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Desire in Language

A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

Julia Kristeva Leon Roudiez Thomas Gora Alice Jardine

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English
Columbia University Press
29 March 2024
"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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Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm, 
ISBN:   9780231214551
ISBN 10:   0231214553
Series:   European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pages:   352
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction by Leon S. Roudiez 1. The Ethics of Linguistics 2. The Bounded Text 3. Word, Dialogue, and Novel 4. How Does One Speak to Literature? 5. From One Identity to an Other 6. The Father, Love, and Banishment 7. The Novel as Polylogue 8. Giotto's Joy 9. Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini 10. Place Names Notes Index

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Reviews for Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

Kristeva’s depiction of contrariety and anomaly at the heart of postmodernist theory is ingenious, provocative, and challenging. * Contemporary Literature * An important work for students of cultural processes and anyone interested in a semiotic approach to the problems of cultural history. -- Hayden White * Journal of Modern History * A provocative rereading of a diverse and crucial canon. * Criticism *


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