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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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Herman Rapaport holds the Helen L. DeRoy chair in the Department of English at Wayne State University.
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"Rapaport's highly performative book directs its analytical energy to an analysis of the fantasm, the representational field that remains folded 'between' the 'sign and the gaze' and their frequent discussion."
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- PublisherCornell University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0801481333
- ISBN 13 9780801481338
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages312
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