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Shoshana Felman,Dori Laub
Testimony draws on survivors of the Holocaust’s accounts to present the first theory of testimony: a radically new conception of the relationship between art and culture and the witnessing of…
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Shoshana Felman
Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics. This work gathers some of the influential essays from Felman’s oeuvre. It also includes short responses to Felman’s work…
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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…
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What does a woman want? is a male question, originally posed by Freud. This book explores whether this question can engender a woman’s voice as its speaking subject. It examines…
Instead, the contributors assert that the subjects traverse each other’s boundaries and that their relationship is one of give and take.
This book offers an account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, and…
Felman analyzes Lacan’s investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. By focusing on Lacan’s singular way of making Freud’s thought new again, Felman…
This is the author’s most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Barbara Johnson
This collection presents the hitherto unpublished last work by deceased literary scholar Barbara Johnson, A Life with Mary Shelley, alongside Johnson’s earlier landmark essays on Shelley and incisive new commentary…
Imagining an encounter between Moliere’s Don Juan and Austin, this bold yet subtle meditation contemplates the seductive promises of speech and of love, in a telling exchange among philosophy, linguistics…
