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Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three 20th-century writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Roland Barthes.

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Kristeva is a figure of far-reaching eloquence. -- Denis Donaghue Washington Post

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Introduction 1. What Revolt Today? 2. The Sacred and Revolt: Various Logics 3. The Metamorphoses of "Language" in the Freudian Discovery (Freudian Models of Language) 4. Oedipus Again; or, Phallic Monism 5. On the Extraneousness of the Phallus; or, the Feminine Between Illusion and Disillusion 6. Aragon, Defiance, and Deception: A Precursor? 7. Sartre; or, "We Are Right to Revolt" 8. Roland Barthes and Writing as Demystification

The Sense and NonSense of Revolt

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 30/03/2000
      ISBN13: 9780231109963, 978-0231109963
      ISBN10: 0231109962
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      Literary theory Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three 20th-century writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Roland Barthes.

      Trade Review
      Kristeva is a figure of far-reaching eloquence. -- Denis Donaghue Washington Post

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. What Revolt Today? 2. The Sacred and Revolt: Various Logics 3. The Metamorphoses of "Language" in the Freudian Discovery (Freudian Models of Language) 4. Oedipus Again; or, Phallic Monism 5. On the Extraneousness of the Phallus; or, the Feminine Between Illusion and Disillusion 6. Aragon, Defiance, and Deception: A Precursor? 7. Sartre; or, "We Are Right to Revolt" 8. Roland Barthes and Writing as Demystification

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