Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

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.

Author: Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 10/01/1992
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.97d
ISBN13: 9780719038273
ISBN10: 0719038278
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance
- Literary Criticism | Horror & Supernatural

About the Author
Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich