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Powers of horror : an essay on abjection

Kristeva, Julia, 1941-2024
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Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors.
Main title:
Powers of horror : an essay on abjection / Julia Kristeva ; translated by Leon S. Roudiez.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]©2024
Collation:
x, 236 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780231214575 (pbk)
Dewey class:
809.93353809.9335
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
708732
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