Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous, Emotional Healing, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism
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Overview
The conjuction of death, art, and femininity is a rich and unexplored stratum of Western culture. Why do dead women fascinate even as they repel? Why is the death of a beautiful woman figure so centrallly located in art and literature? And what does this tell us aboutthe role of women in contemprary Westen society? In Over Her Dead Body, Elisabeth Bronfen attempts to remap the history of Western thought about women's bodies. material from a common repertoire of culrtural images, can be read as symptoms of our culture.
Book Details
Published
November 30, 1992
Publisher
New York : Routledge, 1992.
Pages
450
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780415906616