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Writing and Madness: (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis)
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Writing and Madness: (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis) Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Shoshana Felman; Martha Noel Evans (Translator)


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Writing and Madness is Shoshana Felman's most influential work of literary theory and criticism. Exploring the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis through brilliant studies of Balzac, Nerval, Flaubert, and James, as well as Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida, this book seeks the specificity of literature in its relation to what culture excludes under the label "madness." Why and how do literary writers reclaim the discourse of the madman, and how does this reclaiming reveal something essential about the relation between literature and power, as well as between literature and knowledge?
Every literary text continues to communicate with madness--with what has been excluded, decreed abnormal, unacceptable, or senseless--by dramatizing a dynamically revitalized relation between sense and nonsense, reason and unreason, the readable and the unreadable. This revelation of the irreducibility of the relation between the readable and the unreadable constitutes what the author calls la chose litteraire--the literary thing.

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  • Title Writing and Madness: (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis)
  • Author Shoshana Felman; Martha Noel Evans (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press
  • Date 2003-03-03
  • ISBN 9780804744485 / 0804744483
  • Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 6.04 x 0.95 in (24.03 x 15.34 x 2.41 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002153635
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

About the author

Shoshana Felman is Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her books include Literature and Psychoanalysis, Testimony, and (most recently) The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century. Her The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages, is being reissued in a new edition by Stanford University Press, with a Foreword by Stanley Cavell and an Afterword by Judith Butle
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