Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

-Kristeva's depiction of contrariety and anomaly at the heart of postmodernist theory is ingenious, provocative, and challenging. -Contemporary Literature -Kristeva changes the place of things: she always destroys the latest preconception, the one we thought we could be comforted by, the one of which we could be proud; what she displaces in the illusion that it has all been said already, that is, she removes the pressure of the signified--in a word, stupidity; what she subverts is authority--that of monological science, of filiation. -Roland Barthes