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Tactile Poetics : Touch and Contemporary Writing / Sarah Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (176 p.) : 4 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748685318
  • 9780748685325
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.04
LOC classification:
  • PN771 .J33 2015
  • PN771 .J33 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Index
Summary: A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theorySarah Jackson has received one of the AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker awards!Listen to a podcast by Sarah Jackson for BBC Radio 3The 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 Hélène 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.Key FeaturesConceptualises the relationship between touching and writing through a theory of 'tactile poetics'Offers in-depth analysis of a range of literary genres including short fiction, poetry, autobiography, correspondence and the novelExamines writings on touch by Anzieu, Cixous, Derrida, Freud and NancyExplores the intersections between creative and critical thinking and writing"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Index

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A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theorySarah Jackson has received one of the AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker awards!Listen to a podcast by Sarah Jackson for BBC Radio 3The 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 Hélène 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.Key FeaturesConceptualises the relationship between touching and writing through a theory of 'tactile poetics'Offers in-depth analysis of a range of literary genres including short fiction, poetry, autobiography, correspondence and the novelExamines writings on touch by Anzieu, Cixous, Derrida, Freud and NancyExplores the intersections between creative and critical thinking and writing"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)