Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

by Elisabeth Bronfen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719038278
• ISBN13: 9780719038273
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary