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1. Cover image for 'The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture'
The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
Dina Khapaeva
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
 

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The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
Dina Khapaeva
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2. Cover image for 'The Fanfiction Reader'
The Fanfiction Reader
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
Francesca Coppa
The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction's unique transformative nature and continuity with other storytelling traditions.

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The Fanfiction Reader
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
Francesca Coppa
The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction's unique transformative nature and continuity with other storytelling traditions.

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The Fanfiction Reader
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
Francesca Coppa
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Effeminism
The Economy of Colonial Desire
Revathi Krishnaswamy
Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative
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4. Cover image for 'Law's Madness'
Law's Madness
Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, Editors
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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Law's Madness
Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, Editors
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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5. Cover image for 'Jewish in America'
Jewish in America
Sara Blair and Jonathan Freedman, Editors
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Paper 2004 $29.95 Available Add Paper for "Jewish in America" to Cart
6. Cover image for 'Gates of Freedom'
Gates of Freedom
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Eugenia C. DeLamotte
Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists
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Gates of Freedom
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Eugenia C. DeLamotte
Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists
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7. Cover image for 'Untimely Interventions'
Untimely Interventions
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
Ross Chambers
Explores testimonial writing as it advances a provocative new theory of culture, trauma, genre, and denial
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Untimely Interventions
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
Ross Chambers
Explores testimonial writing as it advances a provocative new theory of culture, trauma, genre, and denial
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8. Cover image for 'The DNA Mystique'
The DNA Mystique
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee
Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture
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The DNA Mystique
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee
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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9. Cover image for 'Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance'
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Nandi Bhatia
Explores the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and the politics of theater in colonial and postcolonial India
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Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Nandi Bhatia
Explores the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and the politics of theater in colonial and postcolonial India
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10. Cover image for 'Imagining Adoption'
Imagining Adoption
Essays on Literature and Culture
Marianne Novy, Editor
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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Imagining Adoption
Essays on Literature and Culture
Marianne Novy, Editor
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. Cover image for 'Secret Spaces of Childhood'
Secret Spaces of Childhood
Elizabeth Goodenough, Editor
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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Secret Spaces of Childhood
Elizabeth Goodenough, Editor
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. Cover image for 'The Stage Life of Props'
The Stage Life of Props
Andrew Sofer
Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
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The Stage Life of Props
Andrew Sofer
Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
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13. Cover image for 'Lewd and Notorious'
Lewd and Notorious
Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century
Katharine Kittredge, Editor
Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks--this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques
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Lewd and Notorious
Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century
Katharine Kittredge, Editor
Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks--this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques
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14. Cover image for 'Power and Knowledge'
Power and Knowledge
Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire
Tamsyn S. Barton
Offers insight into the relationship between knowledge and power in ancient times--and science and politics in our own
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15. Cover image for 'Poetry in the Museums of Modernism'
Poetry in the Museums of Modernism
Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein
Catherine Paul
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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16. Cover image for 'Agitated States'
Agitated States
Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
Anthony Kubiak
American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life
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Agitated States
Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
Anthony Kubiak
American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life
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17. Cover image for 'Imagining Wild America'
Imagining Wild America
John Knott
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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Imagining Wild America
John Knott
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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Imagining Wild America
John Knott
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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18. Cover image for 'The Knowable and the Unknowable'
The Knowable and the Unknowable
Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures"
Arkady Plotnitsky
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. Cover image for 'Infinity (Stage)'
Infinity (Stage)
Spencer Golub
A moving and genre-defying text, written after a great loss, that blurs the boundaries between writing and performance
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Hardcover 1999 $83.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Infinity (Stage)" to Cart
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Infinity (Stage)
Spencer Golub
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
20. Cover image for 'Rosa Bonheur'
Rosa Bonheur
The Artist's (Auto)biography
Anna Klumpke
The intimate biography of French painter Rosa Bonheur by her companion Anna Klumpke
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Hardcover 1998 $75.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Rosa Bonheur" to Cart
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Rosa Bonheur
The Artist's (Auto)biography
Anna Klumpke
The intimate biography of French painter Rosa Bonheur by her companion Anna Klumpke
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Hardcover 1998 $75.00 Available Add Hardcover for "Rosa Bonheur" to Cart
21. Cover image for 'Performing Democracy'
Performing Democracy
International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance
Susan C. Haedicke and Tobin Nellhaus, Editors
International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world
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Performing Democracy
International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance
Susan C. Haedicke and Tobin Nellhaus, Editors
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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22. Cover image for 'Facing It'
Facing It
AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Ross Chambers
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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Facing It
AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Ross Chambers
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. Cover image for 'The Culture of the Body'
The Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Dalia Judovitz
A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments
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The Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Dalia Judovitz
A cultural history of the evolution of the modern body, as glimpsed at six critical moments
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24. Cover image for 'U.S. Orientalisms'
U.S. Orientalisms
Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890
Malini Johar Schueller
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. Cover image for 'Class, Critics, and Shakespeare'
Class, Critics, and Shakespeare
Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars
Sharon O'Dair
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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Class, Critics, and Shakespeare
Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars
Sharon O'Dair
A challenging critique of academic culture and its blindspots
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