| Julia Kristeva: Readings of Exile and Estrangement 1996 Edition Contributor(s): Smith, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333629221 ISBN-13: 9780333629222 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Philosophy | Reference |
| Dewey: 801.950 |
| Series: Readings of Exile and Estrangement |
| Physical Information: 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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'. |