The Body Maimed, the Body Liberated
I. Construction: Body and Gender
Chapter One:
Negotiating the Bodily Image: Women in Contemporary Literature and Film
Chapter Two:
»A picture before which art must despair«: Beauty, Dress, and Visual Image in Wedekind's Sex Tragedies
Chapter Three:
The Performance of Male Subjectivity: Bodybuilding, Narcissism, and Voyeurism in Bodo Kirchhoff
II. Destruction: Negation and Desire
Chapter Four:
The Spectacle of Punishment: The Production of Tortured Subjects in Kafka
Chapter Five:
The Production of Negated Subjects as Erotic Bodies in Sadistic and Masochistic Scenes