Cixousian

English

Etymology

From Cixous +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Cixousian (comparative more Cixousian, superlative most Cixousian)

1. Of or relating to Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, philosopher, and literary critic.
   • 1997, Sidney I. Dobrin, Constructing Knowledges:

     Worsham understands that Junker needs to validate Cixousian theory through composition pedagogy in order for her, like other compositionists, to find it to be a useful theory.

   • 2005, Lee A. Jacobus, Regina Barreca, Hélène Cixous: Critical Impressions, page 81:

     The Cixousian sentence is manipulated from back to front by its intrinsic infinity: the sentence is no longer a logical unit, a synthetic entity, a pause in the concept, but a stream with no banks or external constraints […]