Desire in Language

A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

By: Julia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez (Editor), Thomas Gora (Translator), Alice Jardine (Translator)

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Paperback | 29 March 2024 | Edition Number 1

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Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. But the essays of Julia Kristeva in this volume, though they often deal with literature and art, do not amount to either "literary criticism" or "art criticism." Their concern, writes Kristeva, "remains intratheoretical: they are based on art and literature in order to subvert the very theoretical, philosophical, or semiological apparatus."

Probing beyond the discoveries of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Roman Jakobson and others, Julia Kristeva proposes and tests theories centered on the nature and development of the novel, and on what she has defined as a signifying practice in poetic language and pictural works. Desire in Language fully shows what Roman Jakobson has called Kristeva's "genuine gift of questioning generally adopted 'axioms,' and her contrary gift of releasing various 'damned questions' from their traditional question marks."

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Kristeva's depiction of contrariety and anomaly at the heart of postmodernist theory is ingenious, provocative, and challenging. * Contemporary Literature *
An important work for students of cultural processes and anyone interested in a semiotic approach to the problems of cultural history. -- Hayden White * Journal of Modern History *
A provocative rereading of a diverse and crucial canon. * Criticism *

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