Revolution in Poetic Language / Julia Kristeva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kristeva, Julia, author.

Series:

European perspectives.

European Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kristeva, Julia, 1941---Criticism and interpretation.

Kristeva, Julia.

Poetics.

Semiotics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface

Introduction, by Leon S. Roudiez

Prolegomenon

Part I. The Semiotic and the symbolic

1. The Phenomenological Subject of Enunciation

2. The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives

3. Husserl's Hyletic Meaning: A Natural Thesis

4. Hjelmslev's Presupposed Meaning

5. The Thetic: Rupture and/or Boundary

6. The Mirror and Castration Positing the Subject as Absent from the Signifier

7. Frege's Notion of Signification: Enunciation and Denotation

8. Breaching the Thetic: Mimesis

9. The Unstable Symbolic. Substitutions in the Symbolic: Fetishism

10. The Signifying Process

11. Poetry That is Not a Form of Murder

12. Genotext and Phenotext

13. Four Signifying Practices

Part II. Negativity: Rejection

14. The Fourth "Term" of the Dialectic

15. Independent and Subjugated "Force" in Hegel

16. Negativity as Transversal to Thetic Judgment

17. "Kinesis," "Cura," "Desire

18. Humanitarian Desire

19. Non-Contradiction Neutral Peace

20. Freud's Notion of Expulsion Rejection

Part III. Heterogeneity

21. The Dichotomy and Heteronomy of Drives

22. Facilitation, Stasis, and the Thetic Moment

23. The Homological Economy of the Representamen

24. Through the Principle of Language

25. Skepticism and Nihilism in Hegel and in the Text

Part IV. Practice

26. Experience Is Not Practice

27. The Atomistic Subject of Practice in Marxism

28. Calling Back Rupture within Practice: Experience-in-Practice

29. The Text as Practice, Distinct from Transference Discourse

30. The Second Overturning of the Dialectic after Political Economy, Aesthetics

31. Madoror and Poems, Laughter as Practice

32. The Expenditure of a Logical Conclusion: Igitur

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Kristeva, Julia Revolution in Poetic Language

ISBN:

0-231-56140-7

OCLC:

1419869681