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Title Abjection, melancholia and love : the work of Julia Kristeva / edited by John Fletcher, Andrew Benjamin
Published London : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 4
Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 4.
Contents 1. The adolescent novel / Julia Kristeva -- 2. Art, love, and melancholy in the work of Julia Kristeva / John Lechte -- 3. The an-arche of psychotherapy / Noreen O'Connor -- 4. The ethics of sexual difference / Alison Ainley -- 5. Female temporality and the future of feminism / Tina Chanter -- 6. The body of signification / Elizabeth Gross -- 7. Geometry and abjection / Victor Burgin -- 8. Primary narcissism and the giving of figure : Kristeva with Hertz and de Man / Cynthia Chase -- 9. Julia Kristeva : theorizing the avant-garde? / Leslie Hill -- 10. Virginia Woolf : 'seen from a foreign land' / Makiko Minow-Pinkney -- 11. Eliot's abjection / Maud Ellman
Summary This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an 'open structure'. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva's work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis.The essays in this volume offer insight into the workings of Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to the mental states of abjecti
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Subject Kristeva, Julia, 1941-
SUBJECT Kristeva, Julia, 1941- fast
Subject Psychoanalysis and literature.
Feminism and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Feminism and literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
Form Electronic book
Author Fletcher, John, 1937-
Benjamin, Andrew E
ISBN 9780203120545
020312054X
9781136321887
1136321888
113632187X
9781136321870