Julia Kristeva

Powers of Horror

An Essay on Abjection
Übersetzer: Roudiez, Leon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Celine, Proust, Joyce, and other authors.

Produktdetails

• European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780231214575
• ISBN-10: 023121457X
• Artikelnr.: 68272444

Autorenporträt

Julia Kristeva. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Note
I. Approaching Abjection
2. Something to Be Scared Of
3. From Filth to Defilement
4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination
5.... Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
6. Céline: Neither Actor nor Martyr
7. Suffering and Horror
8. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite
9. "Ours to Jew or Die"
10. In the Beginning and Without End...
11. Powers of Horror
Notes
Index