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- About this book
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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'.
- About the authors
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ANNA SMITH
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 3-10
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‘Strangers to Ourselves’
Pages 11-50
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The Space of Travel: Reading and the Female Voyager
Pages 51-82
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‘Language the Unknown’
Pages 85-129
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‘Into the Cellar of the Native House’: Kristeva and Psychoanalysis
Pages 130-183
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Julia Kristeva
- Book Subtitle
- Readings of Exile and Estrangement
- Authors
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- A. Smith
- Copyright
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights only for USA, Canada. dual edition
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-37207-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230372078
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-333-62922-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-312-16434-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 246
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