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Title: Julia Kristeva. Les mots: Colette, ou la chair du monde. Vol. 3 of Le genie feminin: La vie, la folie, les mots.(Book Review)
Author: Liedeke Plate
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 77Issue: 2Page: 113(1)

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This digital document is an article from Melbourne Journal of Politics, published by Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6041 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Many feminist social critics have generally dismissed the significance of fashion, yet fashionable clothing can help explore the nature of modern subjectivity. Clothing's symbolic meaning is fluid, and sufficiently strong people use fashion as a form of consultation rather than imposition. Such individuals impose fashion on themselves as a means to create an outward identity they can acceptably perform.

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Title: DRESSING UP A SELF: FASHION AND KRISTEVA'S "SUBJECT IN PROCESS".(Julia Kristeva)
Author: Megan Grant
Publication: Melbourne Journal of Politics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne
Volume: 24Page: 124(1)

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Julia Kristeva, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2377 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1372 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Julia Kristeva and Sylvere Lotringer (eds.), Revolt, She Said.(Book Review)
Author: B. Gerry Coulter
Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn.
Volume: 41Issue: 1Page: 101(4)

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This innovative introductory text not only clearly explains Kristeva's most difficult ideas, but also provides new insights into her work. All Kristeva's key concepts are clearly explained, and new interpretations are offered of the 'chora,' 'Oedipus' and 'abjection,' as well as 'revolt' and the 'feminine genius.' Kristvea's intellectual development is set in historical and political context and the creative power of her work is also highlighted. Finally, the original interview reveals Kristeva's true intellectual and political aspirations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 661 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable.(Review)
Author: Victoria Best
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 96Issue: 1Page: 206(2)

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This digital document is an article from Women and Language, published by George Mason University on September 22, 1993. The length of the article is 4930 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Julia Kristeva's writings have become less fervent in their feminist ideas and so many feminists believe she has accepted phallocentric establishment. Most feminists regard Kristeva's study of motherhood neglecting the link between the mind and society as an acceptance of the existing social order. However, Kristeva's works provide an insight into the various phases of feminism.

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Title: The abject maternal: Kristeva's theoretical consistency. (Julia Kristeva)
Author: Mary Caputi
Publication: Women and Language (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1993
Publisher: George Mason University
Volume: v16Issue: n2Page: p32(6)

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This digital document is an article from Melbourne Journal of Politics, published by Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 938 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A day with Julia Kristeva: arts, ethics, philosophy, politics.
Author: Megan Grant
Publication: Melbourne Journal of Politics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne
Volume: 24Page: 166(1)

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on July 19, 1998. The length of the article is 1037 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Una atendible lección del museo del Louvre; Y II. (ensayo literario de Julia Kristeva sobre la exposición de arte "Visions capitales" en el Museo del Louvre, Francia)(TT: A must attend lecture of the Louvre; and II) (literary essay by Julia Kristeva about art exhibition "Visions capitales" at the Louvre, France)
Author: Raquel Tibol
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 19, 1998
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1133Page: p57(1)

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Explores the political implications of Kristeva's theoretical and fictional writings. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Women and Language, published by George Mason University on September 22, 1995. The length of the article is 553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ethics, Politics and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing. (book reviews)
Author: Susan Freedman
Publication: Women and Language (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: George Mason University
Volume: v18Issue: n2Page: p52(2)

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In this absorbing, suspenseful novel Julia Kristeva combines social satire, medieval history, philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and autobiography within a gruesome murder mystery.Murder in Byzantium deftly moves from eleventh-century Europe, wracked by the turbulence of the First Crusade, to the sun-dappled, cultural wasteland of present-day Santa Varvara, threatened by religious cults, gangs, and a serial killer on the loose.

This killer is murdering members of a dubious religious sect, the New Pantheon, and leaving a mysterious figure eight drawn on their corpses. Meanwhile, Sebastian Chrest-Jones, a noted professor of human migrations, clandestinely writing a novel about the Byzantine princess-historian Anna Comnena, disappears on a quest to learn more about an ancestor who roamed across Europe to Byzantium during the First Crusade. Kristeva's recurring characters, detective Northrop Rilsky and the French journalist Stephanie Delacour, step in and desperately try to piece together the two-part mystery in the midst of their unexpected love affair.

