Home Bodies : Tactile Experience in Domestic Space /

"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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Autore principale: Krasner, James (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2010]
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
  • 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.