Kristeva: Powers Of Horror An Essay On Abjection (cloth) (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) - Hardcover

Kristeva, J

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9780231053464: Kristeva: Powers Of Horror An Essay On Abjection (cloth) (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism)

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ISBN 10: 0231053460 ISBN 13: 9780231053464

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1982

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Analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors

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Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others. . . ." [Powers of Horror]" is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on paraphilosophical modes of discourse.

About the Author:

Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature and the novel, Possessions.

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