Bodily desire, desired bodies : gender and desire in early twentieth-century German and Austrian novels and paintings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Esther K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
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Table of 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.