Stony Brook University
Melville Library

The Kristeva Reader. Edited and introduced by Toril Moi. New York, Columbia University Press, 1986. 327 p. 

• Contents
  • Introduction: 1-22
  • "The System and the speaking subject": 24-33
  • First published in Times Literary Supplement, 1973. (See journal articles)
    
  • "Word, dialogue and novel": 34-61. Tr. by Alice Jardine, Thomas Gora and Leon S. Roudiez.
  • First published as "Bakhtine, le mot, le dialogue et le roman," Critique, XXIII, 239, April 1967, pp. 438-65.
  • Reprinted in Sémeiotikè (1969)
    
  • Translated into English in Desire in Language (1980) 
    
  • "From symbol to sign": 62-73. Tr. by Seán Hand. 
  • First published in Tel Quel (1968) 
    
  • Reprinted in Le Texte du roman. Approche sémiologique d'une structure discursive transformationnelle (1970)
    
  • "Semiotics: a critical science and/or a critique of science": 73-88. Tr. by Seán Hand.
  • First published in Théorie d'ensemble, pp. 80-93. Paris, Seuil, 1968. 414 p.
    
  • Reprinted in La Nouvelle critique, 16, September 1968, pp. 15-20
    
  • Reprinted in Semeiotikè (1969), pp. 27-42 as "La Sèméiotikè: science critique et/ou critique de la science.".
  • "Revolution in poetic language": 89-136. Tr. by Margaret Waller. 
  • First published as chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 in La Révolution du langage poétique (1974)
    
  • "About Chinese women": 138-159. Tr. by Seán Hand.
    
  • First published as chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Des Chinoises (1974)
  • "Stabat Mater": 160-186. Tr. by Leon S. Roudiez
  • First published as "Héréthique de l'amour" in Tel Quel, vol. 74 (1977).
    
  • Reprinted in Histoires d'amour (1983)
  • Translated by Arthur Goldhammer (slighted revised version) in Poetics Today (1985) 
    
  • "Women's time": 187-213. Tr. by Alice Jardine and Harry Blake
  • First published as "Le Temps des femmes", Trente Quatre/Quarante Quatre. Cahiers de recherche des sciences des textes et documents, 5, Winter 1979, pp.5-19.
    
  • "The True-real": 214-37. Tr. by Seán Hand.
    
  • First published as "Le Vréel in Folle vérité : vérité et vraisemblance du texte psychotique (11-35)
    
  • "Freud and love: treatment and its discontents": 238-71. Tr. by Leon S. Roudiez.
  • First published as "L'abjet d'amour" (Tel Quel, vol. 91, printemps 1982, pp. 17-33.
  • Published as "Freud, l'amour : le malaise dans la cure" in Histoires d'amour (27-58) 
    
  • "Why the United States": 272-91. Tr. by Seán Hand
    
  • First published as "Pourquoi les Etats-Unis", Tel quel, 71-73, Automne 1977, pp. 3-20.
  • "A New type of intellectual: the dissident": 292-300. Tr. by Seán Hand
    
  • First published as "un nouveau type d'intellectuel : le dissident",  Tel quel, 74, hiver 1977, pp. 3-8.
  • "Psychoanalysis and the polis": 301-20. Tr. by Margaret Waller
  • First published in Critical Inquiry, 9, 1, September 1982, pp. 77-92.