Desire in Language - A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Julia Kristeva proposes and tests theories centered on the nature and development of the novel.

List of contents

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

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

Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Julia Kristeva proposes and tests theories centered on the nature and development of the novel.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Kristeva, Kristeva Julia
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2024
• EAN: 9780231214551
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21455-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory, rhetoric; linguistics