Word Outward
Subtitle: Medieval Perspectives on the Entry into Language (Studies in Medieval History and Culture, Vol 4)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 14, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780415936804
First sentence: Broadly speaking, the work of Julia Kristeva accounts for the triple relation among material language, physical body, and a sense of selfhood Her central notion is that the body itself, an envelope of diverse and fluctuating drive-energy, provides a fundamental distinctiveness which underlies both a subjective sense of self and signifying systems based on difference