...This opening chapter begins with a reading of hand depictions in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt (1922), spinning off to consider the representation and importance of manicures and manicurists in modernist literature and culture. Thereafter, tracing the history of the term and concept...

...This chapter argues that, despite her avowed interest in the exploration of the mind, Virginia Woolf is in several important ways a bodily writer. Beginning with Woolf’s hand reading by Charlotte (Lotte) Wolff, the chapter identifies an abiding fascination amongst Woolf’s social circle...

... is also a careful attender to the human hand, which, he suggests, ‘flickers with a life of its own’ – an apparently radical assertion that can in fact be traced through the work of several modernist thinkers. body hand haptic Huxley Aldous Lawrence D H touch blind stripling cyborg Focillon Henri...

... experience, the look-which-touches of the sculpture viewer, the touch-which-looks of the blind, the process of manicure, literary treatments of the writing hand, muscular responses to motorcar travel, and frightening tales of split skins, split selves, and severed hands run amok. Haptic Modernism asks why...

...This chapter's examination of the non-human hand is informed by Jacques Derrida's challenge to the assumption that the hand is exclusive to the ‘humanual’. Recognising a growing interest in haptic technologies and the relationship between the screen and eye-contact, it addresses the role...

... ‘Nobel lighter’ hand-grenade memorialising ‘little brother’ bowenite pendant tennis racquets frater, ave atque vale ¹ How will I survive without you, O brother? I must go, O brother I must die too, O brother O brother, O brother ² Some 98,950 New Zealanders donned uniform...

... as truth and we were all obsessively washing our hands,” he writes in the book’s final sentence. Babylon Bee handwashing Afghanistan America ancient world as allegory for contemporary concerns Cold War Greek Iraq Jesus screen representations of King of Kings 1927 Nazis and Nazism political...

...This chapter turns from non-localised touch to specific body parts, unsettling the relationship between the mode of address and the theme of touch. Through a series of letters to the reader, it examines the primacy of the hand in John Berger's epistolary novel, From A to X...

...This final chapter consider the moment when hands run amok, that is, when the hand’s role as executive tool and as symbol of human agency goes awry. Tracing the history of the severed hand tale, the chapter suggests that stories about severed hands, and the film adaptations of those stories...

...This chapter looks at Beckett’s Nacht und Träume, revealing a complex referential structure by demonstrating how each minute gesture, taking its meaning by association with other hand gestures in Beckett, strives to achieve the symbolic properties of a micro-language. The chapter...

...The word “hand” occurs more times in King John than in any other Shakespeare play. This is no accident. This play imagines sovereign agency through forms of prosthesis, and figures sovereignty through synecdoche: parts standing in for wholes. The word “hand” comes to the fore at moments in the play...

... International Documentary and Short Film Festival Kerala internet Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Nainital Film Festival web based film exhibition Documentary circulation tactical media participant publics film festivals hand to hand circulation censorship copyright spectator reified roles...