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Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh
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Karmen MacKendrick
Published online: 10 March 2011
Published in print: 01 December 2004
... popular Catholic devotional image with an intriguing set of devotees—medieval mystics, sweet old ladies, and tattooed punks—in light of theoretical work of Foucault on the idea of inscribed bodies, of the cut. Theologically and philosophically sophisticated, indeed masterly, the book never loses its...