Irving Goh is Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University and Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. His books include The Reject and Living On After Failure.

• Introduction: The Touch of Literature 1. Touching Thoughts: The Respect of Limits in Contemporary French Thought2. In Search of Touch: Proust's La Recherche and the Limits of Time, Memory, and Finitude3. Touching Eating: Clarice Lispector and the Limits of Subjectivity and EthicsPostscript: Pulsating with More Violent Touching and Eating in Água Viva and A Breath of Life4. "Material and Vibratory," or, Toward a Touching Literature: Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See5. The Negative Touch of Poems: From Shakespeare's Sonnets to E. E. Cummings's PoemsConclusion: For a Nontheological and Nonanthropocentric Poetics of Prayer

Irving Goh is Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University and Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. His books include The Reject and Living On After Failure.

• Introduction: The Touch of Literature 1. Touching Thoughts: The Respect of Limits in Contemporary French Thought2. In Search of Touch: Proust's La Recherche and the Limits of Time, Memory, and Finitude3. Touching Eating: Clarice Lispector and the Limits of Subjectivity and EthicsPostscript: Pulsating with More Violent Touching and Eating in Água Viva and A Breath of Life4. "Material and Vibratory," or, Toward a Touching Literature: Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See5. The Negative Touch of Poems: From Shakespeare's Sonnets to E. E. Cummings's PoemsConclusion: For a Nontheological and Nonanthropocentric Poetics of Prayer

Irving Goh is Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University and Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. His books include The Reject and Living On After Failure.

• Introduction: The Touch of Literature 1. Touching Thoughts: The Respect of Limits in Contemporary French Thought2. In Search of Touch: Proust's La Recherche and the Limits of Time, Memory, and Finitude3. Touching Eating: Clarice Lispector and the Limits of Subjectivity and EthicsPostscript: Pulsating with More Violent Touching and Eating in Água Viva and A Breath of Life4. "Material and Vibratory," or, Toward a Touching Literature: Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See5. The Negative Touch of Poems: From Shakespeare's Sonnets to E. E. Cummings's PoemsConclusion: For a Nontheological and Nonanthropocentric Poetics of Prayer