Reflets Réciproques: A Prismatic Reading of Stéphane Mallarmé and Hélène Cixous

ISBN-13: 9780820479187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 193 str.

Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara

Opis

Reflets reciproques: A Prismatic Reading of Stephane Mallarme and Helene Cixous evokes the refractory aspect of a prism that bends and deflects light in order to produce a spectrum of twentieth-century thought emanating from the late nineteenth-century French literary avant-garde. Because the works of Mallarme and Cixous are often described as hermetic and illisible, Jacques Derrida intervenes to play the role of intermediary through his separate writings on these poets. Important questions arise: How does the elliptical writing of Mallarme relate to the hyperbolic writing of Cixous? What common strategies emerge and how do these strategies address the critical areas of sexual difference and political testimony for each writer?"

O autorze

The Author: Pamela Marie Hoffer received her Ph.D. in French literature from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College. She currently teaches French at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She has published numerous articles in academic journals and presented papers in the United States, Europe, and North Africa.