1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820298903321

Titolo

Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-7518-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

700.4561

Soggetti

Human body in literature - History

Human body in literature - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""REALISM VERSUS THE REAL THING""""TERRIFYING SKIN""; ""SKIN-DEEP MEMOS AS PROSTHETIC MEMORYIN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN�S MEMENTO (2000)""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911004705103321

Autore

Altman Philip L.

Titolo

Biology data book / compiled and edited by Philip L. Altman and Dorothy S. Dittmer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethesda, Md., : Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, [1972-1974]

ISBN

1-60119-107-3

Edizione

[2d ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 v. (xvii, 2123 p.))

Collana

Biological handbooks Biology data book

Biological handbooks

Disciplina

574/.021/2

Soggetti

Biology - Handbooks, manuals, etc

Reference Books, Medical

Biology - tables

Biology

Health & Biological Sciences

Biology - General

Tables.

Handbooks and manuals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Sommario/riassunto

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.