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Over her dead body : death,...
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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analitica Rebiun36713117 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36713117 m o d cr#mu#nnnuuuuu 170704t20171992xxka||| ob||| 001 0 eng|d 9781526125637 9781526125644 10.7765/9781526125637 doi UAM 991008423420604211 UkLJWS WL-PoUG UkMaJRU rda eng xxk GB-BST Bronfen, Elisabeth Author Over her dead body death, femininity and the aesthetic Elisabeth Bronfen 1st ed Manchester, UK Manchester University Press 2017 Manchester, UK Manchester, UK Manchester University Press 1992 1 online resource (460 pages) illustrations (black & white); digital, PDF file(s) 1 online resource (460 pages) Manchester Gothic Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-452) and index Part I : Death : the epitome of tropes. Preparation for an autopsy ; The lady vanishes ; Violence of representation : representation of violence --Part II : Rom animate body to inanimate text. The 'most' poetic topic ; Deathbed scenes ; Bodies on display ; The lady is a portrait ; Noli me videre ; Case Study : Wife to Mr Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddall (1829-62) --Part III : Strategies of translation, mitigation and exchange. Sacrificing extremity ; Femininity : missing in action ; Close encounters of a fatal kind --Part IV : Stabilising the ambivalence of repetition. The speculated woman ; Rigor has set in : the wasted bride ; Necromancy, or closing the crack on the gravestone ; Risky resemblances ; Spectral stories ; The dead beloved as muse ; Case study : Henry's sister, Alice James (1848-92) --Conclusion : Aporias of resistance. From muse to creatrix : Snow White unbound 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 In English 0-7190-3827-8 1-5261-2563-3 Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England)