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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827086703321

Autore

Cixous Helene <1937->

Titolo

Volleys of humanity : essays 1972- 2009 / / Helene Cixous ; edited by Eric Prenowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-7486-5363-5

1-283-25283-X

9786613252838

0-7486-4758-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The frontiers of theory

Altri autori (Persone)

PrenowitzEric

Disciplina

844.914

Soggetti

French essays

French literature - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

A selection of important yet previously untranslated and unpublished essays.