- Description
- 1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Tactile poetics (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Tactile poetics (Online)
- Touch and contemporary writing
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-160) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Each word of skin -- Writing bodies: Hustvedt's textual skin -- Expeausition: Ondaatje's skin-effects -- The law of tact: Freud and H.D. -- So Close: Writing that touches -- Dis-tanz: 29 Tangos -- Hand delivered From A to X -- Digital technologies and prosthetic possibilities -- Phantom Limbs: Bowen's 'Hand in Glove'.
- LCCN
- 2015374773
- OCLC
- ssj0001912599
- Author
Jackson, Sarah, 1977-
- Title
Tactile poetics [electronic resource] : touch and contemporary writing / Sarah Jackson.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-160) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Chronological Term
1900-1999