Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva Readings of Exile and Estrangement

1996

Hardback (15 Nov 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Literature can have a disturbing effect on its readers. It unsettles our hold on everyday experience and makes us strangers and exiles. Anna Smith argues that this is the side of literature which attracts critic and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. Kristeva is drawn to states of extremity where language and the psyche are under duress, and in this book Smith examines the way the alchemical properties of words may transform these extremities into what Kristeva calls 'a fire of tongues, an exit from representation'.

Book information

ISBN: 9780333629222
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1996
DEWEY: 801.95092
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 246
Weight: 473g
Height: 223mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 23mm