The Kristeva Critical Reader

John Lechte is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University. A former student of Julia Kristeva's, he has published essays on Julia Kristeva's work, as well as Julia Kristeva (1990) and After the Revolution: On Kristeva (1998) (with Mary Zournazi). He has also published Key Contemporary Concepts (2003).

THE KRISTEVA CRITICAL READER; Edited by John Lechte and Mary Zournazi; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapters; 1. Roland Barthes, The Foreigner; 2. Michel Beaujour, A Propos of a Separation in Julia Kristeva's La Revolution du langage poetique; 3. Kelly Oliver, The Crisis of Meaning; 4. Stephen Bann, Three Images for Kristeva: From Bellini to Proust; 5. Juliet Flower MacCannell, Kristeva's Horror; 6. Karen Piper, The Signifying Corpse: Re-reading Kristeva on Marguerite Duras; 7. Juliana de Nooy, How to Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs: Translating Possession into Revolt in Kristeva; 8. Anne-Marie Smith, Transgression, Transubstantiation, Transference; 9. Ewa Ziarek, The Uncanny Style of Kristeva's Critique of Nationalism; 10. Miglena Nikolchina, The Lost Territory: Parables of Exile in Julia Kristeva; 11. Anna Smith, Another Look at Narcissism: Kristeva, Proust and Object; Relations; 12. John Lechte, Love, Life, Complexity and the 'Flesh' in Kristeva's Writing Experience; 13. Julia Kristeva, The Meaning of Parity; Glossary; Julia Kristeva Bibliography; Works cited; Bi-Lines.