In the tradition of Umberto Eco, Susan Sontag, and Ian McEwan, Kristeva skillfully weaves philosophical and critical ideas into her fiction. Peering into the mores, obsessions, and excesses of contemporary society, Kristeva offers an engrossing portrait of Santa Varvara, a paradoxical place of sunshine and pollution where skeletons lurk in the closets of politicians and oil company executives. Her descriptions of the First Crusade and the Byzantine Empire vividly evoke a distant past while speaking to such contemporary concerns as immigration, fundamentalism, terrorism, and the East-West divide. Murder in Byzantium is also the only work in which Kristeva explores her Bulgarian roots. In the midst of this rich, multilayered historical novel, Kristeva also presents three stunning, closely observed, and interlocking portraits of characters struggling with loss and emptiness in their personal histories and day-to-day lives.

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Misleading
The Publisher has done injustice to the reader and author by comparing this novel to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.Whereas Eco's work is a rare jewel that seems to bet better with time, it cannot be compared to the current work.This author has her own voice and style that is much different than Eco.By making such claims, the reader familiar with the former work is naturally set up for a dissapointment and may miss what is good and notable in the present novel.

In particular, both authors have a great fund of knowlege of an area of history and have endeavored to create fiction using their historical and philosophical skills.The present author, unfortunately, creates diversions in her novel that distract the reader from becomming engrossed in the unique insights of the author.Such a novel should endeavor to educate and to entertain.The love affair between two of the main characters may serve as a basis for a subplot unpon which the main plot is built.In my opinion, however, it is an unwelcome distraction.

The author also attempts the difficult tast of moving back and forth between the remote past and the present, obviously an attempt to recreate the mindset of one of the murderers.This is necessary for the novel to work but either through translation or style it is awkward and sometimes difficult to follow.Faulkner was the master of this difficult genre and one shuns not the difficulty but admires the seamlessness.

Perhaps the most distracting and annoying part of the novel is the author's moralizing on current events in an attempt to create a thesis comparing 21st century American foreign policy to the Crusades.This is all well and good but the author here blurs the distinction between nonfiction and fiction.The art is in leading the reader to entertain such a thesis without stating it much less harping on it.

Finally, Eco's work is humble and patient in nature and despite his great intellect and grasp of his subject matter he never "talks down" to the reader.Here, one is annowed by the tone of the prose which is a bit snobbish and assumes a level of understanding and knowlege of facts, literature and events that few may have.In doing so, the author misses an opportunity to fully educate and share her deeper thoughts with a wider readership that will simply skim over the pedantic rantings to find out who done it.Tis a pity for the subject matter is rich and deserves better.

Nonetheless, the book is entertaining and worth reading.You would do better to approach it without the great expectations the publisher claims. ... Read more

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Both Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva have made an enormous impact throughout the humanities with their work on signification, identity and difference, and yet the nature of the relation between their theories seems oddly indeterminate: they have sometimes been regarded as more or less indistinguishable and sometimes as incompatible
This book aims at establishing precisely how Kristeva's and Derrida's writings may be articulated, tracing intersections and divergences, parallels and discontinuities between them. But how do you compare two theories of the production of difference? What conception of difference do you use to go about it? Any search for a dividing line between Derrida and Kristeva already engages with their preoccupations. Should the juxtaposition of these practices be conceived as a face-to-face confrontation or rather a gap, a hiatus? Could it be a dialectic? or a diff rance? Should it be thought of in terms of Kristeva's work . . . or Derrida's?
Accessible and lively, this bookstudies the theories on their own terms, in terms of one another, and with regard to the literary text, a privileged object of their attention. It demonstrates that the articulation of the theories shifts under different discursive conditions such that a Derridean reading of the relation is unlikely to coincide with a Kristevan interpretation. It shows why there is no single answer to the question of how the two fit together. And it investigates what is at stake in the strategic uses to which their work is put, whether separately or together. ... Read more

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In this touching and beautifully written book, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy traces her family's exile after their expulsion in 1492 at the time of Spanish unification. Their journey leads her to the exotic ports of Salonika, Constantinople, Bayonne, and Varna, to the cosmopolitan centers of Vienna and Paris, to America and Israel, and to Auschwitz. As she notes, while place and time separate us from those we love or never knew, something continues to link us. For Courtine-Denamy this "something" is, in part, language—the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) that is still spoken, whether on the banks of the Danube, on the Aegean Sea, or along the quays of the Seine.

