{"product_id":"touching-literature-or-the-experience-irving-goh-9781501787997","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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501787993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501787997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Irving Goh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874507108607,"sku":"9781501787997","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/touching-literature-or-the-experience-irving-goh-9781501787997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}