The Kristeva Reader

by Julia Kristeva, Toril Moi

Overview

The Kristeva Reader is a fully comprehensive, easily accessible introduction to her work in English, containing a wide range of essays from all phases of Kristev's career. The essays have been carefully selected as representative of the three main areas of Kristeva's writing - semiotics, psychoanalysis, and political theory - and are each prefaced by a clear instructive introduction. The volume will be particularly valuable to those in search of a basic grounding in Kristeva's complex, disturbing theories; but for those already familiar with her work it also offers a compact, covenient selection of important articles, some of them otherwise hard to come by.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231063241
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	11/19/1986
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Table of Contents

Part 1: Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality
1. The System and the Speaking Subject
2. Word, Dialogue and Novel
3. From Symbol to Sign
4. Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science
5. Revolution in Poetic Language
Part 2: Women, Psychoanalysis, Politics
6. About Chinese Women
7. Stabat Mater
8. Women's Time
9. The True-Real
10. Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents
11. Why the United States?
12. A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident
13. Psychoanalysis and the Polis

Editorial Reviews

It has been apprarent for some time that Julia Kristeva has inherited the intellectual throne left vacant by the death of Simone de Beauvoir.

Elaine Showalter