Beyond Ecriture Feminine is the first book to be published exploring the work of the contemporary French author Jeanne Hyvrard (1945-) from her early novels of the I97os up to some of her most recent texts. Moving critical accounts of Hyvrard beyond a focus upon ecriture feminine, it identifies the patterns through which her writing repeats and transforms creation mythology, her own oeuvre, and her own life, examining how intertextual repetitions bind her work together into a complex and ever-expanding web of allusions and resonances which engages the reader in a process of constant re-interpretation, challenging notions of linearity and reflecting the 'chaotic'reality of life in the Hyvrardian world.

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Introduction: Au commencement

Logos, Chaos, and the tierce pensee

In Memory of the Mother

Recalling the Origin

Language Games

The Textual Labyrinth

Transforming the Self

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index