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  • Mother of Stories

    An Elegy

    by Alice Dailey ...
    In a breathtaking blend of lyrical memoir, photographs, and textual artifacts, Mother of Stories examines the complex legacy of a mother who was a gifted teacher, a passionate reader, and a pathological liar.While Alice Dailey was immersed in an academic study of death in Shakespeare’s history plays, her mother died from toxic exposure to mold. Composed in a fugue of grief, Mother of Stories is ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • How to Do Things with Dead People

    History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol

    by Alice Dailey ...
    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

    by M.G. Aune, Bruce E. Brandt, Douglas Bruster, Sheila T. Cavanagh, Alice Dailey, Silver Damsen, Laurie Ellinghausen, Laura Grace Godwin, Anne F. Gossage, Peter H. Greenfield, Jay L. Halio, Peter C. Herman, James Hirsch, Shawn Kairschner, Wesley Kisting, Cynthia Lewis, Todd M. Lidh, Laury Magnus, Robert Matz, Michael McClintock, Joseph M. Ortiz, Margaret Maurer, Meg F. Pearson, Joseph Ricke, Edward L. Rocklin, James M. Welsh ...
    Series Book 123 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing arts, and in scholarship. The result is a volume that offers practical advice to teachers on editions ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Best American Essays 2013

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  • The Muses on Their Lunch Hour

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    "Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher education today." — Publishers WeeklyAs a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour today? This collection of essays uses these figures of ancient legend to explore such modern-day topics as the curious return of myth and ritual ... Read more

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