Literature and the Senses
Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the...
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| description | Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the ‘Great Stink’ that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an aubergine registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of the senses. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1213152025-03-20T09:40:49Z Literature and the Senses Kern-Stähler, Annette Robertson, Elizabeth literary sensory studies, perception, sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, multisensoriality, disability, Maurice Merleau-Ponty Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the ‘Great Stink’ that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an aubergine registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of the senses. 2023-11-16T10:10:41Z 2023-11-16T10:10:41Z 2023-09-07T11:55:15Z 2023 book OCN: 1390562463 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76161 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121315 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76161/1/9780192843777.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76161/1/9780192843777.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76161/1/9780192843777.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780192843777.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780192843777.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung University of Bern 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 3ef8d6fa-9f6b-4e9f-ad64-3b81b1bc829c Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) 540 Oxford open access |
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| topic | literary sensory studies, perception, sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, multisensoriality, disability, Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
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