Over her dead body : Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0719038278
ISBN-13
9780719038273
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 1992
Print length
480 Pages
Weight
770 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.50 x 2.60 cms
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The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women. -- .
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that ''the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world''. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs.
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