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Chapters: People From Sliven, Julia Kristeva, Anton Pann, Ofc Sliven 2000, Nikola Zhekov, Yordan Letchkov, Hadzhi Dimitar, Azis, Dimitar Dobrovich, Dobri Chintulov, Panayot Hitov, Svetlina Ad, Krastyo Asenov, Krassimir Avramov, Hadzhi Dimitar Stadium, Sava Dobroplodni, Yordan Gospodinov, Indzhe Voyvoda, Dimitar Stilianov, Yordan Asenov, Radoy Ralin, Margarit Abadjiev, Stefan Panaretov, Georgi Ivanov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anton Pann (born Antonie Pantoleon-Petroveanu, and also mentioned as Anton Pantoleon or Petrovici; 1790sNovember 2, 1854), was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher. Pann was an influential folklorist and collector of proverbs, as well as a lexicographer and textbook author. Pann was born sometime between 1794 and 1798, in Sliven, Rumelia (in today's Bulgaria). According to some accounts, his mother, Tomaida, was an ethnic Greek, while his father, Pantoleon Petrov, was of uncertain ethnic affiliation it is known that he worked as a coppersmith bucket-maker, which makes it likely that he was a Romani of the Kalderash caste. In Romania, the latter view is notably supported by Roma community activists, who cite Pann among the most prominent Romani artists. Various other interpretations state that Pantoleon Petrov, who died during Anton Pann's childhood, was Bulgarian, Aromanian, or Romanian. The writer, who was the youngest of Petrov and Tomaida's three sons, eventually adopted the family name Pann, as a colloquial contraction of his father's given name. After he began primary education at the communal school in Sliven, the Petrovs fled the region during the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812 and settled in Ch...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2473803 ... Read more

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Chapters: Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Jean-François Lyotard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Biosemiotics CodeComputational semioticsConnotation DecodeDenotation Encode LexicalLiterary semiotics ModalityRepresentation (arts) SalienceSemeiotic Semiosis SemiosphereSemiotic elements ... Read more

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julia kristeva review
Julia Kristeva: Readings of Exile and Estrangement Anna Smith MacMillan Press. 1996. I picked up this book with some interest as I had had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Smith lecture on Kristeva whilst I was at Canterbury. This review is going to be fairly general given thatthe books editor has warned me not to be too 'technical.' When I was reading the book I felt that it was important for two main reasons. It seems to me that one of the things one's time at university should do (and this seems to happen rarely) is to open the minds of its students, to make them ask questions, both about themselves and their relationship with society. Questioning the system is something which I fear does not happen enough in the post-rogernomic age of blah. This book (through the writings of Kristeva) questions the relationship of the individual to the language(s) that they use. For Kristeva, Smith, and many other writers this is an important beginning when analysing scoiety; especially when one is looking at those not as priviliged as the majority of us here at Victoria. For it is through language that we gain the framework that we use to build up our perception of the world. Smith's reading of Kristeva is aimed at giving us a new way of seeing our relationship to language; specifically the ways in which women are constructed within our (primarily) male language. Secondly I find it heartening that a New Zealander is interacting at an intellectual level with one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century. But then what is there to stop us? We, as a nation have a great many problems and it is only by dealing with the essentials, by engaging people, that we are going to make this country a better place. That is why I think that YOU should read this book. ... Read more

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A survey of the place of women in Chinese society. ... Read more

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Orientalism
Kristeva's early masterpiece that helped to solidify her reputation in the early 70s as a masterly leftist feminist can now be reread as indicative of the Orientalism of the Paris of the 1970s in which Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Philippe Sollers, and many others championed Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution.This revolution of the Parisian letters of the 1970s has now become a powerful wing of what is euphemistically called Cultural Studies, but which is actually a branch of Mao's Cultural Revolution, being played out today in almost every institution of higher education in America.

This book is the purest Orientalism of the kind that Edward Said complains about.She actually argues that because the future is so bright after the Cultural Revolution that the possibilities are unlimited.

It shows the left's prophetic powers in retrospect. ... Read more

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In November 1996, Catherine Clément and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. In this collection of those letters Catherine Clément approaches the topic from an anthropologist´s point of view while Julia Kristeva responds from a psychoanalytic perspective. Their correspondence leads them to a controversial and fundamental question: is there anything sacred that can at the same time be considered strictly feminine?The two voices of the book work in tandem, fleshing out ideas and blending together into a melody of experience. The result is a dialogue that delves into the mysteries of belief -the relationship between faith and sexuality, the body and the senses -which, Clément and Kristeva argue, women feel with special intensity.Although their discourse is not necessarily about theology, the authors consider the role of women and femininity in the religions of the world, from Christianity and Judaism to Confucianism and African animism. They are the first to admit that what they have undertaken is "as impossible to accomplish as it is fascinating." Nevertheless, their wide-ranging and exhilarating dialogue succeeds in raising questions that are perhaps more important to ask than to answer. ... Read more

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Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentieth century and is best known for her work in linguistics. Even though her work has been very influential, the political implications of her writings have so far been neglected. Kristeva and the Political is the first book to explore the relation of Kristeva's work to the political and casts new light on her work, connecting her to recent developments in literary theory, political theory, and cultural studies. In particular it shows how Kristeva's account of the unconscious and psychoanalysis generally, widens the notion of the political.

Each chapter introduces a fundamental theme in Kristeva's work, highlighting a specific period of development in her thought and drawing on texts from the 1960s through to the 1990s. Themes addressed include Kristeva's theory of discourse, the theory of the subject, the notion of alterity, feminism and marginality and her theory known as the 'politics of meaning'. Kristeva and the Political also shows how Kristeva's notions of the political draw on a rich array of thinkers and writers, from Freud, Melanie Klein and Lacan, to Proust and Marguerite Duras.

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Extrano estado aquel en que nos sumerge la lectura de Celine. Su verdadero milagro es el efecto de la lectura fascinante, misterioso, intimamente nocturno y liberador de una risa sin concesiones pero sin embargo complice, mas alla de los contenidos de las novelas, del estilo de la escritura, de la biografia del autor o de sus posiciones politicas insostenibles (fascistas y antisemitas). Como, donde, por que este universo celiniano nos interpela tan vigorosamente casi veinte anos despues de su muerte? ... Read more

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The author brilliantly pursues her readings of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Proust is presented here as the first modern writer to revel the sado-masochistic tendancies inherent in national, religious and sexual identities. His enigmatic characters and, above all, the Dreyfus Affair form the basis of Kristeva's exploration of these compelling questions. The material was originally delivered as the Zaharoff Lecture at the Taylor Instition, University of Oxford, 1997. ... Read more