-- "Voice Literary Supplement" "[Kristeva's] graceful and lucid history of language ranges over vast intellectual territory--Egyptian hieroglyphs to psychoanalytic discourse, Crates of Mallos to Benveniste to LA(c)vi-Strauss and Lacan. Guaranteed jargon-free." -- "Voice Literary Supplement" "[Kristeva's] graceful and lucid history of language ranges over vast intellectual territory--Egyptian hieroglyphs to psychoanalytic discourse, Crates of Mallos to Benveniste to Lvi-Strauss and Lacan. Guaranteed jargon-free." -- "Voice Literary Supplement" "ÝKristeva's¨ graceful and lucid history of language ranges over vast intellectual territory--Egyptian hieroglyphs to psychoanalytic discourse, Crates of Mallos to Benveniste to Lvi-Strauss and Lacan. Guaranteed jargon-free." -- "Voice Literary Supplement" Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”