Power and Legitimacy : : Law, Culture, and Literature /

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

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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 effe...

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Quéma, Anne,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2015
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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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

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