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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Cixous"”.
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Création et procréation : métaphores chez Hélène Cixous et Nancy Huston
… XXe siècle, « La venue à l’écriture » de Hélène Cixous (1977) et Journal de la création de Nancy Huston (1990). Au croisement de la réflexion sur la métaphore d’usage et des débats sur l’essence féminine dans la création littéraire, nous nous interrogeons sur le rôle que joue cette métaphore dans …
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An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hélène Cixous
… I turn to feminist post-structuralist Hélène Cixous. Cixous remains under-represented within eco-theoretical readings of post-structuralism, despite expanding interest in her contemporaries. Too material for social constructivism, and too textual for new materialism, Cixouss singular approach …
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Of poetic thinking : a 'pataphysical investigation of Cixous, Derrida and the Kabbalah
… Thinking: A 'Pataphysical Investigation of Cixous, Derrida and the Kabbalah" theorizes the aesthetics of, and contextualizes, two writing praxes concerned with interrogating a Eurocentric myth of Meaning, a regime of Truth, Authenticity and Representation; deconstructing an apparatus of …
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Reclaiming, narrating, and reinterpreting aspects of religion in Taos Amrouche, Hélène Cixous, and Assia Djebar
… Algerian women authors, Taos Amrouche, Hélène Cixous, and Assia Djebar, approach their respective religions and portray them in their works. Through textual evidence from their fictional works, I show how the problematic of religion in Algeria – where the three Abrahamic religions have been in …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… of Identity through Language in Hélène Cixous and the Self analyses the French author Hélène Cixous and her most recently published book, Love Itself in the Letterbox. The book cannot be said to fit into a specific genre but moves through a series of musings surrounding her personal …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… of Identity through Language in Hélène Cixous and the Self analyses the French author Hélène Cixous and her most recently published book, Love Itself in the Letterbox. The book cannot be said to fit into a specific genre but moves through a series of musings surrounding her personal …
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Frontières oniriques : étude de l'écriture du rêve chez Hélène Cixous (volet critique); suivi de Il ne restera plus rien du château ni du mal (volet création)
… réalité au sein de l’écriture onirique d’Hélène Cixous, et ce plus particulièrement à l’aide de ses œuvres Le Troisième corps (1970) et Rêvoir (2021). L’enjeu du brouillard se trouve également au centre de la création, Il ne restera plus rien du château ni du mal, qui succède à l’étude. Ce court …
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Sex, gender and genesis: A Cixousian exploration of language in the gay marriage debates
… in contemporary debates on gay marriage? Helene Cixous suggests that Western thought is organized around binary, hierarchical oppositions---the most fundamental of which are male over female and masculine over feminine. Language and its connections to psychological and her/historical origins are …
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(Re)Writing Woman with "The Laugh of the Medusa" and AntiOedipus
… long ignored due to fear of essentialization. Cixous argues: "…Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard" (8). Tattooing has transitioned from writing masculine group identity (gangs, prisoners, sailors, etc.) into writing …
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In Context
… writers bell hooks, Jane Tompkins, and Hélène Cixous are cited as influential to the initial exploration of my content. Artists discussed include Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Annette Messager, and Robert Rauschenberg. It is further shown how poetry and prose evolve as the catalyst for content …
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Iconoclast in the mirror.
… Adrienne Rich, and the poetic prose of Hélène Cixous provide textual examples of an evolving aesthetic in which the poet's self and world comprise multiple dynamic, open relationships supplanting one in which simple correspondences between signifiers and signifieds define selves isolated from …
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Fall Line: a work in progress
… critical theories of Jacques Lacan and Helena Cixous, which explores the exclusion of women from the cultural ideal, and their redefinition as cultural "others" in Western American Society. The novel incorporates three separate narratives: two first person narratives (Paula Tjunic and Kate …
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Hirsute bodies: the reclamation of the feminine in contemporary South African art
… to the theories of the French Feminists, Helene Cixous, Luce lrigaray and Julia Kristeva, who were the initial proponents of the idea of l 'ecriture feminine (feminine writing). The feminine text, which enjoyed currency in the seventies, is again relevant for the analysis of these artists' work …
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Something Gold Steps Out of the Skin
… me, without the fear of ever reaching a limit” (Cixous, 893). Within the manuscript a voice emerges byway of comparison/contrast, and then ingestion/insemination of things ‘Other.’ That voice claims desire as the fruitful path.</p>
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Medusa City: A minority run Design Institute in Postcolonial Milieu
… reductionist gaze to appropriate Helene Cixous' articulation of the Medusa to represent this misunderstood ethos. The laughing Medusa revels in third world complexity and hybridization, thereby effectively bypassing the smoothening tendencies of the dialectic and allowing for a …
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Museum-Making in Women's Poetry: How Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson Confront the Time of History
In The Newly Born Woman, Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement note that Michelet and Freud "both thought that the repressed past survives in woman; woman, more than anyone else, is dedicated to reminiscence" (5). Whether or not this is true of woman, that expectation of her—as keeper of the past—has …
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SPEAKING OF GENDER, LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY: WRITING THE PERSONAL
… Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous. The sections that follow use two scripts for live performance to illustrate the 'predicament' of the female performer and the importance of myth to women's artistic practice. My conclusion, and the thesis as a whole, is a demonstration of, …
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The head knows what lies near the heart : an anatomy in stories and accompanying essay
… principles of the short story and Hélène Cixous écriture féminine to further analyse my work.
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The relationship between technology and the body in Muriel Rukeyser's poetry
… of dynamism and creativity anticipated Hélène Cixous‟s ideas of feminist writing.</p>
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"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, and the "Feminine" Body in the Lyrics of Tori Amos
… Further, French feminists such as Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva use the linguistic concept of intertextuality to explain certain poetic uses of language that might cause what Luce Irigaray calls “irruption of the semiotic chora”—moments within language where boundaries in the semiotic …
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