Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language

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.”

Product details

• Authors: Julia Kristeva
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 14.10.2025
• EAN: 9780231203333
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20333-3
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Eastern Europe, Russia, PHILOSOPHY / General, European History, Philosophy, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Literature: history & criticism, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era