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Desire in Language A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

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ISBN-10: 0231048076

ISBN-13: 9780231048071

Edition: 2000

Authors: Julia Kristeva, Leon Roudiez, Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine, Alice Jardine

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Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. But the essays of Julia Kristeva in this volume, though they often deal with literature and art, do not amount to either "literary criticism" or "art criticism." Their concern, writes Kristeva, "remains intratheoretical: they are based on art and literature in order to subvert the very theoretical, philosophical, or semiological apparatus." Probing beyond the discoveries of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Roman Jakobson and others, Julia Kristeva proposes and tests theories centered on the nature and development of the novel, and on what she has defined…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/22/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 305
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Julia Kristeva is an internationally known psychoanalyst and critic and is professor of linguistics at the University of Paris VII. She is the author of many highly regarded books published by Columbia in translation, including Hannah Arendt, Strangers to Ourselves, New Maladies of the Soul, Time and Sense,and The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt.

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 Literatureand the novel, Possessions.