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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Table of Contents:
  • 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