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