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Author : Fusako Innami
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472054985
How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?
Author : Aaron Ritzenberg
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823245543
Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature—work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling—does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental language persisted in American literature, even as a culture of managed systems threatened to obscure the power of individual affect. The Sentimental Touch explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture. Analyzing novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Nathanael West, the book demonstrates that sentimental language changes but remains powerful, even in works by authors who self-consciously write against the sentimental tradition. Sentimental language has an afterlife, enduring in American literature long after authors and critics declared it dead, insisting that human feeling can resist a mechanizing culture and embodying, paradoxically, the way that literary conventions themselves become mechanical and systematic.
Author : Nina Cornyetz,Rebecca Copeland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000964660
This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased attention these writers have received following the release of their work in the English language. The contributions explore a wide range of theoretical approaches and psychoanalytic interpretations to "reading" a new generation of Japanese women writers’ relationships to identity, sex/gender, and desire. Through dealing with female spaces, maternal roles, gendered bodies, or resistant speech acts, the book uncovers the overarching theme of desire – desire for language, touch, and recognition. Focusing on authors who have previously been underrepresented in English-language scholarship, the book highlights the diverse nature and the important synergies of writing by women in the last few decades. Addressing experimental and nonconforming authors whose works challenge gender and culture expectation as well as Orientalist myths, this will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian literature, Japanese culture, and Asian studies.
Author : Roberta L. Klatzky,Brian MacWhinney,Marlene Behrmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136678448
The majority of research on human perception and action examines sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual representation, as are the positions and actions (potential or ongoing) of other acti
Author : Talla Parj
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781638605331
Interuniversalism is a science-based mystical practice based upon direct experience. It is the purpose and the ultimate goal of this practice to raise our collective consciousness to heal humanity at every level, answer basic questions about creation, and help humanity walk the path to inner completion. The Higher Consciousness is the intelligence running the universe. It is possible to receive visions, knowledge, and certain abilities through connecting with the Higher Consciousness. Connection with the Higher Consciousness through Interuniversalism is very practical. The first step taken in this practice is to manifest the ability to heal. The Higher Consciousness will help prevent, control, or completely cure the physical, mental, or psychological problems of the recipients. A Practical Guide to Interuniversalism is a translation of the original version of Interuniversalism/Erfan-Halgheh. This handbook is a guide for students of this unique practice. It is also a teaching guide for those who are already masters in this tradition. For the general public, this is a book of knowledge. However, to activate the links shared in this mystical practice registration in the course is required.
Author : Stephanie Downes,Sally Holloway,Sarah Randles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198802648
A book about the ways in which humans have been bound affectively to the material world in and over time; how they have made, commissioned, and used objects to facilitate their emotional lives; how they felt about their things; and the ways certain things from the past continue to make people feel today.
Author : David Parisi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452956190
A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch—offering an alternative way of mediating and experiencing reality. In Archaeologies of Touch, David Parisi offers the first full history of these increasingly vital technologies, showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past three hundred years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Through lively analyses of electrical machines, videogames, sex toys, sensory substitution systems, robotics, and human–computer interfaces, Parisi shows how the materiality of touch technologies has been shaped by attempts to transform humans into more efficient processors of information. With haptics becoming ever more central to emerging virtual-reality platforms (immersive bodysuits loaded with touch-stimulating actuators), wearable computers (haptic messaging systems like the Apple Watch’s Taptic Engine), and smartphones (vibrations that emulate the feel of buttons and onscreen objects), Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.
Author : Robert Kao,Dante Sarigumba,Kevin J. Michaluk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470617748
Take your smartphone by storm and learn how to maximize its performance RIM's next generation release of the BlackBerry Storm features an updated touch screen keyboard and WiFi. It's also noticeably thinner, lighter, and faster! With this updated release comes new—and more complex—features. This easy-to-understand guide provides you with valuable information to unlock the full potential for this powerful handheld. Focused on the new and exciting features of the BlackBerry Storm, this book shows you how to use the touch screen, enter and maintain your contacts, manage your appointments and meetings, create and manage your To-Do lists, and much, much more. Introduces the new WiFi capabilities of the BlackBerry Storm Shows you how to get organized with your contacts, appointments, meetings, e-mail, and more Demonstrates how to sync up with your desktop Helps you find your way by using your BlackBerry Storm as a GPS device Provides instructions for taking great photos Learn to take full advantage of everything your new BlackBerry Storm has to offer!
