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Author Bové, Carol Mastrangelo.

Title Language and politics in Julia Kristeva : literature, art, therapy / Carol Mastrangelo Bové
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description x, 172 pages ; 22 cm
Series SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
Contents The eruption of conflict : revolution in poetic language -- A politics of desire : reading Proust with Kristeva -- Psychoanalysis, feminism, and remembrance -- Revisiting modernism : DeBeauvoir, Truffaut, and Renoir -- The two faces of the mother's mask : Céline and China -- Kristeva's work in the eighties : a new space for woman and love -- Fiction, fact, and theory : the world as flesh and blood
Summary "In Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva, Carol Mastrangelo Bove explores how Kristeva's theoretical and fictional writings contribute to an understanding of contemporary personal and international conflicts. In addition to examining Kristeva's turn to Eastern models - both Russian and Chinese - in thinking through a critique of symbolic language in Western patriarchal psychic formations. Bove also contributes to the debate over essentialism through innovative interpretations of such major works of twentieth-century French culture as Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay, Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim, and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Bove argues that the links between the body and the female, on the one hand, and authority and the male, on the other, are psychologically constructed, and are not necessarily or exclusively biological. The book concludes with an examination of Kristeva's Colette."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-169) and index
Subject Kristeva, Julia, 1941- -- Criticism and interpretation.
LC no. 2005004416
ISBN 0791466493 alkaline paper
9780791466490
0791466507 paperback alkaline paper
9780791466506