Womb fantasies
Subtitle: subjective architectures in postmodern literature, cinema, and art
By: Caroline Rupprecht
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780810129139
Subjects: German literature; History and criticism; French literature; Human body in literature; Human body in motion pictures; Human beings in art; Motherhood in literature; Motherhood in motion pictures; Motherhood in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-123) and index.
Table of contents: title: Frontispiece: Eero Saarinen's Womb chair as fallout shelter; title: Part one: Geographies; title: Agoraphobia: Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour and The vice-consul; title: Heterotopia: Alexander Kluge's Yesterday girl and The blind director; title: Part two: Boundaries; title: Matricide: Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries: from the life of Gesine Cresspahl; title: Womb envy: Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, A woman is a woman, and Hail Mary; title: End piece: the future is here, and it's dead: Damien Hirst's Virgin mother.