Table of Contents

I. Approaching Abjection 2. Something to Be Scared Of 3. From Filth to Defilement 4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination 5... Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi 6. Celine: Neither Actor nor Martyr 7. Suffering and Horror 8. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite 9. "Ours to Jew or Die" 10. In the Beginning and Without End... 11. Powers of Horror

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Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others...[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. The sections on Celine, for example, are indispensable reading for those interested in this writer and place him within a context that is both illuminating and of general interest. -- Paul de Man

About the Author

Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature and the novel, Possessions.

Reviews

Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others. . . ." [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 paraphilosophical modes of discourse.