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M. Becker-Leckrone, Julia Kristeva and Literary Theory

M. Becker-Leckrone, Julia Kristeva and Literary Theory

Publié le par Julien Desrochers

Megan Becker-Leckrone, Julia Kristeva and Literary Theory, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 224 p.

ISBN: 0-333-78193-7

Book Description:

Julia Kristeva has sparked considerable debate among feminist, political and psychoanalytic thinkers, securing her status as one of the most formidable figures in twentieth-century critical theory. However, her precise relevance to the study of literature can be hard for new readers to fathom. This volume explores Kristeva's definitions of literature, her methods for analyzing it, and the theoretical ground on which those endeavors are based.


Table of Contents:

General Editor's PrefacePrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I Theoretical Grounds1 The Objects, Objectives, and Objectivity of Textual AnalysisKristeva in the English department"Archivists, archaeologists, and necrophiliacs"Formalist machines, New Critical puddings, and the "text"From application to implication2 The Subject, the Abject, and PsychoanalysisFrom object to subjectThe decentered subject and psychoanalysisThe subject, in the beginning"Before the beginning""Neither subject nor object"'Approaching abjection"The sublime turnPart II Reading Kristeva, Reading Literature3 Céline's PharmacyTaking it the wrong wayLetter bombs: the rhythms of abjectionTangles and cuts: narrating abjection in Céline's Journey to the End of the NightStrange fruit: the Rhetoric of Abjection in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"Ad nauseam4 Joyce's "Quashed Quotatoes"James Joyce/Julia KristevaIntertextuality, intersubjectivity, and the death of the authorThe Menippean and a literary tradition of othernessTransposition and the portmanteau wordNew associations: music, the body, and the dissident"a wildgoup's chase"Identification, transubstantiation, and loveWhat does it matter who's speaking?5 Wordsworth's Tales of LovePoststructuralism's "other Wordsworth"The poet at the "end of the line"Kristeva and the pre-Oedipal WordsworthReading love in the "Blessed Babe"New Narcissi and a criticism to comeGlossaryNotesAnnotated BibliographyBibliographyIndex