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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rupprecht, Caroline
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.