Bodily desire, desired bodies : gender and desire in early twentieth-century German and Austrian novels and paintings / Esther K. Bauer.
Author/creator |
Bauer, Esther K. author. |
Format | Book and Print |
Publication Info | Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014] |
Description | x, 194 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
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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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-187) and index. |
LCCN | 2014004909 |
ISBN | 9780810129931 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0810129930 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Available Items
Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
Joyner | General Stacks | PT772 .B286 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |