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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790546103321

Autore

Curtin Maureen Frances <1969, >

Titolo

Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker / / Maureen F. Curtin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-37371-X

0-415-86699-5

0-203-95389-4

1-135-37364-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

813/.50935

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Skin in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Human skin color in literature

Human body in literature

Touch in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Skin's eclipses in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway -- Materializing invisibility as x-ray technology : skin matters in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- Skin harvests : automation and chromatism in Thomas Pynchon's "The secret integration" and Gravity's rainbow -- Scratching the sensory surface in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless.

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.