Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism by Peggy Kamuf - 9798765132036

Understanding Cixous, Understanding ModernismAuthor(s): Peggy Kamuf\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9798765132036, 979-8765132036\nSynopsis\nHlne Cixous is well-known as a reader of modernist writers: Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Faulkner, Bachmann and others, while her own fiction writing forges many new directions in literature.\n\nForemost readers of the work of Hlne Cixous consider new interpretations of her vast literary and theoretical work, examining its relation and non-relation to modernism. Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism features an extended new interview with Cixous, conducted for the volume, in which she reflects on her relation to the critical category of 'modernism,' alongside a previously untranslated piece by the author.\n\n As with other volumes in the series, Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism follows a three-part structure. Essays in the first section examine individu.