Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva (Bulgarian: Юлия Кръстева; born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot. Kristeva became influential in international critical analysis, cultural theory and feminism after publishing her first book Séméiôtiké in 1969.

Works

(in French unless noted)

• Séméiôtiké: recherches pour une sémanalyse, Paris: Seuil, 1969.
  • Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. (English)

Literature

• Clare Cavanagh, "Pseudo-Revolution in Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva and the Russian Avant-Garde", Slavic Review 52:2 (Summer 1993), pp 283-297. (English)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Kristeva