02364nam 2200541 450 991046093020332120180731043631.01-4438-7518-X(CKB)3710000000355213(EBL)2076790(OCoLC)903318550(SSID)ssj0001471268(PQKBManifestationID)11841767(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001471268(PQKBWorkID)11422644(PQKB)10091332(MiAaPQ)EBC2076790(EXLCZ)99371000000035521320150217h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrProbing the skin cultural representations of our contact zone /edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk VanderbekeNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2015.©20151 online resource (352 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-88976-7 1-4438-7068-4 ""REALISM VERSUS THE REAL THING""""TERRIFYING SKIN""; ""SKIN-DEEP MEMOS AS PROSTHETIC MEMORYIN CHRISTOPHER NOLANâ€?S MEMENTO (2000)""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""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 Human body in literatureHistoryHuman body in literatureResearchElectronic books.Human body in literatureHistory.Human body in literatureResearch.700.4561Rosenthal CarolineVanderbeke DirkMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460930203321Probing the skin1974354UNINA