Bodily desire, desired bodies
Subtitle: gender and desire in early twentieth-century German and Austrian novels and paintings
By: Esther K. Bauer
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Evanston, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780810129931
Subjects: German fiction; History and criticism; Austrian fiction; German Painting; Themes, motives; Austrian Painting; 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: Changing visions and visualizations of gender, desire, and the body --; title: New woman, new body : female images by Vicki Baum, Christian Schad, and Otto Dix --; title: Representations of femininity : Vicki Baum's Helene and works by Gustav Klimt, Franz von Stuck, and Anselm Feuerbach --; title: The body between sex and violence : Franz Kafka's Brunelda and Otto Dix's Three women --; title: Looking to dominate : power and gender in Franz Kafka's Amerika and Egon Schiele's Seated male nude (self-portrait) --; title: 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.