Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #22671 in Books
- Published on: 1984-05-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 219 pages
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About the Author
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.
Customer Reviews
Exellent, eloquent, elegant...
This essay on the fascinating subject of the horrifying is really worthwhile reading for fans of the mysterious and macabre, or for serious readers interested in textual and contextual problems of the genre(s). Especially her study of Dostojevskij is brilliant!
Uncanny...astonishing...
Kristeva rules... To everyone who has some interest in the ABJECT matter, here's the Bible! Uncanny...




