1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140445403321

Autore

Snediker Michael D.

Titolo

The apartment of tragic appliances / / Michael D. Snediker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2013

[Brooklyn, New York] : , : Punctum Books, , 2013

©2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (69 pages) : 1 illustration; digital file(s)

Disciplina

811

Soggetti

Poetry

Popular culture - Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 2013 by Peanut Books, a literary offshoot of punctum books, Brooklyn, NY"--title page verso.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, named as a finalist for a 2013 Lambda Literary Award, is a literal place in which a hapless, portable dishwasher "heats residue only to reimagine cleanliness as an art project," a recalcitrant microwave neglects to heat, and a refrigerator dies an inconvenient, bulky death. It is also that psychic space in which we consider our loneliness, our wandering hearts, our unpacked boxes, our vulgar desires.In Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (Minnesota, 2007), Michael Snediker worked "in the interests of felicity" to undermine the ways in which queer theory customarily privileges shame and melancholy. Here, in his first full-length collection of poetry, he undertakes a similar upending of expectation, acknowledging "gay sadness" but refusing to fall fully under its sway. The demi-tragedies of daily life are recounted by a voice that is variously wistful, giddy, bawdy, silly, and tart. Along the way, Michael Snediker sets off an impressive pyrotechnic display of literary allusion, drawing on the superstars of the Western canon (think: Virgil, Racine, Proust, James, Wharton, Tennessee Williams) and of popular culture (Lucille Ball, John Travolta, Alex Trebek).Buyer beware:



In these pages you will not find advice on how to feng shui your duplex or tame a Cuisinart run amok. Instead, you will find something far rarer: a book of poetic sustenance. As Daniel Tiffany observes, "We have been missing poems like these for a long time.”

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00105773

Autore

RABIN, Chaim

Titolo

Ancient West-Arabian : A study of the dialects of the Western Highlands of Arabia in the sixth and seventh centuries A. D. / Chaim Rabin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Taylor, 1951

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 226 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

492.77

Soggetti

DIALETTI ARABI

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959219903321

Autore

Bryden Alan

Titolo

International law, politics and inhumane weapons : the effectiveness of global landmine regimes / / Alan Bryden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-21996-X

1-283-60640-2

9786613918857

1-136-21997-8

0-203-09680-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Law, conflict and international relations

Disciplina

341.7/3

341.73

Soggetti

Humanitarian law

Land mines (International law)

Mines (Military explosives) (International law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

International Law, Politics and Inhumane Weapons The effectiveness of global landmine regimes; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 The design, implementation and effectiveness of global landmine regimes; 2 Regimes prohibiting the use in war of poison gas and dum dum bullets; 3 The emergence of the landmine regimes; 4 Implementing the landmine regimes; 5 Humanitarian demining; 6 Stockpile destruction; 7 The effectiveness of global landmine regimes; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book contributes to contemporary debates on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating or prohibiting inhumane weapons, such as landmines.Two treaties have emerged under IHL in response to the humanitarian scourge of landmines. However, despite a considerable body of related literature, clear understandings have not been established on the effectiveness of these international legal frameworks in meeting the challenges that prompted



their creation. This book seeks to address this lacuna. An analytical framework grounded in regime theory helps m