The Kristeva Reader

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Columbia University Press, 1986 - 327 pages

An easily accessible introduction to Kristeva's work in English. The essays have been selected as representative of the three main areas of Kristeva's writing--semiotics, psychoanalysis, and political theory--and are each prefaced by a clear, instructive introduction. 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.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Linguistics Semiotics Textuality
23
The System and the Speaking Subject
24
Word Dialogue and Novel
34
From Symbol to Sign
62
Semiotics A Critical Science andor a Critique of Science
74
Revolution in Poetic Language
89
Women Psychoanalysis Politics
137
Stabat Mater
160
Womens Time
187
The TrueReal
214
Freud and Love Treatment and Its Discontents
238
Why the United States?
272
A New Type of Intellectual The Dissident
292
Psychoanalysis and the Polis
301
Index
321

About Chinese Women
138

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About the author (1986)

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.

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