How to Do Things with Dead People by Alice Dailey (Paperback Book)

Name: How to Do Things with Dead People by Alice Dailey (Paperback Book)
Brand: Cornell University Press

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How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are regenerated in the present and re-killed. Considering the plays in these terms exposes their affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things\u2014technologies such as literary doppelg\u00E4ngers, photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, glitch art, capital punishment machines, and cloning. \n By situating Shakespeare's historical drama in this intermedial conversation, Dailey challenges conventional assumptions about what constitutes\n\nHow to Do Things with Dead People\nHistory, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK deli;