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Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores representations of skin in literature, art, art history, visual media, and medicine and its history. The essays collected here probe the symbolic potential of skin as a shifting sign in various historical and cultural contexts, and also ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rosenthal, Caroline, 1969- (Editor ), Vanderbeke, Dirk, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Temas:
Skin in literature.
Skin in art.
Skin > Social aspects.
Peau dans l'art.
Literature & literary studies.
Interdisciplinary studies.
Body art & tattooing.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Skin in art
Skin in literature
Skin > Social aspects
Kultur
Literatur
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Literature
  • The Treachery of (Local) Colour : Representations of Skin in Louisiana Local Colour Stories / Florian Freitag
  • Probing the Scar: An Exploration of Cultural Duality in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Possessing the Secret of Joy / Agnieszka Lobodziec
  • B̀lackening' the Smell of Skin : The Odour of Race in Modernist and Postmodernist Literature / Daniela Babilon
  • T̀o Highlight My Beautiful Chocolate Skin' : On the Cultural Politics of the Racialised Epidermis / Silke Hackenesch
  • Becoming White in Europe : Skin Discourses and Skin Colour in Contemporary Irish Literature / Sarah Heinz
  • An Artist's Second Skin : The Exploration of Skin in Tanizaki Junichiro's "The Tattooer" ("Shisei") / Ana Dosen
  • "An Interminable Cretan Labyrinth" : Tattoos as Text in Melville's Sea Fiction / Kerstin Knopf
  • Artistic Explorations
  • Ventriculus : Residue of Subjectivity / Marie Bannerot McInerney
  • A Rash, a Burn, a Bite: Inhabiting Canadian Skin / Aritha Van Herk
  • Visual Media and Film
  • Marie-Guillemine Benoist's P̀ortrait d'une negresse' and the Visibility of Skin Colour / Mechthild Fend
  • Roses and Daggers : Expressions of Emotional Pain and Devotion in 19th-Century Tattoos / Gemma Angel
  • Skin Portraiture : Relational Embodiment and Contemporary Art / Heidi Kellett
  • Tattoo Art and Art Tattoos : Tattooing as an Artistic Medium since the 1970s / Sabine Kampmann
  • Realism versus the Real Thing : Showing Skin in Art and Medicine / Ann Ponten
  • Terrifying Skin / Almut Weitze
  • Skin-Deep Memos as Prosthetic Memory in Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000) / Catalina Botez.

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