Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke
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| Titolo: |
Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone / / edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke
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| Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 700.4561 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human body in literature - History |
| Human body in literature - Research | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | RosenthalCaroline |
| VanderbekeDirk | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Probing the skin |
| ISBN: | 1-4438-7518-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787432703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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