Signature

Dr. Hunter Dukes (Junior Research Fellow, Tempere University, Finland)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic USA
03 December 2020

Palaeography (history of writing); Literary theory; Philosophy: aesthetics; Cultural studies

Series: Object Lessons

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 English pub, from a wedding in Moscow, where guests sign the bride’s body, to a San Franciscan tattoo parlor interested in arcane forms.

The signature’s history encompasses ancient handprints on cave walls, autograph hunters, the branding of slaves, metaphysical poetry, medical malpractice, hip-hop lyrics, legal challenges to electronic signatures, ice cores harvested from Greenland, and tales of forgery and autopens.

Part cultural chronicle, part travelogue, Signature pursues the identifying marks made by people, animals, and planetary forces, revealing the stories and fantasies hidden in their signatures.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

By: Dr. Hunter Dukes (Junior Research Fellow Tempere University Finland)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 121mm,
Weight: 176g
ISBN: 9781501353345
ISBN 10: 1501353349
Series: Object Lessons
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 03 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hunter Dukes is Lecturer of English Literature at Tampere University, Finland, and a former Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.

Reviews for Signature

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 *