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  • Serial Shakespeare
    Elisabeth Bronfen
    Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely over American TV drama, it discusses the use of citations in Westworld and The Wire, demonstrating how they tap into but also transform Shakespeare’s preferred themes and concerns. It then examines the presentation of female presidents ...
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    35,55 €

  • Crossmappings
    Elisabeth Bronfen
    The influential cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema, and visual culture. The crossmappings in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its representability, the gendering of war, death and the fragility of life, as wel...
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    45,00 €

  • The Knotted Subject
    Elisabeth Bronfen
    Surrealist writer André Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the 'wastebasket of medicine,' a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria...
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    107,02 €

  • Dorothy Richardson’s ’Art of Memory’
    Elisabeth Bronfen / Victoria Appelbe
    Addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning, by mapping Dorothy Richardson’s early modernist text, Pilgrimage, against our postmodern interest in real and imagined geographies. ...
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    36,85 €

  • Over her dead body
    Elisabeth Bronfen
    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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    34,60 €