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Author:

Curtin, Maureen Frances, 1969-

Title:

Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker / Maureen F. Curtin.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xvi, 172 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Acker, Kathy,--1948---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.
Body, Human, in literature.
Touch in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-163) and index.

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.

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

ISBN:

9780415940191 (hardback)
0415940192 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49824681

LCCN:

2002006966

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)