The politics of touch

Kurtz, Teresa

dc.contributor.author	Kurtz, Teresa
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-17T18:04:30Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-17T18:04:30Z
dc.date.issued	2020-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1490
dc.description.abstract	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.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Literature	en_US
dc.subject	Touch in literature	en_US
dc.subject	Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation	en_US
dc.subject	Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation	en_US
dc.subject	Metamorphosis	en_US
dc.subject	Evelina	en_US
dc.title	The politics of touch	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.description.version	NA	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2020-10-17T18:04:30Z
dc.description.institution	SUNY College at New Paltz	en_US
dc.description.department	English	en_US
dc.description.degreelevel	MA	en_US
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