This powerful and moving history of one woman's family will strike a chord with those who have experienced exile and displacement. Julia Kristeva's foreword, which describes the book as being like a "refreshing spring shower," unearths a political intention in this carefully crafted story. One of the undercurrents in The House of Jacob, she notes, seems to be an implied criticism of the language policies of the State of Israel, in particular the imposition of the "sacred" language of Hebrew as a medium of everyday exchange, of domesticity, and of intimacy. Courtine-Denamy presents Sephardic culture as a counterpoint to the perceived prevalence of Ashkenazi culture in forming Jewish identity. ... Read more

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This Is Not a Linguistics Textbook
While I agree with some of Dr. Trask's criticisms of this work, I think he is looking at this as a professor of linguistics might.I, too, was disappointed by some aspects of this book, but I must take issue with Dr. Trask describing such developments as semiotics as irrelevant to linguistics.If one wants an "initiation" into linguistics's place alongside of theory and literature, this work has at least some things to offer, especially Kristeva's exploration of language's status as an unknown since before the Socratics.

The work didn't go deeply enough and holds nothing near the fascination of her other superb works, such as "Revolution."To give it minus twelve stars is certainly an over-reaction, though.

Literature Ph.D. Student

Kristeva's sick joke
This book is a sick joke.In spite of her impressive-sounding title, the author knows nothing much about linguistics.The tiny amount of linguistics contained in this book is fragmented, antiquated, unintelligible, and copied out, apparently incomprehendingly, from other books.

There is nothing on sociolinguistics, nothing on psycholinguistics, nothing on historical linguistics, nothing on typology or universals, nothing on cognitive linguistics, nothing on semantics, nothing on pragmatics, nothing on language acquisition, nothing on computational linguistics, nothing on neurolinguistics or language disability, nothing on morphology, nothing on...well, you get the picture.There is nothing on any linguistics done since about 1960, and precious little on anything done earlier.

The few scraps on phonetics are copied from Saussure's 1916 Cours, for god's sake, and they are wrong.The few scraps on phonology are copied from a third-rate American textbook of the 1950s, and Kristeva has clearly not even understood what she has copied -- though, to be fair, the English translator has apparently introduced a blunder not present in the French original. The small amount of syntax is copied incomprehendingly from an ancient American book and from Noam Chomsky's first book, in 1957.

Nobody could possibly learn anything about linguistics from reading this book, which is a positive obstacle to understanding the subject.Most of the book consists of a potted history of linguistics -- there are far better histories available -- and of long chapters on irrelevancies like semiotics and psychoanalysis. There is also a good deal on writing, but Kristeva does not appear to know much about this topic, either.

The book is a disgrace, and I can't imagine why anybody thought an English translation was a good idea.Reading nothing at all is better than reading this mess.A proper rating would be about minus twelve stars, [...]

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In November 1996, Catherine Clément and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. In this collection of those letters Catherine Clément approaches the topic from an anthropologist's point of view while Julia Kristeva responds from a psychoanalytic perspective. Their correspondence leads them to a controversial and fundamental question: is there anything sacred that can at the same time be considered strictly feminine?

The two voices of the book work in tandem, fleshing out ideas and blending together into a melody of experience. The result is a dialogue that delves into the mysteries of belief -- the relationship between faith and sexuality, the body and the senses -- which, Clément and Kristeva argue, women feel with special intensity.

Although their discourse is not necessarily about theology, the authors consider the role of women and femininity in the religions of the world, from Christianity and Judaism to Confucianism and African animism. They are the first to admit that what they have undertaken is "as impossible to accomplish as it is fascinating." Nevertheless, their wide-ranging and exhilarating dialogue succeeds in raising questions that are perhaps more important to ask than to answer.