Description:
Studies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touch
Brief description: Johannes Ungelenk is Junior Professor for Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, in the Department for Arts and Media at University of Potsdam, Germany. He is the author of Literature and Weather: Shakespeare - Goethe - Zola (De Gruyter, 2018), Sexes of Winds and Packs: Rethinking Feminism with Deleuze and Guattari (Marta Press, 2014) and Narcissus and Echo: A Political Reading of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (wvt, 2012).
Review Quotes: Many distances are touched on in Johannes Ungelenk's brilliant new book: distances between actors onstage, between actors and audiences, between men and women, between political authorities and political minorities, between scholars and texts, between control and openness within one's self. Ungelenk's "philology of touch" offers an inviting new approach to the practices of contemporary academic writing.--Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California