Julia Kristeva And Literary Theory

Julia Kristeva has sparked considerable debate among feminist, political and psychoanalytic thinkers, securing her status as one of the most formidable figures in twentieth-century critical theory. However, her precise relevance to the study of literature can be hard for new readers to fathom. This volume explores Kristeva's definitions of literature, her methods for analyzing it, and the theoretical ground on which those endeavors are based.

Megan Becker-Leckrone is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

General Editor's Preface

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiv

Part I Theoretical Grounds

1

(42)

1 The Objects, Objectives, and Objectivity of Textual Analysis

3

(16)

Kristeva in the English department

3

(3)

'Archivists, archaeologists, and necrophiliacs"

6

(2)

Formalist machines, New Critical puddings, and the "text"

8

(7)

From application to implication

15

(4)

2 The Subject, the Abject, and Psychoanalysis

19

(24)

From object to subject

19

(1)

The decentered subject and psychoanalysis

20

(5)

The subject, in the beginning

25

(5)

"Before the beginning"

30

(2)

"Neither subject nor object"

32

(3)

"Approaching abjection"

35

(2)

The sublime turn

37

(6)

Part II Reading Kristeva, Reading Literature

43

(107)

3 Céline's Pharmacy

45

(45)

Taking it the wrong way

45

(7)

Letter bombs: the rhythms of abjection

52

(14)

Tangles and cuts: narrating abjection in Céline's Journey to the End of the Night

66

(11)

Strange fruit: the Rhetoric of Abjection in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"

77

(8)

Ad nauseam

85

(5)

4 Joyce's "Quashed Quotatoes"

90

(45)

James Joyce/Julia Kristeva

90

(2)

Intertextuality, intersubjectivity, and the death of the author

92

(6)

The Menippean and a literary tradition of otherness

98

(9)

Transposition and the portmanteau word

107

(4)

New associations: music, the body, and the dissident

111

(5)

"a wildgoup's chase"

116

(3)

Identification, transubstantiation, and love

119

(13)

What does it matter who's speaking?

132

(3)

5 Wordsworth's Tales of Love

135

(15)

Poststructuralism's "other Wordsworth"

135

(3)

The poet at the "end of the line"

138

(2)

Kristeva and the pre-Oedipal Wordsworth

140

(4)

Reading love in the "Blessed Babe"

144

(3)

New Narcissi and a criticism to come

147

(3)

Glossary

150

(17)

Notes

167

(16)

Annotated Bibliography

183

(19)

Bibliography

202

(8)

Index

210

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