Contents open-access

Introduction: Towards a Legal Poetics open-access

Birte Christ, Stefanie Mueller

Seite 149 - 168

Savage Properties and Violent Forms open-access

Christopher Brooke’s ‚Poem on the Late Massacre in Virginia‘ (1622) and the Discourse on Civility and Possession in Early Modern America

Peter Schneck

Seite 169 - 190

Sidney Lanier, the Language of Paradox, and Staging Contradictory Political Ideals in the Battle for Civil Rights and the War against Terrorism during the Era of Reconstruction open-access

Brook Thomas

Seite 191 - 211

Poet and Reader in the Witness Box open-access

Society on Trial in Muriel Rukeyser’s Early Poetry

Christa Buschendorf

Seite 213 - 234

Poetry, Negative Capability, and the Law open-access

James Wright’s “A Poem about George Doty in the Death House” and “At the Executed Murderer’s Grave”

Michael Stanford

Seite 235 - 255

Figuring Human Rights and Troping Law and Literature open-access

Li-Young Lee’s Poetic Investigations of Migration and Refugeeism

Greta Olson

Seite 257 - 278

State Killing and the Poetic Series open-access

George Elliott Clarke’s ‘Execution Poems’ and Jill McDonough’s ‘Habeas Corpus’

Birte Christ

Seite 279 - 300

Exceeding Determinacy in the Language of Personhood open-access

‘Citizens United’, Corporations, and the Poetry of Timothy Donnelly and Thomas Sayers Ellis

Stefanie Mueller

Seite 301 - 322

Three Poems open-access

Lawrence Joseph

Seite 323 - 330

Reviews open-access

Margit Peterfy, Philipp Reisner, Simone Knewitz, Astrid Franke, Timo Müller, Benjamin Fisher, James Nagel, Robert Clark, Reingard M. Nischik

Seite 331

Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2016 open-access

Abby Russell, Ana Elisa Gomez Laris

Seite 333 - 390