{"product_id":"the-third-body-9780810126541","title":"The Third Body","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Third Body, \u003c\/i\u003e the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist Hélène Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations with other authors and thinkers. Cixous evokes the relationship of the female narrator and her over, a relationship of alternating presences and absences, separations and rejoinings. This relationship assumes protean forms within a complex web of writing, creating a \"third body\" out of the entwined bodies of the narrator and her lover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHélène Cixous is a professor emerita of literature and founder of the Centre d'études feminines, Paris VIII. Her numerous books include \u003ci\u003eStigmata, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, The Newly Born Woman, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Laugh of the Medusa, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eManhattan: Letters from Prehistory.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2000, a collection in Cixous' name was created at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662297370898,"sku":"9780810126541","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9dfae3c6-6291-494d-9771-3274864b8f18.jpg?v=1733519013","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-third-body-9780810126541","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}