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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Hélène Cixous"”.
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Création et procréation : métaphores chez Hélène Cixous et Nancy Huston
… du 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 …
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An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hélène Cixous
… an ethics, 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 …
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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 …
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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)
… rêve et 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 …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… The Negotiation 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 …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… The Negotiation 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 …
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In Context
… feminist 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 …
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Iconoclast in the mirror.
… Auden, 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 …
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The head knows what lies near the heart : an anatomy in stories and accompanying essay
… Cortázar’s principles of the short story and Hélène Cixous écriture féminine to further analyse my work.
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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 …
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The relationship between technology and the body in Muriel Rukeyser's poetry
… a source of dynamism and creativity anticipated Hélène Cixous‟s ideas of feminist writing.</p>
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Recognizing the Twentieth-Century Love Story
… itself more closely with the characteristics Hélène Cixous ascribes to <em>l'écriture féminine</em>, such love stories privilege characters who know and are true to themselves in all their uncontained, expansive, complex glory, and punish those who withhold recognition of themselves or others …
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Every Frame Counts: Creative Practice and Gender in Direct Animation
… provided by Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous. This thesis proposes, via interaction between these three axes of research, that women film artists, operating independently, are able to create a female imaginary that represents women and is recognised by them, by constructing …
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The feminist postmodern fantastic: sexed, gendered, and sexual identities
… and sexual identity. The selected authors Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter represent distinct and diverse, culturally specific, literary and feminist traditions, reformulating the relationship between modernism and postmodernism in different ways and with …
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Colette et sa venue à l’écriture. Le phallocentrisme, les oppositions binaires et l’écriture féminine dans le cycle des Claudine
… retraite sentimentale, með hliðsjón af kenningum Hélène Cixous um stöðu konunnar gagnvart karlinum, með það fyrir ljósi að skoða mögulegan mun á persónum og efnistökum í textum skrifuðum undir áhrifum frá Willy og þeim sem Colette skrifar ein. Þegar Colette skrifaði undir áhrifum eiginmanns síns …
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After Fragmentation: Mental Health and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature
… later demands by feminist theorists such as Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray to explore a more experimental, bodily form of women’s writing. I also turn to disability studies to contextualize my discussion of fragmented minds and bodies and to explore the implications of imbuing physical and …
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Bodycloth in Performance Art
… alongside critical feminist theorists such as Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Laura Mulvey, Julia Kristeva, and Judith Butler. Early chapters examine semiotic processes, whereby textiles in relation to the body are staged and framed in terms of their meaning-making capabilities in performance …
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The Deconstruction of Hell: A History of the Resignatio ad Infernum Tradition
… the work of Levinas, Derrida, and especially Hélène Cixous. Finally, in a concluding chapter, I argue that this tradition, though residing until the twentieth century primarily in a theological register, has much in common with two political theorists influenced by Levinas and Foucault, Judith …
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Playing Gender In the Dramatic Works of Griselda Gambaro
… with gender and performance by such theorists as Hélène Cixous and Judith Butler, I explore the concept of gender as a construction and the underlying reasons that govern its performance within these two plays. While previous approaches have primarily expounded on the playwright's allegorical …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… reality, in revolt against gender norms and what Hélène Cixous would classify as “phallologocentric” ideals of female sexual purity. In both Breath, Eyes, Memory and Annie John, three generations of women are represented to provide an evolutionary perspective that clearly depicts a past, present, …
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