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Author:

Rupprecht, Caroline.

Title:

Womb fantasies : subjective architectures in postmodern literature, cinema, and art / Caroline Rupprecht.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiv, 132 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
French literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Human body in motion pictures.
Human beings in art.
Motherhood in literature.
Motherhood in motion pictures.
Motherhood in art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Frontispiece: Eero Saarinen's Womb chair as fallout shelter -- Part one: Geographies -- Agoraphobia: Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour and The vice-consul -- Heterotopia: Alexander Kluge's Yesterday girl and The blind director -- Part two: 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.

ISBN:

0810129132 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780810129139 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)816564648

LCCN:

2013002165

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)