Womb fantasies : subjective architectures in postmodern literature, cinema, and art /
This book examines the womb, an invisible and mysterious space invested with allegorical significance, as a metaphorical space in postwar cinematic and literary texts grappling with the trauma of post-holocaust, postmodern existence. In addition, it examines the representation of visible spaces in t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Ill. :
Northwestern University Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontispiece : Eero Saarinen's Womb chair as fallout shelter
- Geographies. Agoraphobia : Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour and The vice-consul ; Heterotopia : Alexander Kluge's Yesterday girl and The blind director
- Boundaries. Matricide : Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries: from the life of Gesine Cresspahl ; Womb envy : Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, A woman is a woman, and Hail Mary
- End piece : the future is here, and it's dead : Damien Hirst's Virgin mother.