Tactile Poetics: Touch and Contemporary Writing

ISBN-13: 9780748685318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 224 str.

Sarah Jackson

Opis

A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theory
The intimate links between the page and the skin have been explored by writers for centuries. Yet despite the current interest in the surface of the body, the relationship between touching and writing remains neglected. Drawing on new debates in deconstruction and psychoanalysis, this book provides an original and timely intervention in the field. Exploring insights from Jacques Derrida and Helene Cixous, and through close readings of work by writers such as Anne Carson, Siri Hustvedt and Michael Ondaatje, Tactile Poetics investigates the law of tact that always interrupts contact, and examines the different ways that literary texts work to 'touch' their readers.
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Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Each Word of Skin; 1. Writing Bodies: Hustvedt’s Textual Skin; 2. Expeausition: Ondaatje’s Skin-Effects; 3. The Law of Tact: Freud and H.D.; 4.So Close: Writing that Touches; 5. Dis-tanz: 29 Tangos; 6. Hand Delivered: From A to X; 7. Digital Technologies and Prosthetic Possibilities; 8. Phantom Limbs: Bowen’s ‘Hand in Glove’; Bibliography