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

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS374.S56 C87 2003	Available	---

Description	xvi, 172 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Literary criticism and cultural theory
	Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Skin in literature.
	Skin in literature.
	Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997.
	Criticism and interpretation.
	Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway.
	Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Pynchon, Thomas.
	Identity (Psychology) in literature.
	Identity (Psychology) in literature.
	Ellison, Ralph. Invisible man.
	Human skin color in literature.
	Human skin color in literature.
	Human body in literature.
	Human body in literature.
	Touch in literature.
	Touch in literature.
ISBN	0415940192 hardback