Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the AestheticIn 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. |
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From animate body to inanimate text | 57 |
Case study Wife to Mr Rossetti Elizabeth Siddall 182962 | 168 |
Strategies of translation mitigation and exchange | 179 |
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absence aesthetic allegory ambivalence articulates beauty bride castration castrative child constructed corpse cultural Dante Gabriel Rossetti dead body dead woman death drive desire difference discussion disruption double duplicitous dying effacement Elizabeth Siddall emerges enacts engenders excess exchange fact facticity fantasies fatal feminine body feminine death femininity and death Ferdinand Hodler Freud function gaze gender gesture Heathcliff hysteric imaginary imagination implies inanimate inscribed killing Lacan lack Ligeia liminality literally living Lolita loss lover marks masculine material materialised maternal body meaning metonymy Miss Havisham mortality mother mourning murder muse narcissism narcissistic narrative narrator notion object painting paternal law poetic portrait poses position precisely presence preserved privileged psychic realm reanimated reduplication reference relation repetition representation represents resurrection revenant rhetorical semantic semantic encoding semiotic sense serves sexual signifier social stable suicide superlative symbolic Tess textual translation triumph trope turn uncanny unity virtue writing