Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable

by Anne-Marie Smith

Book Overview

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745310575
• ISBN13: 9780745310572
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.5"