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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "Haut. English".
- catalog contributor b12644829.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-277) and index.".
- catalog description "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 -- 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.".
- catalog extent "x, 290 p. :".
- catalog identifier "023112502X (cloth)".
- catalog isPartOf "European perspectives".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "2002 N-747".
- catalog subject "306.4 21".
- catalog subject "Anthropology, Physical.".
- catalog subject "Body Image.".
- catalog subject "Body image.".
- catalog subject "Culture.".
- catalog subject "GN 191 B476h 2002a".
- catalog subject "GN191 .B4613 2002".
- catalog subject "Human body Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Human skin color.".
- catalog subject "Physical anthropology.".
- catalog subject "Skin History.".
- catalog subject "Skin Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Skin.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 -- 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.".
- catalog title "Haut. English".
- catalog title "Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world / Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".