Touching Spaces in Textures : Affective Humor and Dialogicity in Contemporary Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popal, Mariam.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Touch has many layers of meaning, especially so in the affectivity unleashed by humor, where touching spaces often emerge in deconstructive ways that affect the senses, alter sense-making, and generate productive forms of non-knowledge ( NichtWissen ) and power-lessness ( OhnMacht ).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I Theoretical and Conceptual Frames On Affective Humor and Touching Spaces

Beginnings with Laughter or Humor's Zany Comedy

The ›Affective Turn‹, Literature, and Humor

Affectivity, Non-Knowledge & Power-lessness

The Fissured Meaning(fulness) of Touch

Section II - Readings

Reading White Teeth - White Teeth - A Contextualization

Reading Je suis un écrivain japonais - Je suis un écrivain japonais - A Contextualization

Conclusions

Bibliography

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-8394-7261-X

9783839472613

OCLC:

1564420069