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Description
Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse."
Product Details
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Publish Date | June 04, 1984 |
| Pages | 219 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780231053471 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.7 pounds |
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction
About the Author
Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Severed Head: Capital Visions, This Incredible Need to Believe, Hatred and Forgiveness, and Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila, all published by Columbia. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.
Reviews
Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others. . . ." [Powers of Horror]" is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on paraphilosophical modes of discourse.
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