With published work spanning more than forty years, Julia Kristeva's influence in psychoanalysis and literary theory is difficult to overstate. In addition to this scholarship Kristeva has written several novels, however this portion of her oeuvre has received comparatively scant attention. In this book, Kristeva scholars from a number of disciplines analyze her novels in relation to her work in psychoanalysis, interrogating the relationships between fiction and theory. The essays explore questions including, what is the value of experimental writing that escapes easy definition and classification, putting ideas at the same level as character, pacing, plot, suspense, form, and style? And, how might such fiction help its readers overcome the psychological maladies that affect contemporary society? The contributors make a compelling case for understanding Kristeva's fiction as a crucial influence to her wider psychoanalytic project.
| ISBN: | 9781438448268 |
| Publication date: | 2nd July 2014 |
| Author: | Benigno Trigo |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 195 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series, Insinuations |
| Genres: |
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Structuralism and Post-structuralism Literary theory Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Semiotics / semiology Literature: history and criticism Crime and Mystery Philosophy |