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Routledge Out of Touch: Skin Tropes in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, Acker

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Out of Touch examines how skin functions as a literary trope across modernist and contemporary fiction, analysing works by Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, and Kathy Acker. This Routledge publication explores the relationship between bodily surfaces and questions of identity, offering critical insights into how these canonical and experimental writers deploy skin imagery to interrogate race, gender, and subjectivity. The study traces connections between literary modernism and postmodern writing practices, revealing how representations of skin reveal deeper cultural anxieties about boundaries, difference, and belonging. Grounded in literary theory and cultural analysis, the book contributes to ongoing conversations about embodiment, representation, and identity in twentieth-century literature. Essential reading for scholars of literary criticism, cultural theory, and modernist studies.

Key Features

Routledge publication combines literary criticism with cultural theory across four major twentieth-century authors.

Analyses skin as a central metaphor for exploring identity, race, and gender in modernist and postmodern fiction.

Compares Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, and Kathy Acker to reveal connections between literary movements.

Examines bodily representation and cultural anxieties about difference in contemporary and canonical texts.

Contributes to literary theory scholarship with interdisciplinary approaches to embodiment and subjectivity.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
06 December 2002
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05 January 2007

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