Word: kristeva
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Receiving honorary degrees in this morning's ceremony are: Kenneth J. Arrow, Bernard Bailyn, Herbert Block, Louise Bourgeois, Andrew F. Brimmer, David R. Cox, Alan Greenspan, Julia Kristeva and Mario Vargas Llosa...
...Julia Kristeva...
...Kristeva, the director of the Doctoral Programin Language, Literatures and Civilizations at theUniversity of Paris, is a noted literary theoristand linguist...
Taken by Julia Kristeva's words about women's desire and by Virginia Woolf's ideas about the oppression of women and self-realization through work, Stevens entered another phase in which she merged visual and literary artistry into her paintings. "Sea of Words" is one product of her experimentation. Four faceless women are presented in skiffs, struggling against a blur of repeated words accented in gold and white lettering a metaphor for women activists who are struggling to go somewhere, to achieve some goal. According to Stevens, using words is like employing "another tool, another color." Indeed, this method...
...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...