Volume 62 (2017), Issue 2
Poetry and Law. Birte Christ and Stefanie Mueller (Guest Editors)
Contents
Contents open-access
Articles
Introduction: Towards a Legal Poetics open-access
Page 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
Page 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
Page 191 - 211
Poet and Reader in the Witness Box open-access
Society on Trial in Muriel Rukeyser’s Early Poetry
Page 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”
Page 235 - 255
Figuring Human Rights and Troping Law and Literature open-access
Li-Young Lee’s Poetic Investigations of Migration and Refugeeism
Page 257 - 278
State Killing and the Poetic Series open-access
George Elliott Clarke’s ‘Execution Poems’ and Jill McDonough’s ‘Habeas Corpus’
Page 279 - 300
Exceeding Determinacy in the Language of Personhood open-access
‘Citizens United’, Corporations, and the Poetry of Timothy Donnelly and Thomas Sayers Ellis
Page 301 - 322
Three Poems open-access
Page 323 - 330
Reviews
Reviews open-access
Page 331
Bibliography
Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2016 open-access
Page 333 - 390
