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Volleys of Humanity : Essays 1972–2009 / Eric Prenowitz, Hélène Cixous.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTHPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748639038
  • 9780748647583
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 844.914 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ2663.I9
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Sources -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Cixousian Gambols -- 1. Fiction and Its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud’s Das Unheimliche (The ‘Uncanny’) -- 2. The Character of ‘Character’ -- 3. Missexuality: Where Come I Play? -- 4. The Pleasure Reinciple or Paradox Lost -- 5. Reaching the Point of Wheat, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Maturing Woman -- 6. Letter to Zohra Drif -- 7. The Names of Oran -- 8. The Book as One of Its Own Characters -- 9. How Not to Speak of Algeria -- 10. The Oklahoma Nature Theater Is Recruiting -- 11. The Book I Don’t Write -- 12. The Unforeseeable -- 13. Passion Michel Foucault -- 14. Promised Cities -- 15. Volleys of Humanity -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Summary: A new collection from one of the most famous and influential French theoristsThese 15 essays – 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time – span nearly 40 years of Cixous’ writing. Here, she ranges over literature, philosophy, politics and culture in what she calls her ‘autobibliography’. Key FeaturesConsiders a wide variety of writers, including Proust, Kleist, Lispector, Joyce, Shakespeare and StendhalEach essay is accompanied by references and commentary
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Sources -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Cixousian Gambols -- 1. Fiction and Its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud’s Das Unheimliche (The ‘Uncanny’) -- 2. The Character of ‘Character’ -- 3. Missexuality: Where Come I Play? -- 4. The Pleasure Reinciple or Paradox Lost -- 5. Reaching the Point of Wheat, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Maturing Woman -- 6. Letter to Zohra Drif -- 7. The Names of Oran -- 8. The Book as One of Its Own Characters -- 9. How Not to Speak of Algeria -- 10. The Oklahoma Nature Theater Is Recruiting -- 11. The Book I Don’t Write -- 12. The Unforeseeable -- 13. Passion Michel Foucault -- 14. Promised Cities -- 15. Volleys of Humanity -- Acknowledgements -- Index

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A new collection from one of the most famous and influential French theoristsThese 15 essays – 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time – span nearly 40 years of Cixous’ writing. Here, she ranges over literature, philosophy, politics and culture in what she calls her ‘autobibliography’. Key FeaturesConsiders a wide variety of writers, including Proust, Kleist, Lispector, Joyce, Shakespeare and StendhalEach essay is accompanied by references and commentary

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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