Word: kristeva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jacques Lacan, whose posthumous presence in the collection reflects how the "death of the authors" has ironically inaugurated a backward-looking era for cultural literacy. At the same time, Blonsky's exclusive salon is also visited by still-vital voices such as Umberto Eco, Fredric Jameson and Julia Kristeva. The result is a surprisingly accessible sourcebook on the fallout of postmodern self-expressionism that tries to rescue semiotics from exclusive appropriation by French aesthete-intellectuals and present its current practice as an applied science for decoding the loaded meanings of everyday situations...