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The politics of touch

Kurtz, Teresa
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Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Literature
 Touch in literature
 Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation
 Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
 Metamorphosis
 Evelina
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2020-08
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Through this thesis, I aim to deconstruct and reconstruct what it means to reach out and touch another by analyzing the role of physical touch in literature with a New Historicist approach. In other words, I am reading into the signification of touch within different literary texts while taking into account the text's geographical, historical, and sociological conditions. In a different time, place, and sociocultural climate, the same signifier--such as touch--will necessarily have different significations. Therefore, touch in all of its forms must be read within its individual literary context.
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