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abject
That which disturbs the self, by provoking either disgust, fear, loathing or repulsion. Belonging to the realm of the psychic, the abject is the excessive dimension of either a subject or an object ...
cultural difference
The complexity of each of the terms in the phrase cultural difference has evoked considerable debate. Raymond Williams (1958) places culture among the most complicated words in the English language ...
death of the author
A slogan coined in 1968 by the French critic R. Barthes in an iconoclastic essay that also called for the ‘birth of the reader’, into whose hands the determination of literary meanings should pass. ...
dialogism
1. In literary works, Bakhtin's term for a style of discourse in which characters express a variety of (potentially contradictory) points of view rather than being mouthpieces for the author: a ...
discourse analysis
Generally refers to approaches to the study of language that examine the conditions of possibility of particular statements and their effects. Discourse analysis, in this sense, situates specific ...
Éditions du Seuil
French publishing‐house founded in 1937 by Jean Bardet and Paul Flamand. After World War II it published contemporary authors such as Bernanos, Emmanuel, Pierre‐Henri Simon, Teilhard de Chardin, and ...
feminism and feminist theories
The discursive practices that inform semiotics as a field of inquiry have not overlooked the question of gender difference. Feminism as a critical discourse and sociopolitical movement is an ...
feminist criticism
A modern tradition of literary commentary and polemic devoted to the defence of women's writing or of fictional female characters against the condescensions of a predominantly male literary ...
feminist semiotics
Feminists' relations to semiotic theory are ambivalent. The theory affords a sophisticated understanding of women's subordinate condition as cultural, not natural. It must be transformed, however, if ...
Gayatri Spivak
(1942–)Indian-born postcolonial, post-structuralist, Marxistliterary critic and theorist. The daughter of middle-class parents, she was born in Calcutta at a time when India was still part of the ...
glossematics
Louis Hjelmslev's name for his theory of language. Like Ferdinand de Saussure, one of his key inspirations, Hjelmslev took the position that language is arbitrary in relation to the real world, which ...
Hélène Cixous
(1937– )Algerian-born French academic and feminist. In 1974 Cixous became director of the Centre de Recherche en Études Féminines at the university of Paris at Vincennes. She is particularly ...
intertextuality
The sum of relationships between and among writings. This modern critical term usually covers the range of ways in which one ‘text’ may respond to, allude to, derive from, mimic, or adapt another. ...
Jacques Lacan
(1901–81)French psychoanalyst and intellectual. Lacan was director of the École Freudienne de Paris from 1963, but his influence rested more on the series of seminars that he gave at the university ...
jouissance
[French ‘enjoyment’, connoting jouir ‘to come’ in the sexual sense]1. In psychoanalytic theory, for Lacan, an erotic ecstasy beyond the Freudian ‘pleasure principle’, akin to the ‘death drive’ since ...
khōra
The pre-linguistic or inchoate point of origin of the subject, for which the womb may stand as a figure, though the pre-biotic soup out of which all life is supposed to have emerged according to ...
Kristeva, Julia (b. 1941) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
(b. 1941).
French‐Bulgarian theorist, writer, psychoanalyst, and professor of linguistics; former member of the Tel
Kristeva, Julia (1941–) Reference library
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
(1941–)
Kristeva's work developed at the intersection of Marxism, structural linguistics, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory (see
Kristeva, Julia (b. 1941) Reference library
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
(b. 1941),
French linguist, semiotician, and psychoanalyst. Born in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva went to Paris
Kristeva, Julia Reference library
Thomas DiPiero
The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
(b. 1941),
French linguist, philosopher, feminist theorist, novelist, and psychoanalyst and a major figure in the post‐structuralist movement and beyond. Born in Bulgaria in ...
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