Readings The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva Hélène Cixous Edited, translated, and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley		$19.50 paper ISBN: 0-8166-1941-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1941-2 $58.50 cloth ISBN: 0-8166-1940-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1940-5
A leader in the feminist intellectual movement, Cixous presents this highly informative meditation on ethics and poetics which draws on philosophy and psychoanalysis. Hélène Cixous is the author of numerous works, including FirstDays of the Year (1998), The Newly Born Woman (1986), Manna: for the Mandelstams for the Mandelas (1994), and Reading with Clarice Lispector (1990). Verena Andermatt Conley was born and raised in Switzerland, where she grew up reading picturesque and adventurous portrayals of the great American wilderness. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of The War against the Beavers (2005) and the editor of Reading with Clarice Lispector (1990). 192 pages | 1991 Theory and History of Literature Series, volume 77