TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cixous,Hélène
AU  - Prenowitz,Eric
TI  - Volleys of Humanity: Essays 1972–2009 
T2  - The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
SN  - 9780748639038
AV  - PQ2663.I9 
U1  - 844.914 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - French literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - A new collection from one of the most famous and influential French theoristsThese 15 essays – 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time – span nearly 40 years of Cixous’ writing.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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748647583
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748647583
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748647583/original
ER  -