“... in his fiction and in his critical essays. Books about Proust are also coloured by this climate. Julia Kristeva, for instance, starts out by remarking on the madeleine, ‘which gives a taste of Proust even to those who have never read him’. Monty Python’s Summarise-Proust Contest is a contribution to this state of affairs, and not just a mockery of ...”

“... Homi Bhabha, Claude Lefort, Slavoj Žižek, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Lacan, Tzvetan Todorov, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler: an extraordinary range of theorists is included. Derrida, Bourdieu, Habermas, De Certeau and Althusser are not forgotten, and even Freud (though not Marx) makes it into the bibliography. We hear about Foucault on ...”

“... Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations, the break with Robbe-Grillet and the New Novel, the arrival of Julia Kristeva in Paris (from Bulgaria), and finally the publication of Sollers’s ‘nouveau nouveau roman’, Drame, which announced a whole new kind of ‘textual’ literature. If we date the effective end of this avant garde with the de-Maoification of ...”

“... Sappho gets in, but not Patience Strong; ‘John’ Radclyffe Hall, but not Jan Morris; Julia Kristeva, but not Elizabeth David (nor Jane Grigson, nor even Mrs Beeton – writing about cooking does not rate high). Betty Friedan gets in, but not Mary Douglas; Hannah Arendt, but not Barbara Wootton. In general, journalists get a raw deal. There ...”

“... witness Roman Jakobson on Baudelaire, Roland Barthes on Balzac, Fredric Jameson on Conrad, Julia Kristeva on Mallarmé, Edward Said on Jane Austen, Paul de Man on Proust, Gilles Deleuze on Kafka, Gérard Genette on Flaubert, Hélène Cixous on Joyce, Harold Bloom on Wallace Stevens, J. Hillis Miller on Henry James. Some theorists are slapdash ...”

“... at appropriation’. In 1967 Sollers had secretly married the Bulgarian literary theorist Julia Kristeva, whose career he was also keen to promote over Derrida’s. Rebuffed in their efforts to capture the cultural apparatus of the PCF, in the early 1970s Sollers and Kristeva converted to Maoism. This led to a ...”

“... It seems to express a greater plasticity of outlook, and, being able to regard Julia Kristeva and Saul Kripke as equally relevant to its intellectual enterprise, it draws attention from every corner of the academic world. Let us, however, ignore the higher reaches of semiotic speculation, and attend for a moment to that mundane ...”

“... forget’.‘An exquisite or troubling dehumanisation, like vibrations of the cosmos’: this is Julia Kristeva on Colette. ‘Tendrils of the vine,’ she elaborates, after a piece Colette wrote in 1905, when she was still with Willy. ‘A genre she has made her own.’ ‘The Tendrils of the Vine’ is an Oscar Wilde-ish just-so story about how the ...”

“... of the things people get up to in their youth and poverty mingles with a rising stench of what Julia Kristeva calls ‘the abject’, a desperate disgust with the earthbound fate of flesh. And they are everywhere too in her later novels, in which Spark, as befits her current social position, turns her attention to people of wealth and cosmopolitan ...”

“... is the notion of undecidability, which the Tel Quel group culls from Gödel’s proof. Unlike Julia Kristeva, though, Derrida at least admits that there is only some analogy – a rather forced one – between the undecidability of propositions in a formalised axiomatic system and the indefiniteness of rhetorical ambiguities and textual allusions in ...”

“... the business of Freddy, the absconded father (‘I wanted you but you didn’t want me’), and Julia, the dead mother (‘you had me but I never had you’). Janov also seems to have come up with a cure for the cure (screaming as the remedy for meditation), which must have posed a serious challenge. The most pressing issue was surely that Lennon had been ...”

“... that characterised Parisian structuralist thought in the Sixties and early Seventies. Thus Julia Kristeva (in ‘The Speaking Subject’) seems almost to be reviving old memories as she works out a radical feminist topology of language and desire based on the Lacanian re-writing of Freud in terms derived from structural linguistics. (Lacan himself ...”

“... sometimes too forcedly relates his poetry to the writings of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. In the longer term, after these revelations have been absorbed, a greater sense of the coherence of Redgrove’s work will emerge. I hope there will also be more attention paid to the connections between his work and that of Shuttle. Their ...”

“... of the sign. This particular melange of ideas and influences (Brecht, Barthes, Lacan, Althusser, Julia Kristeva) has enjoyed a lasting currency among the jargonauts of Screen, though its effects on literary theory were more short-lived. Wollen succeeds in reviving its heady radical flavour by picking up ideas where he needs them, and not attempting any ...”

“... the restless innards of the body or to the ructions of the unconscious mind.In a recent interview, Julia Kristeva noted that the telephone analysis sessions enforced by the pandemic, which hold the voice at a new distance, have been helping reticent patients speak of deep forms of memory and distress – the early death of a mother from cancer; abuse or ...”