Home Bodies : Tactile Experience in Domestic Space /

Home Bodies : Tactile Experience in Domestic Space /

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"By demonstrating crucial links between domestic experience and tactile perception, Home Bodies investigates questions of identity, space, and the body. Krasner analyzes representations of tactile experience from a range of canonical literary works and authors, including the Bible, Sophocles, M...

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Main Author: Krasner, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2010]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Touch in literature.
Touch.
Human body in literature.
Home > Psychological aspects.
Home in literature.
Domestic space in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
touch.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Toucher dans la litterature.
Toucher.
Foyer dans la litterature.
Foyer > Aspect psychologique.
Espace domestique dans la litterature.
Touch
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Broken homes : intimacy, tactility, and the dissolution of domestic space. Tangible grief ; Mess and memory ; The hoarder's house
  • Part two. Homes without walls : intercorporeal domestic space. Homeless companions ; The healing touch
  • Part three. Home at the body's edge : domesticity as somatosensory boundary definition. The language of pressure ; The leper's studio
  • Postscript. Living and dying at home.

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