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 ISBN 9780415940191
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index
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.