L'Inconnue de la Seine. Between Early and Late Modernity (1898-2002): Text, Image, Crossings
My thesis is entitled L'Inconnue de la Seine. Between Early and Late Modernity (1898-2002): Text, Image, Crossings. I examine the cultural meanings invested in a death ask known as the 'Inconnue de la Seine'. This mask, of a young woman thought to have drowned herself in the Seine at...
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University of Oxford
2008
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| Summary: | My thesis is entitled L'Inconnue de la Seine. Between Early and Late Modernity (1898-2002): Text, Image, Crossings. I examine the cultural meanings invested in a death ask known as the 'Inconnue de la Seine'. This mask, of a young woman thought to have drowned herself in the Seine at the close of the nineteenth century, has fired the imagination of artists for over a century. |
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