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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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14 Mar 2006 01:58:20 PM |
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OT: Julia Kristeva |
The ideas interview: Julia Kristeva
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1730246,00.html
Why is a great critic ashamed of being fashionable? By John Sutherland
Tuesday March 14, 2006
The Guardian
To her admirers, Julia Kristeva is one of the heroic band of French
critics who injected "theory" into the sluggish Anglo-Saxon cultural
bloodstream. To diehards on the other side, she is a prime exponent of
impenetrable and unnecessary critical complexities. One colleague, to
whom I mentioned her name replied with the single word "bonkers".
Another suggested she should get a Nobel prize.
She is particularly associated with three concepts, which she now seems
to wish to disown. Le semiotique is the idea that speech works as much
through sub-verbal codes as by what is actually said. The real work of
signification is done in the "cleavage between words and meanings".
This fascination with the sub- or pre-verbal is something that, looking
back, Kristeva now associates with the liturgy of the Orthodox Church:
"All my childhood was bathed in this," she says.
Julia Kristeva
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