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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810050303321

Autore

Strätling Susanne

Titolo

The hand at work : the poetics of poiesis in the Russian avant-garde / / Susanne Strätling, translated by Alexandra Berlina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-64469-709-2

1-64469-708-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 pages)

Disciplina

809.93353

Soggetti

Gesture in literature

Hand in literature

Experimental poetry, Russian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Speaking. From Hand to Mouth -- II. Writing. Letters at Play -- III. Pointing. Theater between Performance and Perception -- IV. Working. The Word as a Tool -- V. Acting. Poetics of Operativity -- VI. Giving. Poetics of Life -- VII. Touching. Tactile Text Experiments -- VIII. Toward a Philology of the Hand -- Bibliography -- Captions -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the gestures of giving, touching, showing and handcrafting, this study examines key scenes of tactile interaction between subject and artifact. The readings of this book call for a revision of an optically obscured aesthetics and poetics to include haptic experience as an often overlooked but pivotal part of the making as well as the perception of literature and the arts.