TY - BOOK AU - Cixous,Hélène AU - Prenowitz,Eric TI - Volleys of humanity: essays 1972- 2009 T2 - The frontiers of theory SN - 9780748647583 AV - PQ2663.I9 A6 2011 U1 - 844.914 PY - 2011///] CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - French literature KW - History and criticism KW - Littérature française KW - Histoire et critique KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - General KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 These 15 essays - 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time - span nearly 40 years of Cixous' writing.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'. Key Features. Considers a wide variety of writers, including Proust, Kleist, Lispector, Joyce, Shakespeare and Stendhal Each essay is accompanied by references and commentary UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=386931 ER -