Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker / Maureen F. Curtin. [electronic resource]
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TextSeries: Literary criticism and cultural theoryPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2003Description: 1 online resource (191 pages)ISBN: - 9780203953891 (e-book)
- Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway
- Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation
- Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man
- 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
- 813/.50935 21
- PS374.S56 C87 2003
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.