva 9780231219044
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.68"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics,... -
Ruth Beckermann Eszter Kondor 9783901644801
Booksplease Price: $10.89Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, who has been making films since the 1970s, has created an exciting and widely recognized body of essay and documentary films. Her work is both deeply personal and...