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Julia Kristeva

Readings of Exile and Estrangement

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  • © 1996

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  1. Anna Smith

    1. University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introducing the Subject

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Anna Smith
      Pages 3-10

    3. ‘Strangers to Ourselves’

      • Anna Smith
      Pages 11-50

    4. The Space of Travel: Reading and the Female Voyager

      • Anna Smith
      Pages 51-82

  3. Speaking in Tongues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. ‘Language the Unknown’

      • Anna Smith
      Pages 85-129

    3. ‘Into the Cellar of the Native House’: Kristeva and Psychoanalysis

      • Anna Smith
      Pages 130-183

    4. Changing the Alphabet: Event as Revelation

      • Anna Smith
      Pages 184-212

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 213-246
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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'.

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  • University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    Anna Smith

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