LEADER 02458nam 2200577 450 001 9910787432703321 005 20230807213550.0 010 $a1-4438-7518-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000355213 035 $a(EBL)2076790 035 $a(OCoLC)903318550 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001471268 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11841767 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001471268 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11422644 035 $a(PQKB)10091332 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2076790 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3051665 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3051665 035 $a(OCoLC)927460797 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000355213 100 $a20150217h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aProbing the skin $ecultural representations of our contact zone /$fedited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNewcastle upon Tyne, England :$cCambridge Scholars Publishing,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-88976-7 311 $a1-4438-7068-4 327 $a""REALISM VERSUS THE REAL THING""""TERRIFYING SKIN""; ""SKIN-DEEP MEMOS AS PROSTHETIC MEMORYIN CHRISTOPHER NOLANa???S MEMENTO (2000)""; ""CONTRIBUTORS"" 330 $aAdopting 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 606 $aHuman body in literature$xHistory 606 $aHuman body in literature$xResearch 615 0$aHuman body in literature$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman body in literature$xResearch. 676 $a700.4561 702 $aRosenthal$b Caroline 702 $aVanderbeke$b Dirk 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787432703321 996 $aProbing the skin$93743895 997 $aUNINA