Research Catalog

Title

Images of the corpse : from the Renaissance to cyberspace / edited by Elizabeth Klaver.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Klaver, Elizabeth.

Description

xx, 238 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Dead in art
• Dead in literature
• Arts, European

Note

• "A Ray and Pat Browne book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Autopsy: the final diagnosis / Eugene Arnold -- Physiology and fabrication: the art of making visible / Maria Angel -- Blood and circuses / Kate Cregan -- Representation of the dead body in literature and medical writings during the restoration in France (1799-1848) / Robert S. April -- The carnivalesque Defunto: death and the dead in modern Brazilian literature / Robert H. Moser -- Watching over the wounded eyes of Georges Bataille and Andres Serrano / Kylie Rachel Message -- Optative death: Gerard Richter in the wake of the vanguard / Andrew McNamara -- You can't keep a dead woman down: the female corpse and textual disruption in contemporary Hollywood / Deborah Jermyn -- Database/body: digital anatomy and the precession of medical simulation / Eugene Thacker -- The body in the next room: death as differend / Michael Mendelson -- Dead or alive / Jen Webb and Lorraine Webb.

Call Number

JFE 05-10827

ISBN

• 0299197905 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0299197948 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003020575

OCLC

53045276

Title

Images of the corpse : from the Renaissance to cyberspace / edited by Elizabeth Klaver.

Imprint

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Klaver, Elizabeth.

Research Call Number

JFE 05-10827