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  1. How to do things with dead people
    history, technology, and temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca ; London

    "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... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    "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."--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781501763656; 1501763652
    RVK Categories: HI 3385 ; HI 3390 ; HI 3451
    Subjects: Zeit <Motiv>; Historisches Drama; Tod <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Criticism and interpretation; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Plays / Selections / History and criticism; Death in literature; Time in literature; Literature and technology; Mort dans la littérature; Temps dans la littérature; Littérature et technologie; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Plays (Shakespeare, William); Death in literature; Literature and technology; Time in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: xv, 246 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Introduction: The luminous spiral and the cigarette box: technologies of the afterdeath -- Little, little graves: Shakespeare's photographs of Richard II -- Haunted histories: dramatic double exposure in Henry IV, parts one and two -- Dummies and doppelgängers: performing for the dead in 1 Henry VI -- The king machine: reproducing sovereignty in 3 Henry VI -- Fuck off and die: the queercrip reign of Richard III -- Postscript: Lazarus again

  2. Time and identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  University Press of Florida, Gainesville

    "A unique in-depth comparative study of two classic literary works, this volume examines essential themes in James Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey, showing how each work highlights and clarifies aspects of the other" more

     

    "A unique in-depth comparative study of two classic literary works, this volume examines essential themes in James Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey, showing how each work highlights and clarifies aspects of the other"

     

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  3. How to do things with dead people
    history, technology, and temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca ; London

    "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... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    "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."--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781501763656; 1501763652
    RVK Categories: HI 3385 ; HI 3390 ; HI 3451
    Subjects: Zeit <Motiv>; Historisches Drama; Tod <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Criticism and interpretation; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Plays / Selections / History and criticism; Death in literature; Time in literature; Literature and technology; Mort dans la littérature; Temps dans la littérature; Littérature et technologie; Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616; Plays (Shakespeare, William); Death in literature; Literature and technology; Time in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: xv, 246 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Introduction: The luminous spiral and the cigarette box: technologies of the afterdeath -- Little, little graves: Shakespeare's photographs of Richard II -- Haunted histories: dramatic double exposure in Henry IV, parts one and two -- Dummies and doppelgängers: performing for the dead in 1 Henry VI -- The king machine: reproducing sovereignty in 3 Henry VI -- Fuck off and die: the queercrip reign of Richard III -- Postscript: Lazarus again