The Claims of Literature : : A Shoshana Felman Reader / / ed. by Emily Sun, Ulrich Baer, Eyal Peretz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• HerausgeberIn: Baer, Ulrich,; Peretz, Eyal,; Sun, Emily,
• MitwirkendeR: Butler, Judith,; Caruth, Cathy,; Cavell, Stanley,; Felman, Shoshana,; Kristeva, Julia,; Menninghaus, Winfried,; Mitchell, Juliet,; Sarat, Austin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (538 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Editors’ Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part 1 Writing and Madness --; 1 Writing and Madness From ‘‘Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation)’’ --; 2 Foucault/Derrida: The Madness of the Thinking/Speaking Subject --; 3 ‘‘You were right to leave, Arthur Rimbaud’’: Poetry and Modernity --; Part 2 The Literary Speech Act --; 4. From The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages --; Foreword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body --; Afterword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body --; Part 3. reading and sexual difference --; 5. Textuality and the Riddle of Bisexuality: Balzac, ‘‘The Girl with the Golden Eyes’’ --; 6. From ‘‘Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from Which Psychoanalysis Proceeds’’ --; Response: On Asking Again: What Does a Woman Want? --; Part 4 Psychoanalysis and the Question of Literature --; 7 To Open the Question --; 8 From ‘‘Beyond Oedipus: The Specimen Text of Psychoanalysis’’ --; 9 Flaubert’s Signature: The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitable --; Response: Hölderlin’s Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male Pindaric Seer --; Part 5 Trauma and Testimony --; 10 From ‘‘The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’’ --; Response: For Shoshana Felman: Truth and Art --; 11 From ‘‘The Storyteller’s Silence: Walter Benjamin’s Dilemma of Justice’’ --; Part 6 Beyond the Law --; 12 A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law --; Response: On ‘‘Missed Encounter(s)’’: Law’s Relationship to Violence, Death, and Disaster --; Response: Trauma, Justice, and the Political Unconscious: Arendt and Felman’s Journey to Jerusalem --; Part 7 Felman as Teacher --; 13 Plato’s Phaedo --; 14 Between Spinoza and Lacan and Us --; Photo Gallery --; Notes on Contributors --; Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823292790; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823292790
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Emily Sun, Ulrich Baer, Eyal Peretz.

Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and gender studies, trauma studies, and critical legal studies. Shoshana Felman has not only influenced these fields: her work has opened channels of communication between them. In all of her work Felman charts a way for literary critics to address the ways in which texts have real effects in the world and how our quest for meaning is transformed in the encounter with the texts that hold such a promise. The present collection gathers the most exemplary and influential essays from Felman’s oeuvre, including articles previously untranslated into English. The Claims of Literature also includes responses to Felman’s work by leading contemporary theorists, including Stanley Cavell, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Cathy Caruth, Juliet Mitchell, Winfried Menninghaus, and Austin Sarat. It concludes with a section on Felman as a teacher, giving transcripts of two of her classes, one at Yale in September 2001, the other at Emory in December 2004.