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The Bohemian body : gender and sexuality in modern Czech culture / Alfred Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Alfred.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Czech literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Czech literature.
- Czech literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Motion pictures--Czech Republic--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Culture in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the modernist forces within nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights.
- Contents:
- Maidens, barbarians, and vampires : nationality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Czech literature
- Gender, form, and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Czech women's writing
- Czech mates : homosexuality in Czech modernist short fiction, 1917-20
- Between Paris and Moscow : sexuality and politics in interwar Czech poetry and film
- Robots, golems, and femmes fatales : the drama of Karel Čapek
- Terror and dream were my father and mother : postwar Czech fiction and film
- "The unborn" : postwar feminist fiction and film.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-25586-X
- 9786612255861
- 0-299-22283-7
- OCLC:
- 318240534
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb08771 hdl
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