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Bodily desire, desired bodies : gender and desire in early twentieth-century German and Austrian novels and paintings
- Title
- Bodily desire, desired bodies : gender and desire in early twentieth-century German and Austrian novels and paintings / Esther K. Bauer.
- Author
- Bauer, Esther K.
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
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- Description
- x, 194 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Alternative Title
- Gender and desire in early twentieth-century German and Austrian novels and paintings
- Subject
- German fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Austrian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Painting, German > 20th century > Themes, motives
- Painting, Austrian > 20th century > Themes, motives
- Gender identity in literature
- Human body in literature
- Desire in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Human figure in art
- Desire in art
- Sex role in art
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-187) and index.
- Contents
- Changing visions and visualizations of gender, desire, and the body -- New woman, new body : female images by Vicki Baum, Christian Schad, and Otto Dix -- Representations of femininity : Vicki Baum's Helene and works by Gustav Klimt, Franz von Stuck, and Anselm Feuerbach -- The body between sex and violence : Franz Kafka's Brunelda and Otto Dix's Three women -- Looking to dominate : power and gender in Franz Kafka's Amerika and Egon Schiele's Seated male nude (self-portrait) -- Gender is in the eye of the beholder : the look of desire in Thomas Mann's The magic mountain and Christian Schad's Count St. Genois d'Anneaucourt.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-6035
- ISBN
- 9780810129931 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0810129930 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014004909
- OCLC
- 858366229
- Author
- Bauer, Esther K., author.
- Title
- Bodily desire, desired bodies : gender and desire in early twentieth-century German and Austrian novels and paintings / Esther K. Bauer.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-187) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-6035