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The Kristeva Reader

The Kristeva Reader

Julia Kristeva

For beginners or those familiar with Kristeva's work this is a good complement to The Portable Kristeva with a convenient selection of articles from Kristeva's earlier work some of which are otherwise hard to come by.
Kristeva

Kristeva

Stacey Keltner

Q Sara Beardsworth, Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity (New York: State University of New York Press, 2004). 3 Sara Beardsworth, Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity. Kristeva's Theory of Meaning and Subjectivity This ...
Abjection, Melancholia, and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva

Abjection, Melancholia, and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva

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This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, The Adolescent Novel , in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an open structure .
Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein

Julia Kristeva

Klein is thus, in a sense, a mother to Kristeva, making this book an account of the development of Kristeva's own thought as well as Klein's.
Textual Practice

Textual Practice

Terence Hawkes

ANNY. BROOKSBANK. JONES. Julia. Kristeva. and. her. Old. Man: between. optimism. and. despair. In October 1991 Julia Kristeva's Le Vieil Homme et les hups appeared, to a mixed reception.1 This paper considers the novel's reception in ...
Once Below a Time: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and Other ...

Once Below a Time: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and Other ...

Eynel Wardi

Offers a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of Dylan Thomas and Julia Kristeva.
Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity

Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity

Sara Beardsworth

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.
Strangers to Ourselves

Strangers to Ourselves

Julia Kristeva

Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy.
Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva

Noelle McAfee

This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on: *semiotics and symbolism *abjection *melancholia *feminism *revolt.
The old man and the wolves

The old man and the wolves

Julia Kriesteva

-- Publishers Weekly Internationally renowned psychoanalyst and writer Julia Kristeva presents a critical allegory for our time.
The Right to Narcissism: A Case for an Im-possible Self-love

The Right to Narcissism: A Case for an Im-possible Self-love

Pleshette DeArmitt

Sara Beardsworth, Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004), 57 (hereafter cited in text as SB). 10. For some other accounts of narcissism in Kristeva's works, see, for example, Sara ...
Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative

Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative

Julia Kristeva

Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life.
Julia Kristeva: Speaking The Unspeakable

Julia Kristeva: Speaking The Unspeakable

Anne-Marie Smith

Anne-Marie Smith’s concise introductory study examines Kristeva in the light of her contemporary activity as writer, teacher and psychoanalyst.
Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind

Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind

Kelly Oliver

This feminist interpretation of Kristeva's work situates her within the context of French feminism. Oliver positions Kristeva's intellectual work within formation in linguistics, Freud, Lacan, and poetics.
Sexual Subversions

Sexual Subversions

Elizabeth Grosz

The book introduces the works of three well known French feminists: Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Michele Le Doeuff.
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Julia Kristeva

Looks at the psychological nature of depression and discusses its portrayal in literature and art
The Feminine and the Sacred

The Feminine and the Sacred

Catherine Clément

In November 1996, Catherine Cl ment and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred.
French feminism reader

French feminism reader

Kelly Oliver

This collection includes selections by Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy, Colette Guilluamin, Monique Wittig, Michele Le Doeuff, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, and Helene Cixious.
The Feminine and the sacred

The Feminine and the sacred

Catherine Backès-Clément

In November 1996, Catherine ClA(c)ment and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred.
Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre

Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre

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Refusing the Romanticism of Identity: Narrative Interventions in Churchill, Benmussa, Duras Elin Diamond Questioned about the relationship between women and textual production, Julia Kristeva commented: ... a woman cannot "be " . . . does ...
Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human

Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human

Kelly Oliver

Sara Beardsworth discusses Kristeva's analysis of biblical abomination, saying that for Kristeva, “biblical abomination therefore iterates primal repression, carrying it into the very constitution of symbolic Law and, at the same time, revealing that ...
French Feminist Theory: An Introduction

French Feminist Theory: An Introduction

Dani Cavallaro

These are explored through the work of a wide range of theorists: Simone de Beauvoir, Chantal Chawaf, Helene Cixous, Catherine Clement, Christine Delphy, Marguerite Duras, Colette Guillaumin, Madeleine Gagnon, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, ...
Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the ...

Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the ...

Francesca Granata

... Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1981), 3. Peter de Potter, 'Interview with Bernhard Willhelm', Butt 1 (May 2001): 14–18.
Subjectivity

Subjectivity

Ruth Robbins

Ruth Robbins. transitions General Editor: Julian Wolfreys Published Titles TERRYEAGLETON David Alderson JULIA KRISTEVA AND LITERARYTHEORY Megan Becker-Leckrone BATAILLE Fred Botting and Scott Wilson NEW ...
In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema

In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema

Julie Beaulieu

Karen Piper appropriates Julia Kristeva's reading of Duras's representation of melancholia in her novels through Walter Benjamin and some Marxist critics to propose that grief in Duras is a method and a result of social production' in which the ...
Narcissus:

Narcissus:

Evelyn Scott

At the same time she felt a repugnance to Julia which she had never experienced until recently. Julia, also ... Just then he caught Julia's eyes and a flush spread over his face. ... "Farley, you and Miss Julia get your wraps and we'll wait for you.
Unconditional Life: The Postwar International Law Settlement

Unconditional Life: The Postwar International Law Settlement

Yoriko Otomo

I owe a heavy intellectual debt to Sara Beardsworth for her work, which has clarified for me the relation between psychoanalysis and sociology by couching it in terms of the philosophical problem of nihilism: Sara Beardsworth, Julia Kristeva: ...
The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in ...

The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in ...

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Kristeva, Julia. Powers ofHorror: An Essay in Abjection. New York, Guildford: Columbia University Press, 1982. Kuznick, Peter J., and James Gilbert. “U.S. Culture and the Cold War.” In Rethinking Cold War Culture, edited by Peter J. Kuznick ...
Reimagining the Sacred: Richard Kearney debates God with ...

Reimagining the Sacred: Richard Kearney debates God with ...

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Richard Kearney debates God with James Wood, Catherine Keller, Charles Taylor, Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo, David Tracey, and Merold Westphal Richard Kearney, Jens Zimmermann. 6.

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