Language: The Unknown: An Initiation into Linguistics (European Perspectives)

Language: The Unknown: An Initiation into Linguistics (European Perspectives)

by JKristeva (Author)

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-- Voice Literary Supplement

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 366
Edition: Reprinted edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 18 Nov 1991

ISBN 10: 0231061072
ISBN 13: 9780231061070

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[Kristeva's] graceful and lucid history of language ranges over vast intellectual territory--Egyptian hieroglyphs to psychoanalytic discourse, Crates of Mallos to Benveniste to Lvi-Strauss and Lacan. Guaranteed jargon-free. -- Voice Literary Supplement

Author Bio
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.