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Tactile Poetics - Touch and Contemporary Writing (Hardcover)
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Tactile Poetics - Touch and Contemporary Writing (Hardcover)
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It is the first sustained study to explore the relationship between
touching and writing in contemporary literature. For centuries,
writers have explored the intimate links between the page and the
skin, between the hand and writing, and between language and the
caress. It is only in recent decades, however, that touch has
become the subject of scholarship. And yet despite the current
surge of interest in the surface of our bodies, the precise
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,
investigating the different ways that literary texts make contact
with or 'touch' their readers. Examining touch in relation to a
range of contemporary works, the book poses four main questions: In
what ways is a text like a skin? How do literary texts play out
both the limits and possibilities of contact? What is the role of
the hand in writing? And how do advancements in digital and haptic
technologies change the way we think about writing and touching?
Proposes a new theory of 'tactile poetics' to conceptualise the
relationship between touching and writing; 8 chapters exploring
literary touch in the work of often neglected contemporary thinkers
and writers; introduces the work of psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu to
new audiences through its theorisation of the 'textual skin'; the
first full length monograph examining literature and touch since
the translation into English of seminal works on touch by thinkers
of deconstruction such as Jacques Derrida and Jean Luc Nancy.
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