Volleys of Humanity : Essays 1972-2009 (The Frontiers of Theory)

Cixous, Hélène/ Prenowitz, Eric (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2011/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780748639038
• DDC分類 844.914

Full Description

This major new collection of texts by Hélène Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays. These essays deal with literature, politics, history, Algeria, and the university and include works from Cixous' most significant contributions to literary criticism (Joyce, Kleist, Stendhal, Kafka, Shakespeare) as well as her contemporary writing on human rights and geo-politics. They are all informed by Cixous' unique gift for combining a writer's love of idiom and life with a scholar's acute deconstructive reading. These texts present an extended account of what Cixous calls here 'autobibliography' in which writing, theory, politics and life combine to open up the world through critical reading and self-reflection. 'I am on the side of life', says Cixous. These essays affirm Cixous' reputation as one of our greatest readers and sources of critical light in the world today.Key Features*Author is a leading French theorist and writer*Essays cover a wide range of topics and contemporary issues

Contents

A Note on the TextsSeries Editor's PrefaceIntroduction: Cixousian Gambols By Eric Prenowitz1. Fiction and its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche2. The Character of 'Character'3. Re Egg-gendring in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake or how Joyce makes us (s)cream with laughter4. The Pleasure Reinciple or Paradox Lost5. Reaching the Point of Wheat, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Maturing Woman6. Letter to Zohra Drif7. The Names of Oran8. The Book as One of Its Own Characters9. How Not to Speak of Algeria10. The Oklahoma Nature Theatre is Recruiting11. The Book I Don't Write12. The Unforeseeable13. Passion Michel Foucault14. Promised Cities15. Volleys of HumanityAcknowledgementsIndex