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Popular Culture
1. 
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
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1.
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
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1.
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
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2. 
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction's unique transformative nature and continuity with other storytelling traditions.
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| Paper | 2017 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Fanfiction Reader" to Cart |
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2.
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction's unique transformative nature and continuity with other storytelling traditions.
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| Paper | 2017 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Fanfiction Reader" to Cart |
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2.
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction’s unique transformative nature and continuity with other storytelling traditions
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| Paper | 2017 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Fanfiction Reader" to Cart |
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3. 
The Economy of Colonial Desire
Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative
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| Paper | 2011 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Effeminism" to Cart |
4. 
A provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Law's Madness" to Cart |
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4.
A provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes
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| Paper | 2006 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Law's Madness" to Cart |
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| Paper | 2004 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Jewish in America" to Cart |
6. 
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists
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| Paper | 2004 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gates of Freedom" to Cart |
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6.
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists
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| Paper | 2004 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gates of Freedom" to Cart |
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7. 
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
Explores testimonial writing as it advances a provocative new theory of culture, trauma, genre, and denial
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Untimely Interventions" to Cart |
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7.
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
Explores testimonial writing as it advances a provocative new theory of culture, trauma, genre, and denial
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Untimely Interventions" to Cart |
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8. 
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture
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| Paper | 2004 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The DNA Mystique" to Cart |
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8.
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The DNA Mystique" to Cart |
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9. 
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Explores the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and the politics of theater in colonial and postcolonial India
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| Hardcover | 2004 | $75.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance" to Cart |
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9.
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Explores the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and the politics of theater in colonial and postcolonial India
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| Hardcover | 2004 | $75.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance" to Cart |
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10. 
Essays on Literature and Culture
Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists
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| Paper | 2004 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Imagining Adoption" to Cart |
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10.
Essays on Literature and Culture
Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists
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| Paper | 2004 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Imagining Adoption" to Cart |
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11. 
This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates
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| Paper | 2003 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Secret Spaces of Childhood" to Cart |
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11.
This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates
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| Paper | 2003 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Secret Spaces of Childhood" to Cart |
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12. 
Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
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| Paper | 2003 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Stage Life of Props" to Cart |
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12.
Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
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| Paper | 2003 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Stage Life of Props" to Cart |
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13. 
Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century
Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks--this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques
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| Paper | 2003 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Lewd and Notorious" to Cart |
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13.
Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century
Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks--this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques
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| Paper | 2003 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Lewd and Notorious" to Cart |
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14. 
Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire
Offers insight into the relationship between knowledge and power in ancient times--and science and politics in our own
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| Paper | 2002 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Power and Knowledge" to Cart |
15. 
Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein
How modernist writers experienced the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History-and how these museums influenced their writing
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| Hardcover | 2002 | $85.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Poetry in the Museums of Modernism" to Cart |
16. 
Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life
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16.
Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life
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17. 
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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17.
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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17.
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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18. 
Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures"
A welcome intervention in the science vs. humanities debate
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| Paper | 2002 | $36.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Knowable and the Unknowable" to Cart |
19. 
A moving and genre-defying text, written after a great loss, that blurs the boundaries between writing and performance
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| Paper | 2001 | $33.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Infinity (Stage)" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $83.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Infinity (Stage)" to Cart |
19.
A moving and genre-defying text, written after a great loss, that blurs the boundaries between writing and performance
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $33.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Infinity (Stage)" to Cart |
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20. 
The Artist's (Auto)biography
The intimate biography of French painter Rosa Bonheur by her companion Anna Klumpke
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| Paper | 2001 | $33.95 | Out of Stock | Add Paper for "Rosa Bonheur" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1998 | $75.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Rosa Bonheur" to Cart |
20.
The Artist's (Auto)biography
The intimate biography of French painter Rosa Bonheur by her companion Anna Klumpke
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| Paper | 2001 | $33.95 | Out of Stock | Add Paper for "Rosa Bonheur" to Cart |
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21. 
International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance
International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world
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| Paper | 2001 | $39.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Performing Democracy" to Cart |
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21.
International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance
International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world
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22. 
AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading
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| Paper | 2001 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Facing It" to Cart |
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22.
AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading
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| Paper | 2001 | $21.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Facing It" to Cart |
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23. 
Genealogies of Modernity
A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments
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Genealogies of Modernity
A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments
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24. 
Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890
Uncovers the roots of Americans' construction of the "Orient" by examining the work of nineteenth-century authors
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| Paper | 2001 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "U.S. Orientalisms" to Cart |
25. 
Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars
A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots
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| Paper | 2000 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Class, Critics, and Shakespeare" to Cart |
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25.
Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars
A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots
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