1st Edition
Out of Touch Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker
By Maureen F. Curtin
Copyright 2003
192 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Out of Touch investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory, and cultural criticism. These discourses reveal the extent to which skin figures in the cultural effect of changes in visual technologies, a development argued by critics to be at the heart of the contest between surface and depth and, by extension, Western globalization and... Read more
Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Skin's Eclipses in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Chapter 2 Materializing Invisibility as X-Ray Technology: Skin Matters in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Chapter 3 Skin Harvests: Automation and Chromatism in Thomas Pynchon's The Secret Integration and Gravity's Rainbow Chapter 4 Scratching the Sensory Surface in Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Maureen F. Curtin
