This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0631125272.

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Title

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

Publisher

Wiley Blackwell

Publication Date

1981

Language

English

ISBN 10

0631125272

ISBN 13

9780631125273

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Poor

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Weight

700 grams

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This study proposes and tests theories involving first the origin and development of the novel, and second what the author has defined as a signifying practice in "poetic language" and pictorial works. She rejects the postulates of Freudian ego psychology, and argues the existence in language of a split subject divided between unconscious and conscious motivations; that is, between physiological processes and social constraints.

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"Kristeva's depiction of contrariety and anomaly at the heart of postmodernist theory is ingenious, provocative, and challenging." -- "Contemporary Literature"

"Kristeva changes the place of things: she always destroys the "latest preconception," the one we thought we could be comforted by, the one of which we could be proud; what she displaces is the illusion that it has all been said already, that is, she removes the pressure of the signified----in a word, stupidity; what she subverts is authority----that of monological science, of filiation." -- Roland Barthes

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