Table of Contents
Introduction
Kristeva at the Bleeding-Edge of Modernism
Maria Margaroni, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Part I: Conceptualizing Kristeva
1. Kristeva Telle Quelle: A Seductive Encounter
Danielle Marx-Scouras, Ohio State University, USA
2. Julia Kristeva: Chora, Infinity, Modernism
John Lechte, Macquarie University, Australia
3. Indifferent Feminine: Kristeva and the Avant-Garde
Miglena Nikolchina, Sofia University, Bulgaria
4. Modernist Trajectories in Time: Kristeva's The Enchanted Clock
Carol Mastrangelo-Bové, University of Pittsburgh, USA
5. Sanctity and Scandal: Teresa and the Challenge of 19th century 'False Mysticism'
Martha J. Reineke, University of Northern Iowa, USA
6. Kristeva's Traumatic Real: Securing the Symbolic Nation through the Law of the Veil
Tina Chanter, Newcastle University, UK
7. Kristeva on Arendt: Politics and the Subject
Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA
Part II: Kristeva and Aesthetics
8. Modernism Unleashed and Restrained: Joyce, Céline and Arendt in Kristeva's Tale of the Century
Marios Constantinou, Independent Scholar, Cyprus
9. The Fabric of Gothic Modernism: Powers of Horror in M. R. James's 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
Nicholas Chare, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada
10. The Impact of Kristeva's Theory of Abjection on Modernist Art
Rina Arya, University of Huddersfield, UK
11. Androgynous and a Foreigner: Orlando's Revolt
Christina Kkona, Bordeaux-Montaigne University, France
12. 'Let it end, this cold insanity. Let it happen.' Kristeva's Melancholic Modernism and the Parisian Novels of Jean Rhys
Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
13. The Mirror Before the Mirror: Reflections on Kristeva and Martha Graham's Hérodiade
Robert R. Shane, College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, USA
Part III: Glossary
14. Abjection
David Koloszyc, Vanier College, Montreal, QC, Canada
15. Avant-Garde
Christos Hadjiyiannis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
16. Female Genius
Elisabetta Convento, Boston University, USA
17. Intertextuality
Gertrude Postl, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY, USA
18. Intimate Revolt
Gertrude Postl, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY, USA
19. Spirituality
Alison Jasper, University of Stirling, UK
20. Subject-in-process/on trial
Esther Hutfless and Elisabeth Schäfer, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
21. The Semiotic/The Symbolic
David Koloszyc, Vanier College, Montreal, QC, Canada
Index