Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art - Couverture souple

Kristeva, Julia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231048076 ISBN 13 : 9780231048071

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 1980

Synopsis

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 as a signifying practice in poetic language and pictural works. Desire in Language fully shows what Roman Jakobson has called Kristeva's "genuine gift of questioning generally adopted 'axioms,' and her contrary gift of releasing various 'damned questions' from their traditional question marks."

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À propos de l?auteur

Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Severed Head: Capital Visions, This Incredible Need to Believe, Hatred and Forgiveness, and Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila, all published by Columbia. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231048076
• ISBN 13: 9780231048071
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 305
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