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Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies : Gender and Desire in Early Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Novels and Paintings /

"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 Ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bauer, Esther K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: 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"
  • Conclusion.