Keeping it Intimate: A Meditation on the Power of Horror

The paper is a reading of Julia Kristeva, The Severed Head. It first interprets a dual historical element in Kristeva's text on "capital visions," her selection of exemplars of the artistic representation of severed heads. On the one hand, there are the aesthetic trajectories themsel...

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Main Author: Sara Beardsworth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2013-05-01
Series:Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
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Online Access:http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/579