Out of touch : skin tropes and identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker - Curtin, Maureen Frances, 1969- (New York : Routledge, 2003)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.
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Keywords: Acker, Kathy, -- 1948-1997 -- 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; Human body in literature; Touch in literature; Electronic books