Surprise Castle
/Books/Social Sciences/Core Disciplines
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Paperback

by Julia Kristeva
$26.99

Choose Option

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Paperback

$26.99
$24.00
Paperback

Paperback

$38.99
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Availability:In StockContributor:Julia KristevaSeries:European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural CriticismPublish date:2024-02-13Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231214575ISBN-10:023121457XUPC:9780231214575Book Category:Literary Criticism, PsychologyBook Subcategory:American, MovementsBook Topic:Hispanic & Latino, PsychoanalysisSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SC98GCTJZJ
In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231214575ISBN-10:023121457XUPC:9780231214575Book Category:Literary Criticism, PsychologyBook Subcategory:American, MovementsBook Topic:Hispanic & Latino, PsychoanalysisSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SC98GCTJZJ
Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 "for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature."
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Contributor(s)

Julia Kristeva

Author

Julia Kristeva

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.

Recently Viewed

View All