"In 2017, while Alice Dailey was writing a scholarly book on death in Shakespeare's history plays, her mother died from a toxic exposure to mold. She had been a teacher of English and History, an avid reader, and a pathological liar. Mother of Stories: An Elegy is Dailey's spare, uncompromising account of the months before and after her mother's death, an account shaped by a career studying poetics of the dead. Through lyrical memoir, photographs, archival documents, artwork, and remixes of theory and scholarly writing, ...
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"In 2017, while Alice Dailey was writing a scholarly book on death in Shakespeare's history plays, her mother died from a toxic exposure to mold. She had been a teacher of English and History, an avid reader, and a pathological liar. Mother of Stories: An Elegy is Dailey's spare, uncompromising account of the months before and after her mother's death, an account shaped by a career studying poetics of the dead. Through lyrical memoir, photographs, archival documents, artwork, and remixes of theory and scholarly writing, Mother of Stories confronts a violent family mythos in varied forms of narrative and imagistic reproduction, contesting borders between lived, imaginary, and literary experience. Densely imbricated with literary and religious motifs, the book performs a repertoire of mourning acts that resist and antagonize the coherence of story. The consciousness of the grieving literary critic emerges here not as an authoritative interpreter of stories but as a hybrid, richly imaginative formation that synthesizes the past and the present, the counterfeit, literary, and real. In constructing a poetic assemblage reminiscent at once of medieval miscellanies and contemporary experimental autotheory, Dailey's acts of rehearsing, cutting, and folding history generate forms of radical critique that puncture and reconstitute the limits of literary/critical nonfiction"--
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