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Passions of Our Time
Julia Kristeva
Culture Columbia University Press 9780231171441 Available
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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks
Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”
Identifier: 9780231171441
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Translation translation
edited by Susan Petrilli
General Semiotics Rodopi 9042009470 Available
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Annotation: Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world.In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis.But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.
Identifier: 9042009470
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La Traduzione
edited by Susan Petrilli
General Semiotics Meltemi editore 8883530349 Available
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Annotation: This issue of Athanor is a collection of contributions by specialists from different disciplinary fields - semiotics, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and biology - on the problems of translation. We can distinguish them on the basis of two orientations. One consists in limiting the question of translation to the realm of verbal language or, more specifically, to the relationship between historical-natural languages, or, again, to the more restricted realm of literary and poetic translation. The other, instead, aims to broaden the field of investigation to intersemiotic translation, between different non-verbal languages and even outside of human languages, to the point of including translations of a specifically biological nature that are the object of study of biosemiotics - such as for example, the three different types of translation in the nutritional system that constitute the difference between plants, animals and mushrooms - or the cyborg translation between organic and inorganic made possible by current technological development. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 8883530349
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Reading our world
Mari Peepre | Nely Keinänen
Literature Yliopistopaino / Helsinki University Press 9515704618 Available
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Other title information: a guide to practical and theoretical criticism
Annotation: Reading our World is intended to be read as a practical guide to reading and appreciating good writing. It will furnish you with the practical tools you need to deal with literary analysis, including the techniques, and the terminology for practical literary criticism, as well as the broader concepts which underpin the study of literature as an art form. It will show you how to "read your world" in a way that might just change it for you.
Identifier: 9515704618
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Semiotics and the modern Quebec novel
Paul Perron
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- a Greimassian analysis of Thériault's Agaguk
Literature University of Toronto Press 0802009263 Available
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Annotation: The most popular novel in Quebec since the Second World War, Yves Theriault's Agaguk was published just before the Quiet Revolution, a period of major political and cultural transformation that radically altered Quebec society at the beginning of the 1960s. In this original socio-semiotic reading of the novel in translation, inspired by A.J. Greimas and the Paris School of Semiotics, Paul Perron examines the Inuit setting and characters of Agaguk as metaphors for Quebec society. Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel is one of the few semiotic analyses to deal with an entire novel, and illustrates the heuristic value of this complex methodology with respect to long prose texts in English.
Identifier: 0802009263
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The eyes of justice
edited by Roberta Kevelson
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- Seventh Round Table on Law and Semiotics
Social P. Lang 0820422614 Available
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Annotation: The general topic of this book, miscarried justice, is suggested by the title's allusion to the sightlessness of th proverbial representation of justice. Viewpoints from several academic disciplines, e.g. philosophy, sociology, linguistics, criminal justice, literary criticisms, and religious studies, are brought together with theories of law. This collection is not only interdisciplinary, but cross-cultural as well. The common language is 'legal semiotics', in both a Peircean and non_peircean idiolect. This collection is a rich cross-referential research tool for investigators of law and semiotics in all its aspects. -cover
Identifier: 0820422614
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Adorno und Derrida
Holger Mathias Briel
Philosophy Peter Lang Publishing 0820420255 Available
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Other title information: Oder Wo Liegt Das Ende Der Moderne?
Annotation: Der erste tell der Arbeit untersucht Derridas Dissemination und Adornos Asthetische Theorie in bezug auf deren angaben zur Asthetik. Im zweiten teil der arbeit geht es dann um die Andwendungen dieser Theorien, wobei Adornos Essays uber Stefan George und Derridas Text zur Lyrik Paul Celans, Schibboleth, diakritisch uberpruft werden.
Identifier: 0820420255
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Det Dialogiska Ordet
Mikhail Bakhtin (Michail Bachtin)
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- 3 edition
General Semiotics Anthropos 918577209X Available
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Annotation: Alla gångbara cynismer och sofismer om konstnärliga schabloners ofrånkomlighet och subjektets undergång i vår komplicerade massmediala värld etc sopas bort av Bachtins enkla uppmaning att konsten på allvar, att svara på det tilltal som riktas mot en: "För det som jag förstått och upplevt i konsten är jag skyldig att ansvara med mitt liv, så att allt det som jag upplevt och förstått inte skall vara verkningslöst i livet." All common cynicisms and sophisms about the inevitability of artistic templates and the demise of the subject in our complicated mass media world, etc., are swept away by Bakhtin's simple call to take art seriously, to respond to the appeal that is made to one: "For what I have understood and experienced in art, I am obliged to be responsible with my life, so that all that I have experienced and understood shall not be ineffective in life." (Translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 918577209X
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Semiotics and the philosophy of language
Umberto Eco
General Semiotics Indiana University Press 0253351685 Available
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Annotation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language comprehends the entire tradition of the doctrine of signs, threading its way through the symbolic and allegorical readings of the Holy Scriptures, the varying insights of the fields of philosophy and rhetoric, and into (and out of) the various positions of modern literary criticism. Individual chapters are devoted to the nature of signs; the theory of definition; the cognitive function of metaphors and symbols; mirror images, painting, film, and television; and the role of inference in the interpretation of texts
Identifier: 0253351685
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Cinders
Jacques Derrida; translated | edited by Ned Lukacher
Philosophy University of Nebraska Press 0803216890 Available
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Annotation: Cinders is among Derrida's most remarkable and revealing of this distinguished author's many writings. While Derrida customarily devotes his powers of analysis to exacting readigs of texts from Plato to Aristotle and Freud to Heidegger, readers of Cinders will soon discover that Derrida is engaged in a poetic self-analysis.
Identifier: 0803216890
Status: Available