Revolution in Poetic Language Fifty Years Later : New Directions in Kristeva Studies / edited by Emilia Angelova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angelova, Emilia, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in gender theory.

SUNY Series in Gender Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kristeva, Julia, 1941-.

Kristeva, Julia.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry"-- Provided by publisher.

In her 1974 Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva resisted the abstract use of language, with its aim of totalization and finality, in all its colonizing and alienating forms. A major thinker and critic, Kristeva reappropriated Hegel's concepts of desire and negativity, in conjunction with the thought of Heidegger, Arendt, Freud, and Lacan, to revolt against modernity's culture of nihilism and the West's inability to deal with loss. This collection celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Revolution in Poetic Language by revisiting Kristeva's oeuvre and establishing exciting new directions in Kristeva studies. Engaging with queer and transgender studies, disability studies, decolonial studies, and more, renowned and rising scholars plot continuities in--and push the boundaries of--Kristeva's thinking about loss, revolution, and revolt. The volume also includes two essays by Kristeva, translated into English for the first time here--"The Impossibility of Loss" (1988) and "Of What Use Are Poets in Times of Distress?" (2016).

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Editor's Acknowledgments

Introduction: Revolutionary Practice and the Subject-in-Process

Beyond Feminism: Engaging Kristeva for Decolonial, Trans, and Disability Studies

The Evolving Meaning of Ontological Loss: From Revolution to Revolt

Division into Chapters

Notes

References

Part One: Two New Texts by Kristeva

Chapter 1: Editor's Introduction to Julia Kristeva's "The Impossibility of Loss" (1988)

Chapter 2: The Impossibility of Loss

Thing and Object

The Act Would Be Merely Reprehensible

A Blank Perversion

Don Juan's Wife: Sorrowful or Terrorist

Roundtable

Chapter 3: Of What Use Are Poets in Times of Distress?

Context of Julia Kristeva's Public Lecture, in Minutes of the Ministry of Culture and Communications

Part Two: Beyond Feminism: Engaging Kristeva for Decolonial, Trans, and Disability Studies

Chapter 4: Julia Kristeva's Maternal Ethics of Tenderness

Introduction

Ethics of Tenderness

Chapter 5: Kristeva in a Trans Poetic Frame

Introduction: Julia Kristeva and the Transgender Turn

Between Sex and Gender: The Empty Violence of Dualism

Poetic Revolt and Trans Resistance

Conclusion: Questioning Abstraction, Questioning Revolt

Chapter 6: Stranger than Other Strangers: On the Crossroads between Subjectivity and Language in Kristeva and Anzaldúa

Revolution in Poetic Language Revisited: A Liminal Politics of Polyphony

Stranger than Other Strangers

Monsters of the Crossroads: Heterogeneity and Strangeness in the Borderlands

Chapter 7: Theories of Poetic Resistance: Julia Kristeva and Sylvia Wynter

Julia Kristeva and the Poetic

Sylvia Wynter and the Poetic

Contradictions and Interventions.

Returning to Kristeva

Multiplicity

Sociogeny

Returning to Kristeva

Return to Wynter

Conclusion

Chapter 8: Proust among the Patients: Kristeva on Proust, Psychoanalysis, and Politics

Part Three: The Evolving Meaning of Ontological Loss: From Revolution to Revolt

Chapter 9: From Praxis to Chōra: The Filter of (In)Humanization in Julia Kristeva's Early Work

Preliminary Remarks

Politics of the Avant-garde: Always Dissident

The Case of Praxis

From One Practice to Another

The Semiotic, the Chōra: Why Two Terms?

The Nombre

The Nombrant

The F(eminine) Boson

Chapter 10: The Mental Image and the Spectacular Imaginary: Kristeva with Lacan and Sartre

The Mirror Stage, Castration, and Subject Formation

Lacan's Mirror Stage and Castration

Kristeva on Lacan's Mirror Stage and Castration

The Mirror Stage of the Spectacle

From Lacan to Sartre

Kristeva on Sartre's Mental Image and the Imaginary

Conclusion: The Spectacular Imaginary

Chapter 11: Rhythm and the Semiotic in Revolution in Poetic Language

Rhythm between the Semiotic and the Symbolic

Rhythm and Transposition

Rhythm and the Effraction of the Thetic

Rhythm and the Text as a Practice

A Structural Sketch of Semiotic Rhythm

Rhythm and Philosophical Practice

Chapter 12: Excription and the Negativity of the Speaking Subject: Reading Kristeva with Heidegger

Temporal Latency of Grief and the Nonphenomenological Moment in Kristeva

The Chōra and the Archive-Sublimation, Where Kristeva's Green Differs from Derrida

Freud, the Speculative Hypothesis of the Death Drive and Hegel in 1974

In Conclusion: Semiotic Inscription

References.

Chapter 13: Kristeva and Arendt on Language, Sanity, and the Sensus Communis

"The only general symptom of insanity . . .": Sensus communis and Political Communication

The Other sensus communis and the Place of Intimacy

Conclusion: On the Street, in the Abyss

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781438498058

1438498055

OCLC:

1441722887