Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection: 211094

Author(s) : Julia Kristeva

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection: 211094

Book Details

  • Publisher : Columbia U.P.
  • Published : 1984
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 711
  • ISBN 13 : 9780231053471
  • ISBN 10 : 0231053479

About the Author(s)

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

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