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Between the Sign and the Gaze

Between the Sign and the Gaze

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral PsychologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0801481333
ISBN13: 9780801481338
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Mar 28 1994
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

A woman turns into a piece of furniture (Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest); a writer of children's books takes photos of naked little girls (Lewis Carroll); Mont Blanc becomes the maternal breast (Shelley); Hamlet mistakes Ophelia for a phallus (Lacan's Hamlet seminar); and mom turns out to have thermonuclear arms (Laurie Anderson's United States). Reviewing the ways in which women have been fantasized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western culture, Herman Rapaport offers a series of brilliant insights into the concept of the fantasm in modern art.

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