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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462413303321

Titolo

Abjection, melancholia, and love : the work of Julia Kristeva / / edited by John Fletcher and Andrew Benjamin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-58586-3

9786613898319

0-203-12054-X

1-136-32188-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature

Abjection melancholia and love : the work of Julia Kristeva ; ; v. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

BenjaminAndrew E

FletcherJohn <1937->

Disciplina

801.95092

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and literature

Feminism and literature - France

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1990 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; New: Abjection, Melancholia and Love; New: Copyright Page; Old: Abjection, Melancholia and Love; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction by John Fletcher; 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 Chase9. 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; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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