The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader

by Eyal Peretz and Ulrich Baer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823227138
• ISBN13: 9780823227136
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"