Images of the corpse
Subtitle: from the Renaissance to cyberspace
By: edited by Elizabeth Klaver.
Contributors: Klaver, Elizabeth.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Dead in art; Dead in literature; Arts, European
Notes: "A Ray and Pat Browne book."

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