The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader

Published by Fordham University Press 2007

The Claims of Literature

A Shoshana Felman Reader

Edited by: Emily Sun , Eyal Peretz and Ulrich Baer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292790

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editors’ Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Writing and Madness
1 Writing and Madness From ‘‘Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation)’’ Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 Foucault/Derrida: The Madness of the Thinking/Speaking Subject Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3 ‘‘You were right to leave, Arthur Rimbaud’’: Poetry and Modernity Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Foreword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body Stanley Cavell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Afterword to The Scandal of the Speaking Body Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Part 3. reading and sexual difference
5. Textuality and the Riddle of Bisexuality: Balzac, ‘‘The Girl with the Golden Eyes’’ Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
6. From ‘‘Competing Pregnancies: The Dream from Which Psychoanalysis Proceeds’’ Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Response: On Asking Again: What Does a Woman Want? Juliet Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Part 4 Psychoanalysis and the Question of Literature
7 To Open the Question Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
8 From ‘‘Beyond Oedipus: The Specimen Text of Psychoanalysis’’ Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
9 Flaubert’s Signature: The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitable Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Response: Hölderlin’s Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male Pindaric Seer Winfried Menninghaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Part 5 Trauma and Testimony
10 From ‘‘The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah’’ Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Response: For Shoshana Felman: Truth and Art Julia Kristeva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
11 From ‘‘The Storyteller’s Silence: Walter Benjamin’s Dilemma of Justice’’ Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
Part 6 Beyond the Law
12 A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law Shoshana Felman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Response: On ‘‘Missed Encounter(s)’’: Law’s Relationship to Violence, Death, and Disaster Austin Sarat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Response: Trauma, Justice, and the Political Unconscious: Arendt and Felman’s Journey to Jerusalem Cathy Caruth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Part 7 Felman as Teacher
13 Plato’s Phaedo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
14 Between Spinoza and Lacan and Us Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	448
Photo Gallery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 538

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823292790