Desire in Language

Informationen zum Autor Julia Kristeva. Edited by Leon S. Roudiez. Translated by Thomas Gora, Alice A. Jardine, and Leon S. Roudiez. Klappentext 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." Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Index

Product details

• Authors: Julia Kristeva
• Assisted by: Alice Jardine (Editor), Alice A. Jardine (Editor), Leon Roudiez (Editor), Leon S. Roudiez (Editor), Thomas Gora (Translation), Alice Jardine (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.1982
• EAN: 9780231048071
• ISBN: 978-0-231-04807-1
• No. of pages: 305
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
• Series: European Perspectives Series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies