NECROPHELIA AND THE STRANGE CASE OF AFTERLIFE
Drawing on Allan Edgar Poe’s provocative statement that “The death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world” (1951: 369), I will focus on the pivotal role of Shakespeare’s Ophelia in attesting to this assertion. Ophelia’s drowning is probably the most recogniza...
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| Language: | English |
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2013-12-01
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| Series: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2013-0010 |