Reading Kristeva with Kristeva

In the Beginning Was Love : Psychoanalysis and Faith by 
 Julia 
 Kristeva

Joshua Roe University of Oxford Kristeva : The Individual , the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text

The aim of this study is to develop from Kristeva’s account of time and semiotics the conditions of possibility for a new approach to interpreting the Bible. This will be set against the background of feminist biblical criticism, beginning from Esther Fuchs’s assessment of deception. She bases her comparison on the concept of deceptiveness but I will argue, using Lacan, that the aporia of desir...

Hard Drive: An Experiment in Intervisuality

Instead of intertextuality, can one perhaps speak of an intervisuality? As a way of understanding how the meaning of images are shaped by other images related to or existing around them? As for intervisuality, I’m drawing on notions of intertextuality as introduced by Julia Kristeva[1]. Kristeva referred to texts in terms of two axes: a horizontal axis connecting the author and reader of a text...

Digital Humanities 2010

The study of intertextuality, the shaping of a text’s meaning by other texts, remains a laborious process for the literary critic. Kristeva (Kristeva, 1986) suggests that "Any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another.& The nature of these mosaics is widely varied, from direct quotations representing a simple and overt intertextualit...

"Something covered with an old blanket": Nancy and other dead mothers in Oliver Twist.

In Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva outlines her theory of abjection as a simultaneous fascination and horror stemming from sensorial reminders of the subject's primal, psychological relation to the mother. In this essay, I show how these psychological perspectives can potentially result in acts of physical violence, which I call the "abject response." Applied to literatu...