Testimony : crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history

In This Unique Collection, Yale Literary Critic Shoshana Felman And Psychoanalyst Dori Laub Examine The Nature And Function Of Memory And The Act Of Witnessing, Both In Their General Relation To The Acts Of Writing And Reading, And In Their Particular Relation To The Holocaust. Moving From The Literary To The Visual, From The Artistic To The Autobiographical, And From The Psychoanalytic To The Historical, The Book Defines For The First Time The Trauma Of The Holocaust As A Radical Crisis Of Witnessing The Unprecedented Historical Occurrence Of ... An Event Eliminating Its Own Witness. Through The Alternation Of A Literary And Clinical Perspective, The Authors Focus On The Henceforth Modified Relation Between Knowledge And Event, Literature And Evidence, Speech And Survival, Witnessing And Ethics. -- Description From Http://search.barnesandnoble.com (nov. 29, 2011). Education And Crisis, Or The Vicissitudes Of Teaching / Shoshana Felman -- Bearing Witness, Or The Vicissitudes Of Listening / Dori Laub -- An Event Without A Witness: Truth, Testimony And Survival / Dori Laub -- Camus' The Plague, Or A Monument To Witnessing / Shoshana Felman -- After The Apocalypse: Paul De Man And The Fall To Silence / Shoshana Felman -- Camus' The Fall, Or The Betrayal Of The Witness / Shoshana Felman -- The Return Of The Voice: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Shoshana Felman. Shoshana Felman And Dori Laub. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 20110224120524663......Page 1 20110224120828911......Page 31 20110224121149426......Page 55 20110224121452949......Page 84 20110224121818590......Page 110 20110224121955990......Page 139