Helene Cixous

Volleys of Humanity (eBook, PDF)

Essays 1972-2009
Redaktion: Prenowitz, Eric

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This major new collection of texts by Helene Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays.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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748647583
• Artikelnr.: 38223058

Autorenporträt

Hélène Cixous is Director of the Centre d'Études Féminines at Université Paris VIII, Emerita. one of the foremost intellectuals and creative writers in France and a major figure in the emergence and global spread of postmodern literary theory, late-20th-century Continental Thought and Women's Studies. She is the author of more than 40 novels, 14 plays and 15 volumes of theory and essays. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Hindi and Urdu. Eric Prenowitz is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. He is an acclaimed reader and translator of both Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Recent publications include special editions of parallax and New Literary History on the work of Hélène Cixous, and 'Rêvécrire', in Rêver croire penser, CampagnePremière, 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

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