Tentative Analysis On The Gender Orientation Of Cixous's Poetics

The western literary theory circle of the 20th century was full of voice clamored by the literary theorists and it was also a world smelled with the original and unusual odor. Feminist Literary Criticism brought the literary world a strong cyclone, which caused people to review the history, present, and future of the whole literature from an unusual vision. For the French Feminist Literary Criticism, what has made the greatest impact and most controversy belongs to the Helene Cixous's feminine writing theory. In view of the current, there is no systematic review of Helene Cixous's poetics, but conversely full of distortion and misunderstanding about her feminine writing theory in Chinese literary sector. Consequently, I want to make a comprehensive collation about Helene Cixous's poetics in this article.This thesis concludes three parts:The first part: clarifying Helene Cixous's feminine writing theory. Designating that there exists full of distortion and misunderstanding about Cixous's feminine writing theory in Chinese literature circle, and in the meantime making clearly its features: firstly, the women's body is not simply physical one, but contains important feminine information concerning physiological psychological and cultural aspects; secondly, writing with women's body is not to say that we must abandon language ,but conversely writing with words is the manner women express the feeling of their existence and self-help, the indication of women loving each other, and the strategy of opposing to the phallus-centrism and transforming the whole society.The second part: clarifying Helene Cixous's androgyny theory. Indicating that androgyny theory in Chinese literature sector is affected very much by Virginia Wolf's, but Cixous's is different from the former and claims that it does not only include and accept differences but also another gender, and in the end concluding that the bisexuality of Cixous's is the characteristics of composite diversity, fluent variability, imaginativeness, subversiveness, no standard, transcendence and so forth.The third part: clarifying the core and basis of Helene Cixous's poetics. Indicating that the theory of Helene Cixous's poetics,soaked in the western culture, philosophical tradition, and social ideology, adopts and accepts many kinds of knowledge and methods of disciplines, and at the same time possesses varieties of deconstructive features.The most specific of this thesis is that on the background of the modern French/Western multi-culture, combined the theories with the works, the paper will use the methods of close-reading and microscopic analysis of the texts and also the cross-disciplinary methods such as the comparative study, and at the same time based on the comprehensive and systematic review Helene Cixous's poetics, will clarify some of my own views. This text will focus on the ideological content and origin of Helene Cixous's poetics, and the nuclear conception of her poetics such as feminine writing and androgyny. It will explore the micro points and illustrate the concrete details, combined macro perspective with deep analysis, and in the end make a conclusion of Helene Cixous's poetics: Helene Cixous has put forward the feminine writing theories whose ideal was androgyny, and suggested respecting the differences, digesting and subverting the stubborn binary opposition between man and woman, transforming the society, promoting the harmony of the society and ultimately implementing bisexual co-existence and consensus. In the contemporary multi-cultural and global world, the ideology of Helene Cixous's poetics no doubt has an important reference and also provides an effective guide to modern society.