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Title: Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Helene Cixous, Sarah Cornell, Susan Sellers ISBN: 0-231-07659-2 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hard to categorize (a good thing)
Comment: I knew of Cixous, had a general idea of her doing work toward a kind of ecriture feminine (feminine writing), but hadn't actually read her writing until I read this book while tanning in Southern New Jersey this past June. This book was on a recommended reading list for a writing class I was taking, though I think I'm the only one who read it; it's not at all your usual writer's-help book, but that's good. It is dense, genre-breaking academic-poetic writing that I ended up having to get out of the sun to read. This book is comprised of a set of essays originally given as lectures, separated into "The School of the Dead," "The School of Dreams," and "The School of Roots." The writers that resonate with Cixous are "descenders, explorers of the lowest and the deepest," (a concept introduced in "The School of the Dead") and include some I knew -- Kafka, Dostoevsky, Genet, and Ingeborg Bachmann, and others I hadn't -- Clarice Lispector and Marina Tsvetaeva. I see there's a Derrida "endorsement" both here on the Amazon website and on the cover of the book, and so, as you would expect, this book's meditation on the connection between language and desire, between writing and the body, some wordplay and deconstruction of the very shape of letters or the names of writers is what you might expect from a French poststructuralist. What set this book apart for me was its attitude toward the works cited. Cixous doesn't use literature to promote flashy ideas; it's seriously personal work, a "Schooling" on thinking about one's own writing, she's actually interested in defining "truth." The first part of "The Dead," especially the kind of cataloguing of "deaths-as-beginnings" was fascinating. I found the "School of Roots" section absolutely packed with virtuoso readings and ideas. Her closing, "Toward a book without an author" is the perfect payoff culmination of her/our hard work from the pages that preceded it. You'll have to read it yourself to see if you "get it" / agree with it. Now I'm inspired to read more Cixous.
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Title: The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Fly Fishing, Trout, & Old Men by Harry Middleton ISBN: 0871088746 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context by Stanley J. Grenz, John R. Franke ISBN: 0664257690 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Psychotherapy: An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice by Anthony Bateman, Dennis Brown, Jonathan Pedder ISBN: 0415205697 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: The Heart of Psychotherapy: A Journey into the Mind and Office of the Therapist at Work by George Weinberg ISBN: 0312141106 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life by Dan B. Allender ISBN: 1578563917 Publisher: Waterbrook Press Pub. Date: 19 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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