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A leading literary critic and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva is one of the most significant French thinkers writing today. In this survey of her work, John Lechte outlines fully and systematically her intellectual development. He traces it from her work on Bakhtin and the logic of poetic language in the 1960s, through her influential theories of the "symbolic" and the "semiotic" in the 1970s, to her analyses of horror, love, melancholy, and cosmopolitanism in the 1980s. He provides an insight into the intellectual and historical context which gave rise to Kristeva's thought, showing how thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Emile Benveniste, and Georges Bataille have been important in stimulating her own reflections. He concludes with an overall assessment of Kristeva's work, looking particularly at her importance for feminism and postmodernist thought in general.
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'Julia Kristeva: Live Theory is another fine contribution to Continuum's 'Live Theory' series....Lechte and Margaroni succeed in challenging the popular view that the only route into a theorist's work is through the theorist her/himself. This is because the volume they offer does an excellent job of simplifying - and consolidating - to a considerable extent many of Kristeva's often obscure and convoluted ideas. I found particularly sharp, cogent and reqarding John Lechte's interview with Julia Kristeva....this is a remarkably exhilarting book, greater than the sum of its parts, producing an intense conversational space that will easily draw in the perceptive specialist reader.' Akinbola E. Akinwumi, Political Studies Review, 2006, 4 (3) '...sociologist John Lechte now successfully collaborates with cultural and literary theorist Maria Margaroni to reassess Kristeva's early work and to explore the new directions and socio-political concerns of her more recent work.' The European Legacy 11, (4): 2006--Sanford Lakoff
About the Author:
John Lechte is Associate Professor and Head of Sociology at Macquarie University. He is the author of Key Contemporary Concepts. Maria Margaroni is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Cyprus. They are co-editors of The Kristeva Critical Reader.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0415008093
- ISBN 13 9780415008099
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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