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A lyrical, breathtaking exploration of the chaos and multiplicity that underlie imposed conventions of order

An exploration of law's place in everyday life and the influence of everyday life on the law. Contributors include David Engel, Hendrik Hartog, Thomas R. Kearns, David Kennedy, Catharine MacKinnon, George Marcus, Austin Sarat, and Patricia Williams.

Presents epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian.

A collection of essays which celebrate the liberatory and utopian possibilities that poetry's autonomy offers.

Dismantles the fundamental workings of Realism and exposes its intrinsic flaws. This book demonstrates that any understanding of international politics must be part of the more general study of the relationship between political order and organized violence - as it was in the intellectual tradition from which modern-day Realism was derived.

Recount the ways in which this drama - ""Gender in Transition"" - played out in German-speaking Europe during the transitional period from 1750 to 1830. This work examines the effects of gender in numerous realms of German life, including law, urban politics, marriage, religion, literature, natural science, fashion, and personal relationships.

Considers the many ways in which autobiographical selves emerged from the late medieval period through the seventeenth century, with the aim of understanding the interaction between those individuals' lives and their worlds, the ways in which they could be recorded, and the contexts in which they are read.

About reading poetry with an awareness of class and its themes. This book features nine essays, which deal with the question of class as reflected in the works of Tracie Morris, Tillie Olsen, Melvin Tolson, William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, and others.

Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?'

Editors Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson have been at the vanguard of the study of women's self-representation, and here have collected leading critics' and scholars' thoughts on artistic fusions of the visual and autobiographical. Contributors offer new insights into the work of such artists as Laurie Anderson, Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo, and Orlan.

An intriguing historical examination of China's widespread opium epidemic

One site. Thirty battles over four thousand years. Egyptians, Crusaders, Mongols, Israelis

London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s--as seen through the eyes of a former slave

Brings together C.K. Williams' meditations on psychology, an epistemology of poems, considerations of poetry and its relations to history and to the novel, exploring the causes and consequences of that fruitful breakdown of language the author calls ""narrative dysfunction"".

Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets

In this pioneering work, Paul Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show that the gradual shift from Materialist values (such as the desire for economic and physical security) to Post-materialist values (such as the desire for freedom, self-expression, and the quality of life) is in all likelihood a global phenomenon.