Author : Althea Palmer
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781644920701
Touching Fireflies is a poetry collection, an expression of the writer's testimony of God's relentless love, a vibrant and transcended journey of praise, thanksgiving, empowerment, and inspiration. The book explores love and intimacy contrasted with the harrowing corners of loss, heartache, and hurting. The writer then honors her memory of the rhythm, culture, color, and seducing beauty of her homeland""the island of Jamaica.
Author : Lynda Ward
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610849821
After finally leaving a bad marriage, Kate Welles Brock is living on her own terms, as a businessperson, as a woman. Mysterious philanthropist Paul Florian appreciates her in a way her overbearing family and ex-husband never did, his regard as genuine as his concern for the world’s needy. Kate would find him equally easy to love–if only he weren’t so secretive about his past. 3rd of the Welles’ sisters trilogy by Lynda Ward; originally published by Harlequin Superromance
Author : Mirt Komel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350059283
Offering an in-depth analysis of the relationship between touch and language through the history of philosophy, this book revitalizes the field of haptic studies, providing new insights into the philosophy of language and ontological nature of touch. The Language of Touch draws together an international team of linguists, anthropologists, and philosophers to demonstrate from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that the experience of touch is inextricable from the structure of language. Examining the intersections between phenomenology of touch and poststructural linguistics, this work draws upon figures such as Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Derrida, and Lacan to question both how language structures touch and how touch structures language.
Author : Don Gossett
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781603747660
Encourage One Another Are you ever lonely? Do you sometimes wish that someone would call or write or just give you a friendly hug? Don Gossett knows how you feel, and he shares a very special gift in this book—the life-giving act of reaching and touching a world full of loneliness and despair. You will learn how to reach out and touch lives through… A kind word A sincere letter A gentle embrace Genuine encouragement An uplifted prayer One person is enough to reach out and make the world a better place. And when you reach out to others, you will experience the joy of seeing God work in their lives as they respond to your unique touch.
Author : Shannon Walters
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611173840
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude. In resistance to a rhetorical tradition focused on shaping able bodies and neurotypical minds, Shannon Walters explores how people with various disabilities—psychological, cognitive, and physical—employ touch to establish themselves as communicators and to connect with disabled and nondisabled audiences. In doing so, she argues for a theory of rhetoric that understands and values touch as rhetorical. Essential to her argument is a redefinition of key concepts and terms—the rhetorical situation, rhetorical identification, and the appeals of ethos (character), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic or message). By connecting Empedoclean and sophistic theories to Aristotelian rhetoric and Burkean approaches, Walters’s methods mobilize a wide range of key figures in rhetorical history and theory in response to the context of disability. Using Empedocles’ tactile approach to logos, Walters shows how the iterative writing processes of people with psychological disabilities shape crucial spaces for identification based on touch in online and real life spaces. Mobilizing the touch-based properties of the rhetorical practice of mētis, Walters demonstrates how rhetors with autism approach the crafting of ethos in generative and embodied ways. Rereading the rhetorical practice of kairos in relation to the proximity between bodies, Walters demonstrates how writers with physical disabilities move beyond approaches of pathos based on pity and inspiration. The volume also includes a classroom-based exploration of the discourses and assumptions regarding bodies in relation to haptic, or touch-based, technologies. Because the sense of touch is the most persistent of the senses, Walters argues that in contexts of disability and in situations in which people with and without disabilities interact, touch can be a particularly vital instrument for creating meaning, connection, and partial identification. She contends that a rhetoric thus reshaped stretches contemporary rhetoric and composition studies to respond to the contributions of disabled rhetors and transforms the traditional rhetorical appeals and canons. Ultimately, Walters argues, a rhetoric of touch allows for a richer understanding of the communication processes of a wide range of rhetors who use embodied strategies.
Author : Jody Seymour
Publisher : Valley Forge [Pa.] : Judson Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0817011617
Do you ever get discouraged searching for the right relationship with God? If your answer is yes, then you must read this book.
Author : Mark Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000190151
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Picking through some of these threads, the book 'feels' its way towards writing and thinking about touch as both sensory and affective experience. Taking a broadly phenomenological framework that traces tactility from Aristotle through the Enlightenment to the present day, the book examines the role of touch across a range of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual impairment and touch therapies. The Senses of Touch thereby demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores the diverse range of our 'senses' of touch.