{"product_id":"9780745668505","title":"Helene Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography and Love","description":"This book is a clear and accessible introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had a major impact on feminist theory and practice. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Sellers, a major scholar on Cixous, provides a lucid account of Cixous's theoretical position, and in particular her distinctive theory of an \u003ci\u003e'écriture féminine'.\u003c\/i\u003e She discusses the development of Cixous's literary \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of this theory, and analyses a selection of the works in detail to illustrate the different stages in Cixous's writing career.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing on the key novels and plays, Sellers explores a range of issues and themes central to her work; the correlation between the death of Cixous's own father and her 'coming-into-being' as a writer; the psychological process of separation and individuation and the creation of a female authorial self; the discovery of the other and the dramatization of love; the delineation\/depiction of an alternative form of relationship between self and other which would have a significance in a wider sphere than that of the merely personal.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis much-needed book will be welcomed by students in literature and literary theory, feminism and women's studies, English and French studies and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121711661296,"sku":"9780745668505","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780745668505_p0.jpg?v=1763640532","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780745668505","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}