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Author:

Bauer, Esther K., author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 194 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

German fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Austrian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Painting, German--20th century--Themes, motives.
Painting, Austrian--20th century--Themes, motives.
Gender identity in literature.
Human body in literature.
Desire in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Human figure in art.
Desire in art.
Sex role in art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-187) and index.

Contents:

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. 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.

ISBN:

0810129930 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780810129931 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858366229

LCCN:

2014004909

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)