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028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhi _c: 123035 _d: 22/07/2026
082			_a809.93 BRO
100			_aBronfen, Elisabeth.
245			_aOver her dead body: Death _b: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic. _c/ Elisabeth Bronfen.
260			_aManchester _b : Manchester Univ _c , 1992.
300			_axvii,460p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2284
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aLiterary Criticism
650			_aDeath of Literature
700			_aElisabeth Bronfen.
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