 | Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies Subjects: Sex role in art.; Desire in art.; Human figure in art.; Sex role in literature.; Desire in literature.; Human body in literature.; Gender identity in literature.; Painting Austrian; Painting German; Austrian fiction; German fiction; Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies examines the diverse ways that literary works and paintings can be read as screens onto which new images of masculinity and femininity are cast. Esther Bauer focuses on German and Austrian writers and artists from the 1910s and 1920s --specifically authors Franz Kafka, Vicki Baum, and Thomas Mann, and painters Otto Dix, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele--who gave spectacular expression to shifting trends in male and female social roles and the organization of physical desire and the sexual body. ESTHER K. BAUER is an assistant professor of German at Virginia Tech. |
