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Marta Segarra and Joana Masó  \nThe Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the later Gadamer  \nTimothy Clark  \nAbout Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time Mark Currie  \nThe Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise Mark Currie  \nThe Post-Romantic Predicament Paul de Man, ed. Martin McQuillan The Paul de Man Notebooks Paul de Man, ed. Martin McQuillan  \nGeneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius Jacques Derrida  \nCixous’s Semi-Fictions: At the Borders of Fiction Mairéad Hanrahan  \nScandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human Barbara Herrnstein Smith  \nTo Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida Peggy Kamuf  \nDeath-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art Robert Rowland Smith  \nVeering: A Theory of Literature Nicholas Royle  \nMaterial Inscriptions: Rhetorical Reading in Practice and Theory Andrzej Warminski  \nIdeology, Rhetoric, Aesthetics: For de Man Andrzej Warminski  \nAgainst Mastery: Creative Readings and Weak Force Sarah Wood  \nModern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis  \nSimon Morgan Wortham Mother Homer is Dead… Hélène Cixous and Peggy Kamuf  \nForthcoming Titles  \nReadings of Derrida  \nSarah Kofman, trans. Patience Moll  \nThinking What Comes, 1: Essays and Interventions Bennington and Saghafi  \nThinking What Comes, 2: Interviews and Interruptions Bennington and Saghafi  \nVisit the Frontiers of Theory website [at](at www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/tfot)[ www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/tfot](at www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/tfot)  \nMother Homer is Dead …  \nH élène Cixous  \nTranslated by Peggy Kamuf  \nEdinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: [edinburghuniversitypress.com](edinburghuniversitypress.com)  \n© Hélène Cixous, Homère est morte…, Editions Galilée, Paris, 2014 English translation © Peggy Kamuf, 2018  \nEdinburgh University Press Ltd  \nThe Tun – Holyrood Road, 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJA CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 2514 8  \nThe right of Hélène Cixous to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498) .  \nContents  \nSeries Editor ’s Preface  \nPrologue  \nThe Very Long Journey: Notebooks 10–12  \nThe Beautiful Summer of 2011  \nThe Anger of the Scamander She Comes Back to Arcachon 17 July 2013  \n27 July 2013  \nSeries Editor ’s Preface  \nSince its inception Theory has been concerned with its own limits, ends and after-life. It would be an illusion to imagine that the academy is no longer resistant to Theory but a significant consensus has been established and it can be said that Theory has now entered the mainstream of the humanities. Reaction against Theory is now a minority view and new generations of scholars have grown up with Theory. 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