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Bronfen, Elisabeth Eve was born on April 23, 1958 in Munich. Daughter of George B. and Ingeborg Margot Bronfen.
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Der Literarische Raum: Eine Untersuchung Am Beispiel Von Dorothy M. Richardsons Romanzyklus "Pilgrimage" (Studien Zur Englischen Philologie. Neue Folge) (German Edition)
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Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic
(In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beaut...)
In 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.
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Over Her Dead Body: Femininity, Death and the Aesthetic
(The conjuction of death, art, and femininity is a rich an...)
The conjuction of death, art, and femininity is a rich and unexplored stratum of Western culture. Why do dead women fascinate even as they repel? Why is the death of a beautiful woman figure so centrallly located in art and literature? And what does this tell us about the role of women in contemprary Westen society? In Over Her Dead Body, Elisabeth Bronfen attempts to remap the history of Western thought about women's bodies. material from a common repertoire of cultural images, can be read as symptoms of our culture.
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Over Her Dead Body: Femininity, Death and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen (1992-08-14)
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Elisabeth Eve Bronfen
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor magna cum laude, Radcliffe College, 1979; Master of Arts cum laude, Harvard University, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, Munich U., 1986.
Career
Freelance actress German television, ZDF, BR, Munich, 1975-1976; lecturer English department, Munich U., 1982-1985; assistant professor, Munich U., 1985-1991; associate professor, Munich U., since 1991. Lecturer Munich Art Academy, 1988-1991. Assistant professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987-1988.
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Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic
(In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beaut...)
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Over Her Dead Body: Femininity, Death and the Aesthetic
(The conjuction of death, art, and femininity is a rich an...)
- Der Literarische Raum: Eine Untersuchung Am Beispiel Von Dorothy M. Richardsons Romanzyklus "Pilgrimage" (Studien Zur Englischen Philologie. Neue Folge) (German Edition)
- Over Her Dead Body: Femininity, Death and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen (1992-08-14)
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Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic
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Member Modern Language Association American, Gesellschaft fur Amerika Studien Deutschland, Phi Beta Kappa.
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