Philippines

Informationen zum Autor Hélène Cixous is one of the world's leading writers. She is founder and former director of the Centre de Recherches en Études Féminines at Paris VIII University Klappentext Philippines is Hélène 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 with her brother 'Pete', and literary evocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novel Peter Ibbetson. Amid telepathic conversations, real or imagined, and life events uncannily answering one another from a distance, Cixous's dense evocative journey ceaselessly 'returns to its starting point' and, like the twin almonds in one shell evoked by the title, reveals intimate, secret bonds between scenes and beings, real and fictional. Its interpretive sharpness delivered with stylistic elegance and candour will make this study typical of Cixous's art, which plies between literature and criticism, appealing not only to scholars and critics interested in psychoanalysis, autobiography and the act of reading, but also to a broader readership captivated by the hallucinatory coincidences between life, dream and fiction, when 'Reality is the dream. The dream is the true reality'. Zusammenfassung Philippines is Helene Cixous's reverie or 'truedreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy!autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris! childhoodand adult life! shared with her brother 'Pete'! and literaryevocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novelPeter Ibbetson. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Author's Note Philippines Onomatelepathy Notes

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• Authors: H Cixous, Hel Ne Cixous, Hel?ne Cixous, Helene Cixous, Hélène Cixous, Helene (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University Cixous, Hlne Cixous, Cixous Helene
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2010
• EAN: 9780745648156
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-4815-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: general, Biography: writers, childhood, memory, philosophy