Julia Kristeva

horror films. More recently film critics have turned to the work of Julia Kristeva. Barbara Creed has adapted Kristeva’s work on literature to study visual horror which she talks about in her book The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Here there is a shift from the woman as a victim to the notion of motherhood as “abject” in horror films. In contradiction to what has been discussed so far, Kristeva locates the origin of horror not in the…

cannot love (4). Supposedly, the broken, strange, and intersexual “I” cannot bear the dark parts of her psyche, because the “I” does not fit in taxonomic classifications and categories. In this case, the abjection of self is certain. Julia Kristeva confirms that “It is thus not lack of cleanliness or health that causes abjection but what disturbs identity, system, and order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules? The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite” (4). …

Based in a world of anthropomorphic animals, Zootopia (2016) revisits the buddy-cop animation genre to present a parable on real world issues of stereotyping, fear-mongering, prejudice and sexism. Zootopia depicts the perpetuation of race and gender inequality in the United States, and by denouncing it as being Western propaganda, the Chinese government discredits the global need for social upliftment of minorities. Zootopia simplifies the understanding of real world issues of stereotyping and…

Exploring the way for which the stories of the Arabian Nights affect the human being’s thoughts has become progressively more popular among writers. To question the book and investigate the direction in which its formulaic stories have power over the human being’s imagination have become increasingly widespread among authors. It seems to be inevitable to analyze why the Arabian Nights has become vital; that is the purpose of this work. There exist several ways of investigating the Nights…

Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes demonstrate themselves to be divergent thinkers and writers with the ideas they present in their lectures and writings. Their compelling critiques inspired the ideas of esteemed writers such as Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, along with students all over the world. Foucault and Barthes also expand upon and modify the ideas of others and were, themselves, influenced by revolutionary theorists. Some notable examples of this is how Karl Marx affected the writing…

The speaker expresses faith in the poet’s ability to reconstruct a world free of the fall, an edenic, mythic world that flourished “before the serpent perverted language when persuading Eve and before the destruction of Bable scattered language into a multiplicity of tongues, mutually foreign” (Edwards 137). The image of the swift in this poem provides a symbol of unity of being which reminds us of the initial unity we have lost, a unity which could possibly be regained through art. Jennings…

In Western tradition, Socrates frequently employed a method of dialogue in argumentation, which allowed dramatic clash of juxtaposed points of view punctuated by the final word of a single person (interlocutor); and that mode of interaction came to acquire after him the name "Socratic dialogue". His disciple Plato further developed this many-voiced mode in writing, also known as Platonic dialogue; the master piece of which we have in the Republic, manifesting outstanding success of the mode. The…

Interrogating Judith Butler’s view on gender oppositions, Vicki Kirby asserts that she is ‘clearly committed to a notion that language possesses a constitutive and regulatory force which causally implicates sex/gender and sexuality’ . This essay will critically dissect poststructuralist theories to expose phallogocentricism and instability within the gender binary. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle assert that ‘the notion of essentialism’ in gender ‘consists primarily in anatomical or…

Victorians are fascinated by the Science and the question of the woman. They come to the conclusion that woman are inferior to men. Critics constantly identify science as masculine, Victorian writers exclude woman from scientific discourses. Eventually after the publication of Charles Darwin’s Decent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in 1871, the relation of gender and science become more interesting for literary critics. Darwin has showed the biological different on gender. In this book,…

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was an eminent English Romantic Poet, hose Lyrical Ballad, as a result of joint efforts, co-authoring with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Contributed to launch the Romantic Age in English Literature. He is known as the poet of Nature, reflecting his inner feelings while appreciating the wonderings and beauty of it. (Norton, 543-45) The poem ‘We Are Seven’, as Wordsworth says, has been “written an Alfoxden in the spring of 1798. The little girl who is the heroine I met…