A leading literary critic and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva is
one of the most significant French thinkers writing today. In this
up-to-date survey of her work, John Lechte outlines fully and
systematically her intellectual development. He traces it from her
work on Bakhtin and the logic of poetic language in the 1960s,
through her influential theories of the symbolic and the semiotic
in the 1970s, to her analyses of horror, love, melancholy and
cosmopolitanism in the 1980s. He provides an insight into the
intellectual and historical context which gave rise to Kristeva s
thought, showing how thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Emile
Benviste and Georges Bataille have been important in stimulating
her own reflections. He concludes with an overall assessment of
Kristeva s work, looking in particular at her importance for
feminism and postmodern thought in general.
Essential reading for all those who wish to extend their
understanding of this important thinker, this first full-length
study of Kristeva s work will be of interest to students of
literature, sociology, critical theory, feminist theory, French
studies and psychoanalysis.
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