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Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies : Gender and Desire in Early Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Novels and Paintings / Esther K. Bauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bauer, Esther K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role in art.
- Desire in art.
- Human figure in art.
- Sex role in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Painting, Austrian--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Painting, Austrian.
- Painting, German--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Painting, German.
- Austrian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Austrian fiction.
- German fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- German fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 194 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies examines the diverse ways that literary works and paintings can be read as screens onto which new images of masculinity and femininity are cast.Esther Bauer focuses on German and Austrian writers and artists from the 1910s and 1920s --specifically authors Franz Kafka, Vicki Baum, and Thomas Mann, and painters Otto.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6781-6
- OCLC:
- 885292644
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