Kristeva reader toril moi biography

Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television.

Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, and Professor of English, and Theater Studies at Duke University.

Toril Moi (born 28 November 1953 in Farsund, Norway) is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and Professor of English, Philosophy and.

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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.

Part 1: Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality
1. The System and the Speaking Subject
2. Word, Dialogue and Novel
3. From Symbol to Sign
4. Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science
5. Revolution in Poetic Language
Part 2: Women, Psychoanalysis, Politics
6. About Chinese Women
7. Stabat Mater
8. Women's Time
9. The True-Real
10. Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents
11. Why the United States?
12. A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident
13. Psychoanalysis and the Polis

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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, includin

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The Kristeva Reader

Julia Kristeva. Edited wedge Toril Moi

Columbia Academy Press

Pub Date: November 1986

ISBN: 9780231063258

Format: Paperback

List Price:$37.00£30.00

Pub Date: November 1986

ISBN: 9780231063241

Format: Hardcover

List Price:$115.00£95.00

Julia Kristeva. Altered by Toril Moi

Columbia University Press

About the Author

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Kristeva

A French linguist and semiologist of Bulgarian origin, Julia Kristeva (1941) is a prominent figure in the field of literary studies.

Kristeva distinguished herself in the late sixties by proposing an analytical approach which she calls semanalysis (Sémiotikè: recherches pour une sémanalyse, 1969), based on the great semiological theories (of Saussure, Peirce, and Barthes). She presents semanalysis as a theoretical tool to reveal the movements of the signifying process [signifiance] as they occur in the text. She has given us the concepts "geno-text" (textual genesis) and "pheno-text" (the material form of the text), centred on the subject's experience, which is simultaneously constructed and rejected by language. She is also interested in poetic language (La révolution du langage poétique, 1974), and in Polylogue (1977), she proposes a theory based on the study of cultural codes (dialogism). She developed a semiology of paragrams along these lines, which conceives of the sign as a dialogical element. It is significant that the foundational work of her theories is based on mathematical language, particularly on logic which, because i