Julia Kristeva by Anne-Marie Smith

Julia Kristeva by Anne-Marie Smith

‘Makes an excellent introduction to Kristeva in its enthusiasm and generosity ... lucid and well-conceived.’ TLS Julia Kristeva’s most remarkable contribution to modern thought has been her revelation of how pre-verbal experience - poetic, infantile, maternal and spiritual, or simply the experience of suffering - enters language through the processes of literature, art and psychoanalysis. Anne-Marie Smith’s concise introductory study examines Kristeva in the light of her contemporary activity as writer, teacher and psychoanalyst. Tracing the evolution of Kristeva’s thinking over the last thirty years she draws attention to its conceptual coherence and value as a work-in-progress of cultural critique. Smith provides close readings of the original texts, new translations and first-hand accounts of Kristeva’s lectures. Kristeva’s influence in Anglo-American thought is set against her place in the French intellectual tradition. She emphasizes Kristeva’s involvement in public cultural activity and personal commitment to psychoanalytic practice as well as her insistent interrogation of the place of women and of foreignness in social structures.

Anne-Marie Smith teaches literary translation at the Université de Paris VIII.

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ISBN 13	9780745310572
ISBN 10	0745310575
Title	Julia Kristeva
Author	Anne Marie Smith
Series	Modern European Thinkers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pluto Press
Year published	1998-07-20
Number of pages	120
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