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Nicholas Royle's funny, insightful, elegant, erudite book is not only a creative and thought-provoking, highly sensitive reading of Cixous's literary oeuvre, but is also - to adopt the idiom shared by Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida - a ULO (unidentifiable literary object) in its own right. Royle's book both introduces the English-language reader to the distinctive pleasures of Cixous's inventive writing and takes the reader on an exhilarating linguistic adventure that reveals how apparently ordinary English words contain secret treasures and startling insights. Elissa Marder, Emory University

'Royle considers Cixous's work in relation to that of authors that she has herself read and analyzed, in particular Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida. The author states that his study is intended to be accessible for readers with little background in feminist literary theory, deconstruction, or psychoanalysis, and he delivers on that promise. This study is an exercise in creative reading, an approach Royle defines in the introduction for those unfamiliar with it... The book is compelling and will interest readers of Cixous in any language.' Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. -- .

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Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex

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