Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
ISBN-10
0719038278
ISBN-13
9780719038273
Series
Over Her Dead Body
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
460
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Author
Elisabeth Bronfen

Description

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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