{"product_id":"romantic-outlaws-beloved-prisons-the-unconscious-meanings-of-crime-and-punishment-0814718817-used","title":"Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons: The Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0814718817\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Duncan, Martha Grace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ex-convict struggles with his addictive yearning for prison. A law-abiding citizen broods over his pleasure in violent, illegal acts. A prison warden loses his job because he is so successful in rehabilitating criminals. These are but a few of the intriguing stories Martha Grace Duncan examines in her bold, interdisciplinary book Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons.Duncan writes: \"This is a book about paradoxes and mingled yarns - about the bright sides of dark events, the silver linings of sable clouds.\" She portrays upright citizens who harbor a strange liking for criminal deeds, and criminals who conceive of prison in positive terms: as a nurturing mother, an academy, a matrix of spiritual rebirth, or a refuge from life's trivia. In developing her unique vision, Duncan draws on literature, history, psychoanalysis, and law. Her work reveals a nonutopian world in which criminals and non-criminals--while injuring each other in obvious ways--nonetheless live together in a symbiotic as well as an adversarial relationship, needing each other, serving each other, enriching each other's lives in profound and surprising fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52341688959264,"sku":"USED0814718817","price":36.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61A8aBMUHkL_1c02da36-2359-4644-be46-499e7328dd3c.jpg?v=1789160751","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/romantic-outlaws-beloved-prisons-the-unconscious-meanings-of-crime-and-punishment-0814718817-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}