Tactile Poetics
Subtitle: Touch and Contemporary Writing
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780748685318
Subjects: English poetry, history and criticism
Description: 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.