[PDF.30fd] Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern

Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern

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 | #4485457 in Books |  2000-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.90 x5.50l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 267 pages

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||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Gross but sort of brilliant|By Jim Dawson|I had nightmares for a week after I finished this book. 2 things if you want to really enjoy it: a. it helps if you know a lot of classy books and movies, starting with the Greeks, and b. it also helps if you are really interested in people getting their hands amputated. I'm OK on a. but the b. actually gives me the creeps. But I unders| |"A series of richly historicized readings which highlight multiplicity, complexity, and ironic self-questioning rather than adherence to a uniform and culturally determined version of the self." (Modern Philology)

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Dead Hands traces the fascinating career of a curious imaginative device: the wandering, disembodied, or ghostly hand. The author situates this familiar gothic convention in its richer literary and intellectual contexts, from early modern English drama through American fiction. Dexterously threading historical, theoretical, and formalist questions through readings of the plays of Shakespeare and Webster and the haunted tales of Maupassant, Le Fanu, and Twain, the ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern   |  Katherine Rowe. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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