Volleys of humanity : essays 1972- 2009 /

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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 These 15 essays - 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time - span nearly 40 years of Cixous' writing.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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cixous, Hélène, 1937- (Author)
Other Authors: Prenowitz, Eric (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2011]
Series:Frontiers of theory.
Subjects:
French literature > History and criticism.
Littérature française > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
French literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fiction and its phantoms : a reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The "uncanny")
  • The character of "character"
  • Missexuality : where come I play?
  • The pleasure reinciple, or, Paradox lost
  • Reaching the point of wheat, or, A portrait of the artist as a maturing woman
  • Letter to Zohra Drif
  • The names of Oran
  • The book as one of its own characters
  • How not to speak of Algeria
  • The Oklahoma Nature Theater is recruiting
  • The book I don't write
  • The unforeseeable
  • Passion Michel Foucault
  • Promised cities
  • Volleys of humanity.

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