Signature
$22.26
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2020
Summary
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness—as if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify our signing practices?
Signature addresses these questions as it roams from a roundtable on the Greek island of Syros, to a scene of handwriting analysis conducted in an …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501353345 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501353349 |
| Author: | Dr. Hunter Dukes |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 118mm x 165mm |
| Series: | Object Lessons |
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Critics Review
This is a true ‘essay film’ of a book, with multiple associative bridges flying out from its topic, into the air of pure insight. I’m thrilled to add my name to its covers.
This is a true ‘essay film’ of a book, with multiple associative bridges flying out from its topic, into the air of pure insight. I’m thrilled to add my name to its covers. * Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude *
Dr. Hunter Dukes
Hunter Dukes is Lecturer of English Literature at Tampere University, Finland, and a former Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.
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