A psychoanalyst, semiotician, literary critic, and novelist, Bulgarian-born Julia Kristeva is one of the more dynamic and original intellectual figures of the latter half of the twentieth century. Professor of linguistics at the Université de...

Kristeva, Julia(1941–) Julia Kristeva was born on June 24, 1941, in Sliven, Bulgaria. She was educated by French nuns, studied literature, and worked as a journalist before going to Paris in 1966 to do graduate work with Lucien Goldmann and...

Julia Kristeva (Bulgarian: Юлия Кръстева) (born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. Kristeva has become...

Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable. By ANNE-MARIE SMITH. London and Stirling, Virginia: Pluto Press. 1998. vii + 110 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 10.99 [pounds sterling]). Over the past decade Kristeva has had her fair share of detractors: Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz,...

JULIA KRISTEVA. Colette. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. New York: Columbia UP, 2004. 427 pp. IN THIS, THE THIRD AND FINAL VOLUME in her series on female genius, Julia Kristeva elegantly conveys her convictions regarding the relationship of language and experience to the...