“Columbia University Press advertisement for Hélène Cixous, ’Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint’, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic”. London Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2005, p. 21.
Jacques Derrida
Standard Name: Derrida, Jacques
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Hélène Cixous | HC
was a close personal friend of Jacques Derrida
— who, like her, was a French citizen and a Jew born in Algeria. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | The book is a kind of kaleidoscope of splintered biography and textual commentary, emphasizing its subject's Jewish
heritage. It uses Derrida
's confessions, published ten years earlier as a gloss for another text altogether... |
Literary responses | Rosalind Coward | Four years after its publication, a reviewer for Contemporary Sociology called this book the best available introduction in the English language to the semiotic structuralism of Saussure
, Lévi-Strauss
, and Lacan
; the structural... |
Literary responses | Mary Shelley | When theoretical critic Barbara Johnson
composed an essay on MS
in 1980 she was choosing, for a symposium on Jacques Derrida
, a relatively unknown topic—yet for the rest of her career she found she... |
Author summary | Hélène Cixous | HC
, a French writer and academic, is best known to English-speaking audiences as a literary critic associated with French feminism of the 1970s and 80s, and as proponent of écriture féminine. She herself... |
Reception | Nadine Gordimer | This book's reception was polarized along political lines. The Soweto riots (which began three years before this novel appeared) were a factor when it was banned. When the ban was lifted in 1980, NG
was... |
Reception | Julia Kristeva | According to Eric Homberger
in the Times Literary Supplement, the Sociology of Literature Conference held at the University of Essex
was dominated by the names of Lacan
, Derrida
, and Kristeva
. Homberger, Eric. “The Class of Lacan”. Times Literary Supplement, 28 July 1978, p. 854. 854 |
Textual Features | Hélène Cixous | Critic Frédéric Regard
calls HC
's critical process here sur-lining. Regard, Frédéric. “Derrida Un-Cut: Cixous’s Art of Hearts”. Paragraph, Vol. 30 , No. 2, 2007, pp. 1-16. 1 Regard, Frédéric. “Derrida Un-Cut: Cixous’s Art of Hearts”. Paragraph, Vol. 30 , No. 2, 2007, pp. 1-16. 1-2 |
Textual Features | Hélène Cixous | Hyperdream posits a line of communication to the dead, and explores other mysterious lines of connection. One of these is a bed bought by Eve, the semi-mythical mother of the narrator, Hélène, from someone called... |
Textual Features | Luce Irigaray | Its controversial element was the way it merged gender politics with established psychoanalytic theory. It probes the problematic relation between women as speaking subjects and language as a patriarchal institution. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Textual Production | Hélène Cixous | HC
's memoir Portrait de Jacques Derrida
en jeune saint Juif appeared; it was translated into English by Beverley Bie Brahic
(as Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint) in 2003. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Iris Murdoch | Her effort to put her thoughts on art, morality, and reality into a unified and coherent form is a journey of the intellect that ranges through investigations of the powers of art, the mind, and... |
Timeline
1967: This year the French philosopher and critic...
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1967
This year the French philosopher and critic Jacques Derrida
issued three of his best-known works: La voix et la phénomène, L'Ecriture et la différence, and De la Grammatologie.
Attridge, Derek, and Thomas Baldwin. “Jacques Derrida”. Guardian Weekly, 15–21 Oct. 2004, p. 30.
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1967: This year the French philosopher and critic...
Writing climate item
1967
This year the French philosopher and critic Jacques Derrida
issued three of his best-known works: La voix et la phénomène, L'Ecriture et la différence, and De la Grammatologie.
Attridge, Derek, and Thomas Baldwin. “Jacques Derrida”. Guardian Weekly, 15–21 Oct. 2004, p. 30.
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