التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Haptic poetics and community (re)building in Swinburne’s The Flogging Block. |
| المؤلفون: |
Zhang, Ruixue1 (AUTHOR) zhangruixue@uic.edu.cn |
| المصدر: |
Textual Practice. Aug2024, p1-16. 16p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*CONSTRUCTION projects, *POETICS, *INTIMACY (Psychology), *PUNISHMENT, *CARICATURE |
| مستخلص: |
This article focuses on Swinburne’s unpublished manuscript The Flogging Block and its 2011 transcription produced by Mark McDougal. Caricaturing the corporeal punishment at Eton, Swinburne’s poem integrates touch, sound, and sight in the text. However, the transcription seems to compromise this multimodality in a print medium. McDougal hopes that his inadequate rendering of Swinburne’s hands could be completed by future interested readers with higher technologies. My article is an interested response to this hope and reads McDougal’s adaptation as a haptic mediation of Swinburne’s multimodal poetics. Through the lens of Sara Ahmed’s disorientation theory, I argue that Swinburne’s poem disorients readers’ sensory experience of language, critiques his contemporary ideological repression of body, and rebuilds a community based on bodily connections. The first part of the article conducts a reversed reading that first examines McDougal’s haptic mediation of Swinburne’s manuscript and then explores Swinburne’s techniques of sensory disorientation. The second part relates this sensory disorientation to Swinburne’s republican project of building a community through appropriating pornographic techniques and through stressing the role of rhyme. Both McDougal’s adaptation and Swinburne’s manuscript endeavour to recover our lost intimacy with language, with one another, and with the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Academic Search Index |