ISBN: 9781135373641

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 s… More...

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 identity politics. The skin has a complex history as a metaphorical terrain over which ideological wars are fought, identity is asserted through modification as in tattooing, and meaning is inscribed upon the human being. Yet even as interventions on the skin characterize much of this history, fantasy and science fiction literature and film trumpet skin's passing in the cybernetic age, and feminist theory calls for abandoning the skin as a hostile boundary.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general, Taylor and Francis<

2013, ISBN: 9781135373641

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. eBook Maureen F. Curtin PDF, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 13.09.2013, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2013

2013, ISBN: 9781135373641

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. eBook Maureen F. Curtin 13.09.2013, Taylor & Francis Ltd., Taylor & Francis Ltd.

2013, ISBN: 9781135373641

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. eBook PDF, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 13.09.2013, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2013

2013, ISBN: 9781135373641

Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: Taylor and Francis], Taylor and Francis, 2013