Over de dood van vrouwen in de literatuur en cultuur aan de hand van een groot aantal voorbeelden.
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 beau…
"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."--The IntroductionAmerican popular culture conducts a passionate love affair wi…
Sustaining loss: art and mournful life
This book is the study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could, at first glance, seem quite ordinary. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled 'L'Inconnue de la Seine, ' the Unknown Woman of the Sei…
'The Drowned Muse' charts the trajectory of representations of 'L'Inconnue de la Seine' in literature and the visual arts since the late 1890s and shows how the mask's metamorphoses track across the years provides points of negotiation through which to better understand modernit…
