Desire in Language (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Julia Kristeva
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Linguistics
- Subjects: Language or languages, Self, Literature, Communication, Linguistics or linguists, Alienation, Women’s issues, Human behavior, Speech, Thought or thinking, Semantics, Semiotics, Mind and body
Form and Content
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, a compilation of Julia Kristeva’s early work, records her transformation from a young, Bulgarian doctoral student newly arrived in Paris into a leading interpreter of the theories of literature and culture that she encountered in the course of her studies: structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. Throughout Desire in Language, Kristeva draws on key themes in these theories to make original and provocative claims. On the one hand, Kristeva shares with their...
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