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

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New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description	1 online resource (191 pages).
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Series	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.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997 -- 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.
	Human body in literature.
	Touch in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Curtin, Maureen Frances. Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker. New York : Routledge, 2003 xvi, 172 pages ; 24 cm. Literary criticism and cultural theory 9780415940191 (OCoLC)ocm49824681 (DLC) 2002006966
ISBN	0415940192 (hardback)
	9780415940191
	9780203953891 (electronic bk.)