News and stories about Helene Cixous

Burned Toast and Coffee: My writing class

The Third Chapter - Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Coming to Writing and Other Essays - Helene Cixous River Flow - David Whyte Dead Man Walking - Sr. Helen Prejean A Moveable Feast -Ernest Hemmingway To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf ...

Posted 07/25/2010 at 06:28AM EST

Bitsy's Blogging, and a bit of my own « Mind Your Language

Upon reading Jeff's comment, I immediately thought of a couple of comments by Hélène Cixous. How important Jeff's question is, don't you think? First, Cixous advises (women): So, I do not resound as much for painting, as for writing, ...

Posted 07/22/2010 at 06:59PM EST

TEDWomen: Brilliant or Belittling? | The BrandForward Blog

As a man, I'd feel automatically excluded from a TED women talk – as if I were intruding on a private space. However, I've listened to feminist theorists like Hélène Cixous and Toril Moi and been blown away by their cogent ideas. ...

Posted 07/21/2010 at 12:45PM EST

Pluma Fronteriza - Chicano(a) & Latino(a) Literature - El Paso ...

Living: Roberto Tejada, Rosmarie Waldrop, Susan Howe, Carole Maso, Helene Cixous, Cynthia Cruz are some living poets/writers who I turn to for inspiration. Walked on: Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Blanchot, Lorine Niedecker, ...

Posted 07/20/2010 at 11:06AM EST

July 19-August 1: Lisa Businovski

Inspired by the work of French feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous, this contemporary chamber opera is a delicate but charged exploration of preparing to take risk, navigating the unknown, and encountering dis/grace, com/passion and ...

Posted 07/19/2010 at 06:36AM EST

Suheir Hammad – magnificent poetry « Beyond The Fringe

Suheir is possessed by the muse – when she performs it is the whole woman, the laughing medusa of Helene Cixous, the frightening yet irresistible gypsy who leads us to prophecy with a toss of the head – it is up to us if we wish to ...

Posted 07/18/2010 at 02:31PM EST

Sex After Sixty: How the book came to be

From the poet philosopher Hélène Cixous's Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing: Crossing the frontiers to the other world without transition, at the stroke of the signifier, this is what dreams permit us to do and why, ...

Posted 07/17/2010 at 03:33PM EST

#126 On Quotes « Space Nomad

Helene Cixous. I've discussed this elsewhere, but I feel that this quote represents something fundamental about the way western civilization structures itself. It's a rather long quote, of course, but its fundamental to my personal ...

Posted 07/16/2010 at 01:14AM EST

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The ...

The paper is an attempt to analyze the novel by Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932) and the novel by Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale (1985) from a gender perspective using Hélène Cixous's ideas as the theoretical foundation. ...

Posted 07/13/2010 at 11:50PM EST

In the beginning, there is an end. Don't be afraid; it's your ...

In the beginning, there is an end. Don't be afraid; it's your death that is dying. Then: all the beginnings. When you have come to the end, only then can Beginning come to you. Helene Cixous.

Posted 07/11/2010 at 03:35PM EST

Petra's Place | Senses of Cinema

Plus, it took it to its final extension (in the character of Marlene), what Helene Cixous describes as the last stage of hysteria: a character's muteness. (3) Thinking of the mute Marlene (Irm Hermann), Petra's “slave,” does dovetail ...

Posted 07/11/2010 at 02:27PM EST

SmartDonkey: In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

... such as Habermas and Althusser, psychoanalysts such as Julia Kristeva, legal theorists such as Ronald Dworkin, literary and social critics including Edward Said, Wayne Booth, Donald Davie, Hélène Cixous and Jean-Joseph Goux. ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:56PM EST

In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

... such as Habermas and Althusser, psychoanalysts such as Julia Kristeva, legal theorists such as Ronald Dworkin, literary and social critics including Edward Said, Wayne Booth, Donald Davie, Hélène Cixous and Jean-Joseph Goux. ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:56PM EST

SmartDonkey: French Feminist Theory: An Introduction

These are explored through the work of a wide range of theorists: Simone de Beauvoir, Chantal Chawaf, Helene Cixous, Catherine Clement, Christine Delphy, Marguerite Duras, Colette Guillaumin, Madeleine Gagnon, Luce Irigaray, ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:55PM EST

French Feminist Theory: An Introduction

These are explored through the work of a wide range of theorists: Simone de Beauvoir, Chantal Chawaf, Helene Cixous, Catherine Clement, Christine Delphy, Marguerite Duras, Colette Guillaumin, Madeleine Gagnon, Luce Irigaray, ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 10:55PM EST

