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The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader
Contributor(s): Sun, Emily (Editor), Peretz, Eyal (Editor), Baer, Ulrich (Editor)

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 ISBN: 082322712X     ISBN-13: 9780823227129
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Published: July 2007
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Annotation: 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 Felmans oeuvre, including articles previously untranslated into English. The Claims of Literature also includes short responses to Felmans work by leading contemporary theorists, including Stanley Cavell, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Cathy Caruth, Claude Lanzmann, 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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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
Dewey: 809
LCCN: 2007018775
Physical Information: (1.85 lbs) 538 pages
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Peretz, Eyal: -

EYAL PERETZ is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University.
He is the author of Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick.'

Sun, Emily: - Emily Sun is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. She is editor, with Ulrich Baer and Eyal Peretz, of The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader (Fordham, 2007).Baer, Ulrich: - Ulrich Baer is Vice Provost for Arts, Humanities and Diversity and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. He is editor and translator of Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters of Life, editor of 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11, and author of several books on poetry and photography. His most recent book is Beggar's Chicken: Stories from Shanghai.
 
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