| Writing and Madness: (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis) Contributor(s): Felman, Shoshana (Author), Evans, Martha Noel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804744483 ISBN-13: 9780804744485 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: 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 litte raire-- the literary thing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2002153635 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.04" W x 9.46" (1.14 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the author's most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. |