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Tactile poetics : touch and contemporary writing / Sarah Jackson.
LIBRA PN771 .J33 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Sarah, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Touch in literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Human body in literature.
- Psychology and literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- This text conceptualizes the relationship between touching and writing through a theory of 'tactile poetics'; it offers an analysis of a range of literary genres; examines writings on touch by Anzieu, Cixous, Derrida, Freud and Nancy; and explores the intersections between creative and critical thinking and writing.
- Contents:
- 1 Writing Bodies: Hustvedt's Textual Skin 14
- 2 Expeausition: Ondaatje's Skin-Effects 32
- 3 The Law of Tact: Freud and H.D. 51
- 4 So Close: Writing that Touches 64
- 5 Dis-tanz: 29 Tangos 80
- 6 Hand Delivered: From A to X 98
- 7 Digital Technologies and Prosthetic Possibilities 120
- 8 Phantom Limbs: Bowen's 'Hand in Glove' 140.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ([pages 150]-160) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0748685316
- 9780748685318
- OCLC:
- 910983471
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