Liminal Discourses : : Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature / / ed. by Daniela Carpi, Jeanne Gaakeer.

The past few decades in legal and literary studies have challenged the boundaries raised by the different concepts of law and literature espoused by a great variety of theorists. Law's traditionally assumed disciplinary autonomy has been challenged by those who have pursued interdisciplinary me...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Law & Literature , 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (189 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
Introduction 1: The Sublime of Law --
Introduction 2: On the Threshold and Beyond: An Introductory Observation --
Representing Law: Narrative Practices, Poetic Devices, Visual Signs and the Aesthetics of the Common Law Mind --
Bare Law between Two Lives: José Saramago and Cornelia Vismann on Naming, Filing and Cancelling --
Liminal Tensions in Public to Private Conceptions of Justice: Nussbaum, Woolf and the Struggle for Identity --
“Under the Force of the Law”: Communal Imagination and the Constitutional Sublime in Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor --
Moll Flanders, Ordinary’s Accounts and Old Bailey Proceedings --
Ariel and Caliban as Law-conscious Servants Longing for Legal Personhood --
Altered Bodies, Fragmented Selves: Reconstructing the Subject in Fay Weldon’s The Cloning of Joanna May --
The Business of Law and Literature: to Compose an Order, to Imagine Man --
Renaissance into Postmodernism: Anticipations of Legal Unrest
Summary:The past few decades in legal and literary studies have challenged the boundaries raised by the different concepts of law and literature espoused by a great variety of theorists. Law's traditionally assumed disciplinary autonomy has been challenged by those who have pursued interdisciplinary methods of research. In particular, the concept of the sublime has moved out of the strictly philosophical and literary fields and crossed the borders between disciplines, finding an application also in the juridical field. On one hand, this volume proposes that the ethical aspect involved in the legal sublime is to contain the arrogance of the law. On the other hand, the volume draws attention to the "and" of interdisciplinary literary-legal studies and offers new daring comparisons between philosophical fields and between apparently distant historical periods.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110301137
9783110238570
9783110238464
9783110637854
9783110317350
9783110317268
9783110317251
ISSN:2191-8457 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110301137
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Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Daniela Carpi, Jeanne Gaakeer.