Pouvoirs de L'horreur (English)

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Columbia University Press, 1982 - Literary Criticism - 219 pages

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."

 

Contents

APPROACHING ABJECTION
iii
SOMETHING TO BE SCARED OF
22
FROM FILTH TO DEFILEMENT
46
SEMIOTICS OF BIBLICAL ABOMINATION
80
QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI
103
CÉLINE NEITHER ACTOR NOR MARTYR
123
SUFFERING AND HORROR
130
THOSE FEMALES WHO CAN WRECK THE INFINITE
147
OURS TO JEW OR DIE
164
IN THE BEGINNING AND WITHOUT END
178
POWERS OF HORROR
197
NOTES
201
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About the author (1982)

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.

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