Touching Literature, or the Experience of the Limit - Irving Goh Publication Date:15/07/2026 I was utterly gripped

I was utterly gripped

the novel inhabits a twentieth century under siege from older and stranger forces

Whilst his English peers gather night after night to drink and gossip in their exclusive club

� At the heart of Bui's story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother

witty vision of contemporary Japan

Touching Literature, or the Experience of the Limit - Irving Goh Publication Date:15/07/2026 I was utterly grippedTouching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial differences, and the material limits of the artwork itself. Departing from philosophies of touch proposed by such thinkers as Jean Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Jean Luc Nancy, Luce Irigaray, and Hlne Cixous that call for respecting personal limits,