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

Author/creator Bauer, Esther K. author.
Format Book
PublicationEvanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014]
Descriptionx, 194 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-187) and index.
LCCN 2014004909
ISBN9780810129931 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0810129930 (cloth : alk. paper)