- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Online publication date:
- September 2017
- Print publication year:
- 2015
- Online ISBN:
- 9780748685325
- Subjects:
- Literature, Literary Texts, Literary Theory
The 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 Hélèn 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.
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