Julia Kristeva, trans. from the French by Lorna Scott Fox. Columbia Univ., $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-231-14960-0
Kristeva, a preeminent French linguist and psychoanalyst, continues her advance into literature with an impenetrable book about psychoanalyst Sylvia Leclercq’s intellectual dissection of Teresa of Ávila, a Catholic saint who flourished during the...
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Julia Kristeva, Author, Barbara Bray, Translator Columbia University Press $54 (341p) ISBN 978-0-231-07542-8
In a quote on the cover of Kristeva's first novel, Elaine Showalter equates the Bulgarian-born critic and psychoanalyst with Simone de Beauvoir. Like de Beauvoir, Kristeva was at the center of an intellectual movement, and like de Beauvoir she has...
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Julia Kristeva, Author, Barbara Bray, Translator Columbia University Press $45 (183p) ISBN 978-0-231-08020-0
Kristeva, a French linguistics professor and psychoanalyst who writes on semiotics and literature (Desire in Language), has built a postmodern parable around the polarities of inertia and action, conformism and individuality, barbarism and...
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Julia Kristeva, Author, Jane Marie Todd, Translator Columbia University Press $75.5 (521p) ISBN 978-0-231-12896-4
In this final volume of her trilogy on female genius (Hannah Arendt; Malanie Klein), Parisian linguistics professor Kristeva employs her prodigious arsenal of feminist scholarship and psychoanalytic prowess to prove why the French author of Cheri...
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Julia Kristeva, Author, Ross Guberman, Translator Columbia University Press $75.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-231-12102-6
The author of Desire in Language and Powers of Horror takes on the author of The Human Condition and Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil in a new intellectual biography. Theorist, critic and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, who...
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Julia Kristeva, Author, C. Jon Delogu, Translator , trans. from the French by C. Jon Delogu. Columbia Univ. $29.50 (249p) ISBN 978-0-231-13636-5
In renowned French critic Kristeva's rambling historical mystery, Stephanie Delacour, a Paris journalist, goes to cover the hunt for a serial killer in the city of Santa Varvara, "the paradise of various mafia groups and sects," where...
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Julia Kristeva, Author, Beverley Bie Brahic, Translator , trans. from the French by Beverley Bie Brahic. Columbia Univ. $19.95 (115p) ISBN 978-0-231-14784-2
Kristeva (Powers of Horror
) delivers a focused and insightful discussion of religious belief. With material culled from various interviews, articles and lectures, the book is less a unified argument than a sprawling analysis of religion in major...
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Julia Kristeva, trans. from the French by Jeanine Herman, Columbia Univ., $29.50 (336p) ISBN 978-0-231-14324-0
Religion, art, fiction, and the psyche are probed but rarely illumined in these murky philosophical treatises, culled from the author's essays, lectures, case studies, and interviews. Kristeva (Hannah Arendt), a French linguist, novelist, and...
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Julia Kristeva, trans. from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer. Columbia Univ., $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-231-18046-7
Kristeva’s marvelously strange novel about a woman captivated by an 18th-century artifact reads like a philosophical treatise wrapped in a love story with a little mystery mixed in. Nivi Delisle is a Parisian psychoanalyst and magazine editor...
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Julia Kristeva, edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman, trans. from the French by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Columbia Univ., $35 (384p) ISBN 978-0-231-17144-1
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and novelist Kristeva (The Severed Head) has produced a heavy-going collection of scholarly essays, written in dense poststructuralist academese. Its topics include “maternal eroticism,” disability, secularism and
religion,
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Julia Kristeva. Columbia Univ, $20 (112p) ISBN 978-0-231-20332-6
Philosopher Kristeva (Powers of Horror) reflects on her lifelong fascination with Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s work in this erudite if academic account. Starting with her childhood obsession with the author, Kristeva asks: “Can you like Dostoyevsky?” before
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Julia Kristeva, trans. from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer. Columbia Univ, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-231-21051-5
Kristeva (The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt), a linguistics professor emerita at the University of Paris, delivers a soporific, unfocused study on Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky. An opening account of what Dostoyevsky’s work has meant to...
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