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Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic - Softcover

Bronfen, Elisabeth

 
9780719038273: Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719038278 ISBN 13: 9780719038273
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich

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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.

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.

Aus dem Klappentext

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.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.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719038278
ISBN 13 
9780719038273
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
480
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