Time and Sense - Proust and the Experience of Literature

Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.

About the author

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.”

Summary

Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Kristeva
• Assisted by: Ross Guberman (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.1996
• EAN: 9780231102506
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10250-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: European Perspectives
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies