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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Female corpse"”.
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Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks
… a feminist reading, representations of the female corpse in fashion photography and art. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall's theories on the concept of representation are utilised to critically analyse and interogate selected images from fashion magazines, which depicts the female corpse in …
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… mind that of an act of sexual intercourse with a corpse, probably a female corpse at that. But the definition of the word did not always have this connotation; quite literally the word means "love of the dead," or "a morbid attraction to death." An examination of nineteenth-century literature …
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
… and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti engages the female corpse tradition to illustrate the misplaced fear that many of her contemporaries associated with death and the afterlife. While arguing for a renewed faith in God, Rossetti enacts a radical revision of the female corpse tradition that gives …