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How to Do Things with Dead People : History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol /

"This book studies Shakespeare's English history plays, contextualizing them among reproductive mechanisms and representational media spanning several centuries. It explores the plays' affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dailey, Alice (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This book studies Shakespeare's English history plays, contextualizing them among reproductive mechanisms and representational media spanning several centuries. It explores the plays' affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things-technologies like photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, capital punishment machines, and cloning."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations (black and white, and colour) ;
ISBN:9781501763670