Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva (Юлия Кръстева; 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 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)
- La Révolution Du Langage Poétique: L'avant-Garde À La Fin Du Xixe Siècle, Lautréamont Et Mallarmé, Paris: Seuil, 1974.
- Revolution in Poetic Language, New York: Columbia University Press, 1984, IA. Abridged trans. (English)
- Des Chinoises, Des Femmes, 1974; Pauvert, 2001.
- About Chinese Women, London: Boyars, 1977. (English)
- Polylogue, Paris: Seuil, 1977.
- Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection, Paris: Seuil, 1980.
- Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, trans. Leon S. Roudiez, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982, IA. (English)
- Histoires d'amour, Paris: Denoël, 1983.
- Au commencement était l'amour. Psychanalyse et foi, Textes du xxe siècle, Hachette, 1985.
- In the Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith, Columbia University Press, 1987. (English)
- Soleil noir. Dépression et mélancolie, Paris: Gallimard, 1987; 1994, IA.
- Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Columbia University Press, 1989. (English)
- with Catherine Clément, Le Féminin et le Sacré, Paris: Editions Stock, 1988.
- The Feminine and the sacred, trans. Jane Marie Todd, New York and Lonond: Columbia University Press and Palgrave, 2001, IA. (English)
- Étrangers à nous-mêmes, Paris: Fayard, 1988.
- Strangers to Ourselves, Columbia University Press, 1991. (English)
- Les Nouvelles Maladies de l'âme, Paris: Fayard, 1993.
- New Maladies of the Soul, Columbia University Press, 1995. (English)
- Visions Capitales, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1998; Martinière, 2013.
- The Severed Head: Capital Visions, Columbia University Press, 2011. (English)
- Le Génie féminin, 1: Hannah Arendt, Paris: Fayard, 1999; t. 2: Melanie Klein, Paris: Gallimard, 2003; t. 3: Colette, Paris: Fayard, 2002.
- Female Genius: Life, Madness, Words: Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein, Colette: A Trilogy, 3 vols., Columbia University Press, 2001.
- Crisis of the European Subject, New York: Other Press, 2000. Collection of four essays. (English)
- Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. (English)
- with Philippe Petit, Revolt, She Said, trans. Brian O’Keeffe, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, New York: Semiotext(e), 2002. Interview. (English)
- La Haine et le Pardon, Paris: Fayard, 2005.
- Hatred and Forgiveness, Columbia University Press, 2010. (English)
- Meurtre à Byzance, Paris: LGF, 2006.
- Murder in Byzantium: A Novel, trans. C. Jon Delogu, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. (English)
- more at ARG
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)
- Toril Moi, editor, The Kristeva Reader, New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, IA. (English)
- Noelle McAfee, Julia Kristeva, New York and London: Routledge, 2004. (English)
- Tina Chanter, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, editors, Revolt, Affect, Collectivity. The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005, IA. (English)
