{"product_id":"touching-literature-or-the-experience-of-the-limit-9781501716300","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irving Goh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501716300","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47663560818825,"sku":"9781501716300","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_fe1dcc96-c07d-499b-89fa-c18ad0526d00.jpg?v=1784608556","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/touching-literature-or-the-experience-of-the-limit-9781501716300","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}