Powers of horror : an essay on abjection

Author(s)

• Kristeva, Julia
• Roudiez, Leon Samuel

Bibliographic Information

Powers of horror : an essay on abjection

Julia Kristeva ; translated by Leon S. Roudiez

（European perspectives）

Columbia University Press, c1982

• : hardcover
• : pbk

Other Title

Pouvoirs de l'horreur

Note

Originally published in France in 1980

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse."

Table of Contents

I. Approaching Abjection 2. Something to Be Scared Of 3. From Filth to Defilement 4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination 5... Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi 6. Celine: Neither Actor nor Martyr 7. Suffering and Horror 8. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite 9. "Ours to Jew or Die" 10. In the Beginning and Without End... 11. Powers of Horror

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Details

• NCID: BA04478329
• ISBN:
  • 0231053460
  • 9780231053471
• LCCN: 82004481
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 219 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ2607.E834
  • DC19 : 843/.912
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Horror in literature
  • LCSH : Abjection in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00302364