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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*there's something female about being dead*: thus joyce carol oates in *blonde*. and if in search of an articulate explanation for this brilliant insight, elizabeth bronfen's book is what you're looking for. in a comprehensive survey of literary, cinematic and sociological archetypes, ranging from shelley's *frankenstein* to freud's clinical cases, bronfen analyses the trope of *dead* as *the Other* par excellence, and exposes western attempt to distance death and thereby elaborate it safely. theoretically premissed on lacan's neo-freudianism and feminist studies of representation (namely laura mulvey's), *over her dead body* somehow manages to steer clear of the obscurity of both, and remains interesting and eminently readable right to the last page.
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"Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women."
Ambiguity uses words to express nothing.
I hope that set of words isn't found in this book, otherwise, I don't want to read it. Sry ppls.
Ambiguity uses words to express nothing.
I hope that set of words isn't found in this book, otherwise, I don't want to read it. Sry ppls.
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