Tactile Poetics

A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theory Sarah Jackson has received one of the AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker awards!Listen to a podcast by Sarah Jackson for BBC Radio 3 The intimate links between the page and the skin have been explored by writers for centuries. Yet despite the current interest in the surface of the body, the relationship between touching and writing remains neglected. Drawing on new debates in deconst