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Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Body in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin
2.1 The Human Body as Lost Identity
2.1.1 Isserley’s ‘Human’ Body
2.1.2 Isserley’s Beauty Standards
2.1.3 Further Difficulties: Class and Gender
2.2 Animating the Familiar Non-Human Body
2.2.1 The Non-Human Animal
2.2.2 The Inanimate
2.3 The Vodsel-Body as Source of Conflict
2.3.1 Isserley’s Appeal and Outer Appearance
2.3.2 The Denying of Similarities
2.3.3 Who’s the Bait? – The Question of the Woman and the Animal
2.4 The Linguistic Development in the Construction of an Identity
2.4.1 Keeping Distance Through Linguistic Animalisation
2.4.2 Pulling the Linguistic Trigger: The Rape Attempt
and Murky Divisions
2.4.3 The Process of “Becoming”
2.5 The Final, Disembodied Identity
3. Conclusion
Works Cited
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- Christina Haupt (Author), 2018, The body and the construction of an identity in Michel Faber’s "Under the Skin", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/462566
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