Between the Sign and the Gaze

By Herman Rapaport

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481333
• ISBN13: 9780801481338
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher