Out of Touch - Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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

About the author

Maureen F. Curtin

Product details

• Authors: Maureen F Curtin, Maureen F. Curtin, Curtin Maureen F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2015
• EAN: 9780415866996
• ISBN: 978-0-415-86699-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography, Literature and Literary studies