Julia Kristeva Questions and Answers
Julia Kristeva
In Revolution in Poetic Language, does Kristeva equate poetic language with the semiotic chora? Are they one and the...
Poetic Language is not the same thing exactly as the semiotic chora. However, they do relate in that the semiotic chora helps create the possibility for poetic language. Julia Kristeva describes...
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Social Abjection What are Kristeva's theories on Social Abjection, and its effects on the abject?
Abjections specifically means... ..."the state of being cast off". It is a literal statement...in that someone is separated from the "whole." Examples of abjection refer to groups who are...
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How does Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of 'polyphonic' differ and or relate to Julia Kristeva's concept of 'intertextuality'?
Kristeva was influenced by Bakhtin's ideas in her own definition of intertextuality. Kristeva's starting point was Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia, defined in one of the Enotes pages on...