Skin

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Skin is written by Claudia Benthien and published by Columbia University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 023112502X (ISBN 10) and 9780231125024 (ISBN 13).

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.