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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cixous, Hélène,; Prenowitz, Eric,
• MitwirkendeR: Prenowitz, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748647583; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748647583
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eric Prenowitz, Hélène Cixous.

A new collection from one of the most famous and influential French theoristsThese 15 essays – 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time – span nearly 40 years of Cixous’ writing.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