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Writing and Madness - (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis) (Paperback): Shoshana Felman

Writing and Madness - (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis) (Paperback)

Shoshana Felman; Translated by Martha Noel Evans

Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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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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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Release date: February 2003
First published: February 2003
Authors: Shoshana Felman
Translators: Martha Noel Evans
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-4449-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
Books > Philosophy > General
LSN: 0-8047-4449-1
Barcode: 9780804744492

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