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Helene Cixous: Critical Impressions
by Regina Barreca, Lee A. Jacobus. 333 pgs.

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Introduction to the Series

Forword

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1: Life Makes Text from My Body: a Reading of Hélène Cixous' La Venue à L'écriture

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2: Le Père De Le Père De L'Ecriture: Writing Within the Secret Father

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3: The Medusa's Slip: Hélène Cixous and the Underpinnings of Écriture Féminine

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4: Hélène Cixous: Music Forever or Short Treatise on a Poetics for a Story to Be Sung

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5: Reading and Wrighting the Other: Critism as Facility

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6: Cixous' Concept of “brushig” as a Gift

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7: The Gift: Hélène Cixous and Jaques Derrida

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8: Hélène Cixous Names Woman, Mother, Other: “a Feminine Plural like Me”

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9: Cixous, Spivak, and Oppositional Theory

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10: Hélène Cixous:A Space Between-Women and (Their) Language

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11: Hélène Cixous and the of Portraying: on Portrait Du Solei

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12: Ariane Mnouchkine/Hélène Cixous: the Meeting of Two Chimaeras

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13: The Self and “other(S)” in Cixous' Sihanouk

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14: Bringing a Historical Caracter on Stage: L'Indiade

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15: Men More Than More

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16: The Critic as Playwright: Performig Hélène Cixous' Le Nom D'Oedipe

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The Helene Cixous Reader
by Susan Sellers. 232 pgs.

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This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts span twenty years of intellectual thought and demonstrate clearly the development of one of the most creative and brilliant minds of the twentieth century. With a foreword by Jacques Derrida, a preface by Cixous herself, and first-class editorial material by Susan Sellers, The Helene Cixous Reader is destined to become a key text of feminist writing.

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Foreword

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Preface

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

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Neutral

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Inside

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First Names of No One

The Newly Born Woman

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Breaths

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La—The (Feminine)

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Angst

To Live the Orange

(With) or the Art of Innocence

Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite

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The Book of Promethea

Extreme Fidelity

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The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk King of Cambodia

The Place of Crime the Place of Forgiveness

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Indiada or the India of Their Dreams

Manna to the Mandelstams to the Mandelas

Firstdays of the Year

Deluge

Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing

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Afterword

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Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing
by Helene Cixous, Mireille Calle-Gruber. 254 pgs.

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Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable prespicacity and electrifying poetic force are known world-wide. Unprecedented in its form and content this collection breaks new ground in the theory and practice of auto/biography. Cixous's creative reflections on the past provide occasion for scintillating forays into the future. The text includes: * an extended interview between Cixous and Calle-Gruber, exploring Cixous's creative and intellectual processes * a revealing collection of photographs taken from Cixous's family album, set against a poetic reflection by the author * selections from Cixous's private notebooks * a contribution by Jacques Derrida * original 'thing-pieces' by Calle-Gruber.

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We Are Already in the Jaws of the Book

Appendices

Excerpt 1:: Jacques Derrida, 'Fourmis', Lectures De La Différence Sexuelle

Excerpt 2:: Hélène Cixous, ‘quelle Heure Est-Il?’ Le Passage Des Frontières

Portrait of the Writing

Portrait of Writing Writing-Thinking

Cixous Genre Outlaw

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Hélène Cixous's Book of Hours, Book of Fortune

Albums and Legends

Hélène Cixous:

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Chronicle

Hélène Cixous, Bibliography

Aftermaths
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Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
by Helene Cixous, Sarah Cornell, Susan Sellers. 176 pgs.

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Previously Published Wellek Library Lectures

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The School of the Dead

The School of Roots

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5 .

Neuter
by Helene Cixous, Lorene M. Birden. 144 pgs.

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Introduction

Epigraphs

Players, Plays and Ghosts

Holocaust

Hazart-the Belly's Motive

And Mozart, Why?

"Can the Children Born of the Loss of Such as Be Called Light?"

(The Daskind Motive) the Child Named Light

The "S"Melting of the Genes

The Resmelting of the Genes

The Laying

A Note on Citations

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Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (Chap. 16 "Sorties" by Helene Cixous)
by David Lodge, Nigel Wood. 534 pgs.

