I was thinking about how to demonstrate the way the “semiotic” processes are at work in some kind of poetry in ways that are more accessible to Anglo/American lit students than the Mallarme example Kristeva gives us. So here goes:

The end of Joyce’s Ulysses, narrated by Molly Bloom. The intense erotic energy of the “yesses” speak to the untrammeled pre-Oedipal polymorphous flows of desire that JK describes:

Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy …the last lines..

June 16th 2012 Bloomsday : the last lines of Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy to the backdrop of a Tribute Painting I painted this week…

And here’s Gertrude Stein, the great poet of the “semiotic” in JKs sense, giving an undulating “portrait” of Pablo Picasso:

Gertrude Stein reads If I Had Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso

Gertrude Stein reads her poem If I Had Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso.