The hand at work : the poetics of poiesis in the Russian avant-garde / Susanne Strätling, translated by Alexandra Berlina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strätling, Susanne, author.

Contributor:

Berlina, Alexandra, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gesture in literature.

Hand in literature.

Experimental poetry, Russian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2021]

Summary:

Focusing on the gestures of giving, touching, showing and handcrafting, this study examines key scenes of tactile interaction between subject and artifact. The readings of this book call for a revision of an optically obscured aesthetics and poetics to include haptic experience as an often overlooked but pivotal part of the making as well as the perception of literature and the arts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

I. Speaking. From Hand to Mouth

II. Writing. Letters at Play

III. Pointing. Theater between Performance and Perception

IV. Working. The Word as a Tool

V. Acting. Poetics of Operativity

VI. Giving. Poetics of Life

VII. Touching. Tactile Text Experiments

VIII. Toward a Philology of the Hand

Bibliography

Captions

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Strätling, Susanne The Hand at Work

ISBN:

1-64469-709-2

1-64469-708-4

OCLC:

1263250430