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'in our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right' David Lodge This new edition of David Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theoryis fully revised and expanded to take account of the developments in theoretical contemporary literary criticism since the publication of the first edition in 1988. Building on the strengths of the first edition, this volume is designed to introduce the reader to the guiding concepts of present literary and cultural debate by presenting substantial extracts from the most seminal thinkers. As with the original edition there is a selection of the most important and representative work from the major schools in contemporary criticism. Concise introductions with updated suggestions for further reading give a context for each essay and the editors have provided footnotes that help explain the most difficult references. Both students and general readers are encouraged to identify for themselves links between essays, as the selection is ordered both historically and thematically.

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Foreword

Preface to the Second Edition

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Chapter 1: Ferdinand de Saussure

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Chapter 2: Walter Benjamin

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Chapter 3: Roman Jakobson

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Chapter 4: Jacques Lacan

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Chapter 5: Jacques Derrida

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Chapter 6: Mikhail Bakhtin

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Chapter 7: Tzvetan Todorov

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Chapter 8: Roland Barthes

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Chapter 9: Michel Foucault

Chapter 10: Wolfgang Iser

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Chapter 11: Julia Kristeva

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Chapter 12: Harold Bloom

Chapter 13: En D. Hirsch Jr.

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Chapter 14: M. H. Abrams

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Chapter 15: J. Hillis Miller

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Chapter 16: HéLène Cixous

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Chapter 17: Edward Said

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Chapter 18: Stanley Fish

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Chapter 19: Elaine Showalter

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Notes [references to 'This Volume' Are to the New Feminist Criticism (1985), Ed. Showalter.]

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Chapter 20: Paul de Man

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Chapter 21: Fredric Jameson

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Chapter 22: Terry Eagleton

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Chapter 23: Geoffrey Hartman

Chapter 24: Juliet Mitchell

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Chapter 25: Umberto Eco

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Chapter 26: Jean Baudrillard

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Chapter 27: Luce Irigaray

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Chapter 28: Patrocinio P. Schweickart

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Chapter 29: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Chapter 30: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Chapter 31: Stephen Greenblatt

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Chapter 32: Jerome Mcgann

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Stigmata: Escaping Texts
by Helene Cixous. 198 pgs.

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Hegrave;leacute;ne Cixous -- author, playwright and French feminist theorist -- is a key figure in twentieth-century literary theory. Stigmata brings together her most recent essays for the first time. Acclaimed for her intricate and challenging writing style, Cixous presents a collection of texts that get away -- escaping the reader, the writers, the book. Cixous's writing pursues authors such as Stendhal, Joyce, Derrida, and Rembrandt, da Vinci, Picasso -- works that share an elusive movement in spite of striking differences. Along the way these essays explore a broad range of poetico-philosophical questions that have become characteristic of Cixous' work: * love's labours lost and found * feminine hours * autobiographies of writing * the prehistory of the work of art Stigmata goes beyond theory, becoming an extraordinary writer's testimony to our lives and times.

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Illustrations

Reading in Painting: Reading in Painting

1: Bathsheba or the Interior Bible

Translator’s Notes

2: Without End, No, State of Drawingness, No, Rather: the Executioner’s Taking Off

Ringing in the Feminine Hour: Ringing in the Feminine Hour

3: In October 1991…

4: Hiss of the Axe

5: What is It O’clock? or the Door (we Never Enter)

6: Love of the Wolf

7: ‘mamãe, Disse Ele,’ or Joyce’s Second Hand

Going off Writing: Going off Writing

8: Unmasked!

9: Writing Blind

10: My Algeriance, in Other Words: to Depart Not to Arrive from Algeria

From My Menagerie to Philosophy: From My Menagerie to Philosophy

11: Shared at Dawn

12: Stigmata, or Job the Dog

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Freudians and Feminists ("Helene Cixous's Appeal" begins on p. 134)
by Edith Kurzweil. 223 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

1: The Early Freudians' Views of Women

2: The Freudian Feminists Cross the Atlantic

Conclusion

3: From the Quiet 1950s to the Storm in the 1960s and 1970s

4: Feminists' Views of Freud in the 1970s

5: Jacques Lacan and French Feminism

6: From American Feminism to French Psychoanalytic Feminism

Conclusion

7: Feminism in Germany

8: Postmodern Feminism in America

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About the Book and Author

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Traveling Theory: France and the United States ("Helene Cixous across the Atlantic: The Medusa as Projection?" begins on p. 99)
by Ieme Van Der Poel, Sophie Bertho, Ton Hoenselaars. 180 pgs.

