Touching Feeling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touching Feeling write by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. This book was released on 2003-01-17. Touching Feeling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVA collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity./div
Touching Feeling
Touching Feeling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touching Feeling write by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. This book was released on 2003-01-17. Touching Feeling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVA collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity./div
Touching Feeling
Touching Feeling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touching Feeling write by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. This book was released on 2003-01-17. Touching Feeling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion." In prose sometimes somber, often high-spirited, and always accessible and moving, Touching Feeling interrogates—through virtuoso readings of works by Henry James, J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, the psychologist Silvan Tomkins and others—emotion in many forms. What links the work of teaching to the experience of illness? How can shame become an engine for queer politics, performance, and pleasure? Is sexuality more like an affect or a drive? Is paranoia the only realistic epistemology for modern intellectuals? Ultimately, Sedgwick's unfashionable commitment to the truth of happiness propels a book as open-hearted as it is intellectually daring.
The Art of the Novel
The Art of the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of the Novel write by Henry James. This book was released on 2011-06-15. The Art of the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James’s fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing—character, plot, point of view, inspiration—and explains how he came to write novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The American. As Blackmur puts it, “criticism has never been more ambitious, nor more useful.” The latest edition of this influential work includes a foreword by bestselling author Colm Tóibín, whose critically acclaimed novel The Master is told from the point of view of Henry James. As a guide not only to James’s inspiration and execution, but also to his frustrations and triumphs, this volume will be valuable both to students of James’s fiction and to aspiring writers.
How to Feel
How to Feel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Feel write by Sushma Subramanian. This book was released on 2021-02-02. How to Feel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are out of touch. Many people fear that we are trapped inside our screens, becoming less in tune with our bodies and losing our connection to the physical world. But the sense of touch has been undervalued since long before the days of digital isolation. Because of deeply rooted beliefs that favor the cerebral over the corporeal, touch is maligned as dirty or sentimental, in contrast with supposedly more elevated modes of perceiving the world. How to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sense. Sushma Subramanian introduces readers to the scientists whose groundbreaking research is underscoring the role of touch in our lives. Through vivid individual stories—a man who lost his sense of touch in his late teens, a woman who experiences touch-emotion synesthesia, her own efforts to become less touch averse—Subramanian explains the science of the somatosensory system and our philosophical beliefs about it. She visits labs that are shaping the textures of objects we use every day, from cereal to synthetic fabrics. The book highlights the growing field of haptics, which is trying to incorporate tactile interactions into devices such as phones that touch us back and prosthetic limbs that can feel. How to Feel offers a new appreciation for a vital but misunderstood sense and how we can use it to live more fully.
