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UNINA9910820298903321 |
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Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Human body in literature - History |
Human body in literature - Research |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""REALISM VERSUS THE REAL THING""""TERRIFYING SKIN""; ""SKIN-DEEP MEMOS AS PROSTHETIC MEMORYIN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN�S MEMENTO (2000)""; ""CONTRIBUTORS"" |
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Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores representations of skin in literature, art, art history, visual media, and medicine and its history. The essays collected here probe the symbolic potential of skin as a shifting sign in various historical and cultural contexts, and also examine the material and organic properties of the body's largest organ. They deal with skin as a sensual organ, as an interface or contact zone, as the visual marker of identity, and as a lieu de memoire in different periods and media. In its material characteristics, skin is regarded as a medium, a |
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UNINA9911004705103321 |
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Autore |
Altman Philip L. |
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Biology data book / compiled and edited by Philip L. Altman and Dorothy S. Dittmer [[electronic resource]] |
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Bethesda, Md., : Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, [1972-1974] |
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[2d ed.] |
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1 online resource (3 v. (xvii, 2123 p.)) |
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Biological handbooks Biology data book |
Biological handbooks |
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Biology - Handbooks, manuals, etc |
Reference Books, Medical |
Biology - tables |
Biology |
Health & Biological Sciences |
Biology - General |
Tables. |
Handbooks and manuals. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Handbooks of tables that cover genetics; cytology; reproduction; development and growth; biological regulators and toxins; environment; parasitism in plants and animals; nutrition; digestion and excretion; and blood and other body fluids. Each volume contains its own index. Many references. |
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