Julia Kristeva: Readings of Exile and Estrangement

Smith, A.

Literature can have a disturbing effect on its readers. It unsettles our hold on everyday experience and makes us strangers and exiles. Anna Smith argues that this is the side of literature which attracts critic and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. Kristeva is drawn to states of extremity where language and the psyche are under duress, and in this book Smith examines the way the alchemical properties of words may transform these extremities into what Kristeva calls 'a fire of tongues, an exit from representation'.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1996-11-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333629222

DOI: 10.1057/9780230372078

Dimensions: 216cm x138cm

Pages: 246