Hélène Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Please join us for a talk by Prof. Nicholas Royle (Sussex), the first of our seminar series on Literature and Politics. Professor Royle will be talking to us about his new book:
Hélène Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing
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 Inside (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.
Professor Nicholas Royle is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Sussex. He is also a novelist.
Contact name: Akane Kawakami
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