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Revolution in Poetic Language Julia Kristeva

Revolution in Poetic Language By Julia Kristeva

Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva


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Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.

Revolution in Poetic Language Summary

Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.

Revolution in Poetic Language Reviews

A crucially important book. -- Toril Moi * French Studies *
A lucid and creative consideration of the status and stakes of contemporary cultural criticism, it is essential reading for students of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-and a monumental challenge to all of us. -- Alice Jardine, Harvard University

About Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Universite 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.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface
Introduction, by Leon S. Roudiez
Prolegomenon
Part 1. The Semiotic and the symbolic
1. The Phenomenological Subject of Enunciation
2. The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives
3. Husserl's Hyletic Meaning: A Natural Thesis
4. Hjelmslev's Presupposed Meaning
5. The Thetic: Rupture and/or Boundary
6. The Mirror and Castration Positing the Subject as Absent from the Signifier
7. Frege's Notion of Signification: Enunciation and Denotation
8. Breaching the Thetic: Mimesis
9. The Unstable Symbolic. Substitutions in the Symbolic: Fetishism
10. The Signifying Process
11. Poetry That is Not a Form of Murder
12. Genotext and Phenotext
13. Four Signifying Practices
Part 2. Negativity: Rejection
1. The Fourth Term of the Dialectic
2. Independent and Subjugated Force in Hegel
3. Negativity as Transversal to Thetic Judgment
4. Kinesis, Cura, Desire
5. Humanitarian Desire
6. Non-Contradiction Neutral Peace
7. Freud's Notion of Expulsion Rejection
Part 3. Heterogeneity
1. The Dichotomy and Heteronomy of Drives
2. Facilitation, Stasis, and the Thetic Moment
3. The Homological Economy of the Representamen
4. Through the Principle of Language
5. Skepticism and Nihilism in Hegel and in the Text
Part 4. Practice
1. Experience Is Not Practice
2. The Atomistic Subject of Practice in Marxism
3. Calling Back Rupture within Practice - Experience-in-Practice
4. The Text as Practice, Distinct from Transference Discourse
5. The Second Overturning of the Dialectic after Political Economy, Aesthetics
6. Madoror and Poems, Laughter as Practice
7. The Expenditure of a Logical Conclusion: Igitur
Notes
Index

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NGR9780231214599
9780231214599
0231214596
Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva
New
Paperback
Columbia University Press
2023-11-07
304
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