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France and the United States in Contemporary Intellectual History

Why French Has Become like Any Other Foreign Language in the United States

America and "Deleuze"

The Revolutionary Signifier and the American Challenge

Deconstruction and America

Hélène Cixous across the Atlantic: The Medusa as Projection?

Returning the Gaze: The American Response to the French Critique of Ocularcentrism

The Franco-American Dialogue: A Late-Twentieth- Century Reassessment

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Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction ("Helene Cixous" begins on p. 199)
by Rosemarie Putnam Tong. 360 pgs.

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In this second edition of her 1989 survey on feminist theory, Rosemarie Tong provides a more comprehensive & substantially redrawn map of twentieth-century feminist thinking. Besides providing up-to-date coverage of liberal, radical (libertarian & cultural), & Marxist-socialist schools of feminism, she covers psychoanalytic, existentialist, & postmodern feminism. All the chapters have been rethought & new chapters on ecofeminism & multicultural & global feminism have been added. Contents: Introduction. Liberal Feminism. Radical Feminism: Libertarian & Cultural Perspectives. Marxist-Socialist Feminism. Psychoanalytic & Gender Feminism. Existentialist Feminism. Postmodern Feminism. Multicultural & Global Feminism. Ecofeminism. Conclusion.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Diversity of Feminist Thinking

Chapter One: Liberal Feminism

Conclusion

Chapter Two: Radical Feminism: Libertarian and Cultural Perspectives

Chapter Three: Marxist and Socialist Feminism

Conclusion

Chapter Four: Psychoanalytic and Gender Feminism

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Chapter Five: Existentialist Feminism

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Chapter Six: Postmodern Feminism

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Chapter Seven: Multicultural and Global Feminism

Chapter Eight: Ecofeminism

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Conclusion:: Margins and Centers

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Contemporary Feminist Utopianism ("Helene Cixous and Libidinal Femininity" begins on p. 112)
by Lucy Sargisson. 258 pgs.

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Contemporary Feminist Utopianism explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and post structuralist deconstruction. Utopian thinking is offered as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptualizing its current situation. This book provides an exploration of, and exercise in, utopian thought. Divided into three parts, part one is concerned with approaches to utopianism. The approach taken to a phenomenon or idea informs the way that phenomenon or idea will be conceptualized. Different ways of approaching utopianism are examined and challenged. The function of utopian thought, it is suggested, is profoundly transgressive; it provokes paradigm shifts in consciousness. By reference to debates in contemporary feminism and through an exploration of the difference between utopian and poststructuralist thought, part two illustrates that this approach is the most appropriate when conceptualizing contemporary feminism. The third part of the study incorporates a thematic discussion of feminist utopian literature. A new and challenging entry into the debates between feminism and postmodernism, Contemporary Feminist Urtopianism challenges some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory today. It offers a new way forward to those frustrated with traditional academic approaches to the world.

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Series Editors’ Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Approaching Utopianism

1: Form-Based and Content-Based Approaches to Utopianism

2: Function-Based Approaches to Utopianism

Part II: New Approaches and a New Utopianism

3: Feminism

4: Utopia as No Place

Part III: Utopianism and Transgression

5: Feminist Utopian Transgression of the Spirit/Matter Relation

6: Feminist Utopian Transgression of the Self/Other Relation

7: Feminist Utopian Transgression of Codes and Genre

Conclusion

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Helene Cixous's Improper Name, in The Romanic Review
by Mairead Hanrahan. 17 pgs.

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Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous
by Emma Wilson. 212 pgs.

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Can fictions of desire determine real pleasures? Do texts regulate the performance of our sexual identities? In Sexuality and the Reading Encounter, Emma Wilson offers a new account of the intimate relations between reading, identity, and identification. Interweaving theoretical debate with analysis of texts by Proust, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous, her study reveals the formative potential and transferential pleasures of the reading encounter.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

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1: The Reading Encounter

2: Identity and Identification

3: Reading Albertine's Sexuality; Or, 'Why Not Think of Marcel Simply as a Lesbian?'

4: 'La Passion Selon H.C.': Reading in the Feminine

5: 'La Chair ouverte, blessÃÂ©e'

Concluding Remarks

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Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured ("The Case of Cixous" begins on p. 71)
by Susan C. Jarratt. 155 pgs.

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PREFACE

Introduction: Redefining Classical Rhetoric

1: The First Sophists: History and Historiography

2: Between Mythos and Logos

3: The First Sophists and Feminism: Discourses of the "Other"

4: Sophistic Pedagogy, Then and Now

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WORKS CITED

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Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources ("Helene Cixous (1937-)" begins on p. 95)
by Michael G. Moran, Michelle Ballif. 426 pgs.

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Much work has been done on rhetoric and rhetorical theory in the 20th century, with scientists discussing the rhetoric of the scientific method and philosophers debating the rhetoric of the metaphysical tradition. This reference summarizes major trends in rhetoric during the last hundred years. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 40 20th- century rhetoricians, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Edward P. J. Corbett, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Walter J. Ong, and I. A. Richards. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, an analysis of the figure's rhetorical theory, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. The volume concludes with extensive bibliographical material.

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INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FRANK AYDELOTTE (1880-1956)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

MIKHAIL BAKHTIN (1895-1975)

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ROLAND GÉRARD BARTHES (1915-1980)

JAMES A. BERLIN (1942-1994)

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ANN E. BERTHOFF (1924- )

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WAYNE C. BOOTH (1921- )

CONCLUSION

JAMES BRITTON: (1908-1994)

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GERTRUDE BUCK: (1871-1922)

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KENNETH DUVA BURKE: (1897-1993)

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FRANCIS CHRISTENSEN (1902-1970)

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HÉLÈNE CIXOUS (1937- )

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ROBERT J. CONNORS (1951- )

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EDWARD P. J. CORBETT (1919-1998)

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FRANK J. D'ANGELO (1928- )

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PAUL DE MAN (1919-1983)

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JACQUES DERRIDA (1930-)

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PETER ELBOW (1935- )

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JANET EMIG (1928- )

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LINDA FLOWER (1944- )

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MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926-1984)

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ERNESTO GRASSI (1902-1992)

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JÜRGEN HABERMAS (1929- )

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WINIFRED HORNER (1922-)

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JAMES L. KINNEAVY (1920-1999)

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ALBERT KITZHABER (1915- )

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RICHARD A. LANHAM (1936--)

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ANDREA A. LUNSFORD (1942- )

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JAMES MOFFETT (1929-1996)

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DONALD M. MURRAY (1924- )

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RICHARD OHMANN (1931- )

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WALTER J. ONG (1912- )

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CHAÏM PERELMAN (1912-1984)

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I. A. RICHARDS (1893-1979)

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MINA SHAUGHNESSY (1924-1978)

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STEPHEN E. TOULMIN (1922- )

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VICTOR J. VITANZA (1940- )

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Richard M. Weaver (1911-1963)

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W. ROSS WINTEROWD (1930- )

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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The Contemporary Novel in France (Chap. 9 "Helene Cixous")
by William Thompson. 420 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction: The Contemporary Novel in France: A Generation of Writing and Criticism

Part I. Continuing "Traditions" and Changing Styles

1: Autobiographical Fictions

2: Julien Green

3: Julien Gracq

4: Marguerite Duras

5: Robert Pinget

Part II. Innovations in Language and Form

6: Philippe Sollers

7: Jean Ricardou

8: Jacques Roubaud

9: Hélène Cixous

10: Jean Echenoz

Part III. Writing, History, and Myth

11: Elie Wiesel

12: Andrée Chedid

13: Michel Tournier

14: Patrick Modiano

15: Monique Wittig

Part IV. New Narratives, New Traditions

16: Benoîte Groult

17: Dominique Fernandez

18: Yann Queffélec

19: Patrick Drevet

20: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

General Bibliography

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