Over her dead body : death, femininity and the aesthetic /: death, femininity and the aesthetic. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elisabeth Bronfen.
• Other Names: Bronfen, Elisabeth
• Contents: Pt. 1. Death: the epitome of tropes. Preparation for an autopsy -- The lady vanishes -- Violence of representation -- representation of violence -- pt. 2. From animate body to inanimate text. The 'most' poetic topic -- Deathbed scenes -- Bodies on display -- The lady is a portrait -- Noli me videre -- pt. 3. Strategies of translation, mitigation and exchange. Sacrificing extremity -- Femininity: missing in action -- Close encounters of a fatal kind -- pt. 4. Stabilising the ambivalence of repetition -- The speculated woman -- Rigor has set in: the wasted bride -- Necromancy, or closing the crack on the gravestone -- Risky resemblances -- Spectral stories -- The dead beloved as muse -- Conclusion: Aporias of resistance.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (460 pages)
• Subjects: 305.4; 700.82; Death in literature; Women in literature; Death in art; Women in art; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Death -- Psychological aspects; Femininity in literature; Women in literature; Death in art; Death in literature; Death in art; Death in literature; Death -- Psychological aspects; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Femininity in literature; Women in art; Women in literature; Frau; Frau; Geschichte; Künste; Literatur; Tod; Tod; Vrouwen; Dood; Letterkunde; Beeldende kunsten; Geschichte 1750-1980; Frau; Geschichte (1750-1980); Englisch; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526125637; 1526125633
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.