Rhetoric of threeness or memory, time and identity in Hélène Cixous

Abstract

This study deals with the poetics of the french contemporary novelist, philosopher et literary theorist Hélène Cixous. In a corpus of novels ("Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage", 2000, no translated in czech; "Rêve je te dis", 2003, no translated in czech; "Hyperrêve", 2006, no translated in czech) it examines the dyadic and triadic structures on all levels of the texts, their intrication and the epistemological found in Cixous' dealing with twoness and threeness passing throughout the autobiographic themes of memory, time and identity.

Keywords

• Rhetoric
• twoness
• threeness
• memory
• time
• identity
• Hélène Cixous