Out of touch
Subtitle: skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker
By: Maureen F. Curtin.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Acker, Kathy, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation; Ellison, Ralph; 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.
Table of contents: title: Skin's eclipses in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway; title: Materializing invisibility as x-ray technology : skin matters in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man; title: Skin harvests : automation and chromatism in Thomas Pynchon's "The secret integration" and Gravity's rainbow; title: Scratching the sensory surface in Kathy Acker's Empire of the senseless.