Power and Legitimacy : : Law, Culture, and Literature / / Anne Quéma.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• VerfasserIn: Quéma, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

An interdisciplinary analysis of the ways in which symbolic acts create social norms, Power and Legitimacy is an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship on law and literature. Drawing on the theoretical insights of Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Anne Quéma demonstrates the effect of symbolic violence on the creation of social and political legitimacy.Examining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family within the modern Gothic novel, Quéma shows how the forms and effects of political power transform as one shifts from discourse to discourse. An impressive integration of the scholarship in these three fields, Power and Legitimacy is a thought-provoking analysis of the basis of power and the law.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Symbolic Power and Legitimacy -- Chapter Two. Social Poiesis and Symbolic Power -- Chapter Three. Law's Symbolic Power to Legitimize -- Chapter Four. Symbolic Violence and Illegitimacy: The Political Uncanny -- Chapter Five. The Symbolic Power and Violence of Legal Utterances -- Chapter Six. The Legitimacy of the Family: Family Law and Gothic Fiction -- Chapter Seven. The Political Uncanny of the Family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and the Civil Partnership Act 2004 -- Chapter Nine. Resistance and Legitimacy -- Chapter Ten. Making the Law -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index