{"product_id":"volleys-of-humanity-9780748639038","title":"Volleys of Humanity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA selection of important yet previously untranslated and unpublished essays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs essayist, Helene Cixous always astonishes with the unforeseeable volleys of her poetically driven, politically riven prose. How fortunate her English language readers are to find these priceless texts together in one volume. Time, almost forty years, has passed, but untouched is the absolute youth and vitality of every line. -- Professor Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California Volleys of Humanity is perhaps the richest single volume of Cixous' critical writings yet published in English. A lucid and beautiful introduction by Eric Prenowitz leads into an explosive salvo of texts, ranging from early essays already justly famous ('Fiction and its Phantoms' and 'The Character of \"Character\"') to the tremendous title-essay 'Volleys of Humanity', first published in French in 2009. There are also remarkable essays (previously unpublished in English) on Joyce, Clarice Lispector ('the greatest writer in the twentieth century'), and Michel Foucault, as well as on Algeria, US politics and theatre, cities and the unforeseeable. -- Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex As essayist, Helene Cixous always astonishes with the unforeseeable volleys of her poetically driven, politically riven prose. How fortunate her English language readers are to find these priceless texts together in one volume. Time, almost forty years, has passed, but untouched is the absolute youth and vitality of every line. Volleys of Humanity is perhaps the richest single volume of Cixous' critical writings yet published in English. A lucid and beautiful introduction by Eric Prenowitz leads into an explosive salvo of texts, ranging from early essays already justly famous ('Fiction and its Phantoms' and 'The Character of \"Character\"') to the tremendous title-essay 'Volleys of Humanity', first published in French in 2009. There are also remarkable essays (previously unpublished in English) on Joyce, Clarice Lispector ('the greatest writer in the twentieth century'), and Michel Foucault, as well as on Algeria, US politics and theatre, cities and the unforeseeable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Texts  Series Editor's Preface    Introduction: Cixousian Gambols   By Eric Prenowitz    1.\tFiction and its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche  2.\tThe Character of 'Character'  3.\tRe Egg-gendring in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake or how Joyce makes us (s)cream with laughter  4.\tThe Pleasure Reinciple or Paradox Lost  5.\tReaching the Point of Wheat, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Maturing Woman  6.\tLetter to Zohra Drif  7.\tThe Names of Oran  8.\tThe Book as One of Its Own Characters  9.\tHow Not to Speak of Algeria  10.\tThe Oklahoma Nature Theatre is Recruiting  11.\tThe Book I Don't Write  12.\tThe Unforeseeable  13.\tPassion Michel Foucault  14.\tPromised Cities  15.\tVolleys of Humanity    Acknowledgements  Index","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404492054871,"sku":"9780748639038","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780748639038.jpg?v=1730486627","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/volleys-of-humanity-9780748639038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}