{"product_id":"touching-literature-or-the-experience-of-the-limit","title":"Touching Literature, or the Experience of the Limit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTouching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial differences, and the material limits of the artwork itself.\u003c\/b\u003e Departing from philosophies of touch – proposed by such thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, Luce Irigaray, and Hélène Cixous – that call for respecting personal limits, Irving Goh finds that literary works can be more audacious with touch, both testing and transgressing those limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough readings of various texts – Marcel Proust's\u003ci\u003e In Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e, three novels by Clarice Lispector (\u003ci\u003ePassion According to G. H.\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eÁgua Viva\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e A Breath of Life\u003c\/i\u003e), and Anthony Doerr's \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Shakespeare's sonnets, the poems of E. E. Cummings, and Ovid's Pygmalion story – Goh contends that being attuned to literary articulations of touch, as well as being sensitive to the experience of being touched by a text, illuminate the urgency of existence not only in the texts in question but also for us readers at a time when personal interactions are increasingly distant and mediated by screens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57257049850200,"sku":"9781501716300","price":128.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501716300.jpg?v=1778794225","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/touching-literature-or-the-experience-of-the-limit","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}