Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker /: skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maureen F. Curtin.
• Authors: Curtin, Maureen Frances, 1969-
• Contents: Skin's eclipses in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway -- Materializing invisibility as x-ray technology : skin matters in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- Skin harvests : automation and chromatism in Thomas Pynchon's "The secret integration" and Gravity's rainbow -- Scratching the sensory surface in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Subjects: 813/.50935; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Skin in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Human skin color in literature; Human body in literature; Touch in literature; American fiction -- History and criticism -- 20th century; Skin in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Human skin color in literature; Touch in literature; Body, Human, in literature; American fiction; Human body in literature; Human skin color in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Skin in literature; Touch in literature; Fictie; Stijlfiguren; Huid; Menselijk lichaam; Aanraking; Hautfarbe (Motiv); Haut -- Motiv -- Roman -- amerikanischer; Haut -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer; Körperkontakt -- Motiv -- Roman -- amerikanischer; Körperkontakt -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer; Roman -- amerikanischer -- Motiv -- Körperkontakt; Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Körperkontakt; Roman -- amerikanischer -- Motiv -- Haut; Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Haut; Hautfarbe (Motiv); Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Mrs. Dalloway; Invisible man; Gravity's rainbow; Empire of the senseless
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135373719
• Related ISBNs: 113537371X
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