The Resource Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world, Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap
Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world, Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap
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- Summary
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- This cultural study examines the relations among self-consciousness, subjectivity, and skin from the eighteenth century to the present. Claudia Benthien argues that despite medicine's having penetrated the bodily surface and exposed the interior of the body as never before, skin, paradoxically, has become a more and more unyielding symbol. She also examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings, as well as Germanic, American, and African American literature.--
- Benthien discusses the semantic and psychic aspects of touching, feeling, and intellectual perception; the motifs of perforated, armored, or transparent skin; and much more through close readings of such authors as Kleist, Buchner, Hawthorne, Balzac, Rilke, Kafka, Plath, Morrison, Wideman, and Ondaatje. Myriad images from the Renaissance, anatomy books, and contemporary visual and performance art enhance the text."--Jacket
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Extent
- x, 290 pages
- Contents
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- Blackness: Skin Color in African-American Discourse
- Hand and Skin: Anthropology and Iconography of the Cutaneous Senses
- Touchings: On the Analogous Nature of Erotic, Emotive, and "Psychic" Skin Sensations
- Teletactility: The Skin in New Media
- The Depth of the Surface: Introduction
- Boundary Metaphors: Skin in Language
- Penetrations: Body Boundaries and the Production of Knowledge in Medicine and Cultural Practices
- Flayings: Exposure, Torture, Metamorphoses
- Mirror of the Soul: The Epidermis as Canvas
- Mystification: The Strangeness of the Skin
- Armored Skin and Birthmarks: The Imagology of a Gender Difference
- Different Skin: Skin Colors in Literature and the History of Science
- Isbn
- 9780231125024
- Label
- Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world
- Title
- Skin
- Title remainder
- on the cultural border between self and the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Summary
-
- This cultural study examines the relations among self-consciousness, subjectivity, and skin from the eighteenth century to the present. Claudia Benthien argues that despite medicine's having penetrated the bodily surface and exposed the interior of the body as never before, skin, paradoxically, has become a more and more unyielding symbol. She also examines the changing significance of skin through brilliant analyses of art, philosophy, and anatomical drawings and writings, as well as Germanic, American, and African American literature.--
- Benthien discusses the semantic and psychic aspects of touching, feeling, and intellectual perception; the motifs of perforated, armored, or transparent skin; and much more through close readings of such authors as Kleist, Buchner, Hawthorne, Balzac, Rilke, Kafka, Plath, Morrison, Wideman, and Ondaatje. Myriad images from the Renaissance, anatomy books, and contemporary visual and performance art enhance the text."--Jacket
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- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Benthien, Claudia
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Translated from the German
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Dunlap, Thomas
- Series statement
- European perspectives
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Skin
- Skin
- Human skin color
- Human body
- Label
- Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world, Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-277) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Blackness: Skin Color in African-American Discourse
- Hand and Skin: Anthropology and Iconography of the Cutaneous Senses
- Touchings: On the Analogous Nature of Erotic, Emotive, and "Psychic" Skin Sensations
- Teletactility: The Skin in New Media
- The Depth of the Surface: Introduction
- Boundary Metaphors: Skin in Language
- Penetrations: Body Boundaries and the Production of Knowledge in Medicine and Cultural Practices
- Flayings: Exposure, Torture, Metamorphoses
- Mirror of the Soul: The Epidermis as Canvas
- Mystification: The Strangeness of the Skin
- Armored Skin and Birthmarks: The Imagology of a Gender Difference
- Different Skin: Skin Colors in Literature and the History of Science
- Control code
- ocm49261171
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 290 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231125024
- Lccn
- 2002019396
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)49261171
- Label
- Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world, Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-277) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Blackness: Skin Color in African-American Discourse
- Hand and Skin: Anthropology and Iconography of the Cutaneous Senses
- Touchings: On the Analogous Nature of Erotic, Emotive, and "Psychic" Skin Sensations
- Teletactility: The Skin in New Media
- The Depth of the Surface: Introduction
- Boundary Metaphors: Skin in Language
- Penetrations: Body Boundaries and the Production of Knowledge in Medicine and Cultural Practices
- Flayings: Exposure, Torture, Metamorphoses
- Mirror of the Soul: The Epidermis as Canvas
- Mystification: The Strangeness of the Skin
- Armored Skin and Birthmarks: The Imagology of a Gender Difference
- Different Skin: Skin Colors in Literature and the History of Science
- Control code
- ocm49261171
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 290 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231125024
- Lccn
- 2002019396
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)49261171
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