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Womb fantasies

Rupprecht, Caroline.

Womb fantasies subjective architectures in postmodern literature, cinema, and art / [electronic resource] : Caroline Rupprecht. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (148 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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


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