SmartDonkey: The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader

Essays by: Chinua Achebe, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Basil Bernstein, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Pierre Bourdieu, Edward K. Braithwaite, Judith Butler, Deborah Cameron, Helene Cixous, Brian Cox, Benedetto Croce, ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 09:55PM EST

cafe selavy: Writing (Through) The Body

The French feminist critic, Helene Cixous, makes a contrapuntal extension of Woolf in "The Laugh of the Medusa": "Women must write through their bodies. . . . They must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 11:53AM EST

cafe selavy: Writing (Through) The Body

The French feminist critic, Helene Cixous, makes a contrapuntal extension of Woolf in "The Laugh of the Medusa": "Women must write through their bodies. . . . They must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 11:53AM EST

cafe selavy: Writing (Through) The Body

The French feminist critic, Helene Cixous, makes a contrapuntal extension of Woolf in "The Laugh of the Medusa": "Women must write through their bodies. . . . They must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 11:53AM EST

Literary Translation and Different View Points or Theories ...

Hélène Cixous, Clarice Lispector and the ambivalence of fidelity”. In Bassnett and Trivedi 1999. 141-161. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. 1989. The Empire Writes Back. Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures. ...

Posted 07/10/2010 at 03:31AM EST

Untied States of Am: God Is The World

Helene Cixous, From the Scene of Unconscious to the Scene of History. I did not know where this card had come from, but I knew it had been on my fridge in some pre-divorce apartment, and that I had saved it, and, in the past few months, ...

Posted 07/08/2010 at 11:28PM EST

Literary Translation and Different View Points or Theories | What ...

Hélène Cixous, Clarice Lispector and the ambivalence of fidelity”. In Bassnett and Trivedi 1999. 141-161. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. 1989. The Empire Writes Back. Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures. ...

Posted 07/08/2010 at 11:01PM EST

Bonnie MacAllister: My French Teacher Identity and French ...

Helene Cixous, and Mme. Agnes Varda while abroad with the IEE. It has been 13 years since I've stepped on those streets, mounted stairs, raced for the last metro, and I am excited to film lessons for my current students while on site. ...

Posted 07/07/2010 at 11:32PM EST

flip flopping joy » Blog Archive » place marker

Some times, there was even a bit of the French Feminists (Helene Cixous was the big one). Women of color feminists were *always* restricted to Audre Lorde and bell hooks–and then we only read those women if we stayed on schedule through ...

Posted 07/06/2010 at 12:38AM EST

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Some times, there was even a bit of the French Feminists (Helene Cixous was the big one). Women of color feminists were *always* restricted to Audre Lorde and bell hooks–and then we only read those women if we stayed on schedule through ...

Posted 07/06/2010 at 12:38AM EST

flip flopping joy » Blog Archive » place marker

Some times, there was even a bit of the French Feminists (Helene Cixous was the big one). Women of color feminists were *always* restricted to Audre Lorde and bell hooks–and then we only read those women if we stayed on schedule through ...

Posted 07/06/2010 at 12:38AM EST

Hélène Cixous: «Manhattan» « Glarean Magazin

Als ich entschied, das Buch von Hélène Cixous zu besprechen, wusste ich nichts, aber auch gar nichts über die Autorin. Das ist nichts Neues, denn viele Autoren, deren Bücher ich bis jetzt besprochen habe, sind einer weiteren Leserschaft ...

Posted 07/04/2010 at 10:01PM EST

Hélène Cixous: «Manhattan» « Glarean Magazin

Als ich entschied, das Buch von Hélène Cixous zu besprechen, wusste ich nichts, aber auch gar nichts über die Autorin. Das ist nichts Neues, denn viele Autoren, deren Bücher ich bis jetzt besprochen habe, sind einer weiteren Leserschaft ...

Posted 07/04/2010 at 10:01PM EST

Hélène Cixous: «Manhattan» « Glarean Magazin

Als ich entschied, das Buch von Hélène Cixous zu besprechen, wusste ich nichts, aber auch gar nichts über die Autorin. Das ist nichts Neues, denn viele Autoren, deren Bücher ich bis jetzt besprochen habe, sind einer weiteren Leserschaft ...

Posted 07/04/2010 at 10:01PM EST

Hélène Cixous: «Manhattan» « Glarean Magazin

Als ich entschied, das Buch von Hélène Cixous zu besprechen, wusste ich nichts, aber auch gar nichts über die Autorin. Das ist nichts Neues, denn viele Autoren, deren Bücher ich bis jetzt besprochen habe, sind einer weiteren Leserschaft ...

Posted 07/04/2010 at 10:01PM EST

Writes Like A Girl « Shitty First Drafts

French feminists like Julie Kristeva, Helene Cixous, and Luce Irigaray, coined the term Écriture féminine to describe a writerly voice that is distinctively feminine. That distinctive voice, however, was more about rejecting the notion ...

Posted 07/01/2010 at 03:58PM EST