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