Volleys of Humanity: Essays 1972-2009

ISBN-13: 9780748639038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 312 str.

Helene Cixous

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 These 15 essays - 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time - span nearly 40 years of Cixous' writing.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

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A Note on the Texts Series Editor's Preface Introduction: Cixousian Gambols By Eric Prenowitz 1. Fiction and its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche 2. The Character of 'Character' 3. Re Egg-gendring in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake or how Joyce makes us (s)cream with laughter 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 Theatre 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