Symbolism 21 : : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics / / ed. by Florian Klaeger, Klaus Stierstorfer, Marlena Tronicke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Ahrens, Rüdiger,; Apolloni, Jessica,; Auguscik, Anna,; Christ, Birte,; Gruss, Susanne,; Heinz, Sarah,; Hess, Linda,; Jain, Jayana,; Karschay, Stephan,; Leroy, Elisa,; Liedke, Heidi Lucja,; Mueller, Stefanie,; Norrick-Rühl, Corinna,; Peralta, Camilo,; Quabeck, Franziska,; Schmitz, Markus,; Tronicke, Marlena,; Yang, Dong,
• HerausgeberIn: Klaeger, Florian,; Stierstorfer, Klaus,; Tronicke, Marlena,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 294 p.)

Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all approach the subject from the perspective of literary and book studies, foregrounding literature’s potential to act as supplementary to a very wide variety of laws spread over historical, geographical, cultural and spatial grounds. The theoretical ground laid here thus posits both literature and law in the narrow sense. The articles gathered in this special issue analyse Anglophone literatures from the Renaissance to the present day and cover the three major genres, narrative, drama and poetry. The contributions address questions of the law’s psychoanalytic subconscious, copyright and censorship, literary negotiations of colonial and post-colonial territorial laws, the European ‘refugee debate’ and migration narratives, fictional debates on climate change, contemporary feminist drama and classic 19th-century legal narratives. This volume includes two insightful analyses of poetic texts with a special focus on the fact that poetry has often been neglected within the field of law and literature research. Special Focus editor: Franziska Quabeck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword from the Editors -- Contents -- Special Focus: Law and Literature -- Introduction: Symbolism, Law and Literature -- Reading the Unconscious of the Law: From Psychoanalytical Legal Theory to Early Modern Law and Literature -- Contracts, Clauses, Controversy: John Hersey, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Reader’s Digest Condensed Books -- Decadent Echoes, the Language of Censorship and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness -- “Stay on Country”: The Indigenous Australian Challenge to White Property, Terra Nullius, and Native Title in Tara June Winch’s The Yield -- Legal and Poetic Figurations of Wholeness in from unincorporated territory and the Insular Cases -- ‘the real feel of hard time’: Lyrico-Carceral Temporalities in C.D. Wright’s One Big Self: An Investigation (2007) -- “I Have Shown You Milk”: Performing Legal Truths in Nina Raine’s Consent and Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin -- Law on Ice: Polarizing Legal Expertise in Popular Climate Change Fiction -- The Fiction of Justice: Human Smuggling in European Law and Middle Eastern Refugee Narratives -- In Defense of Mr Micawber: Symbolic Equity in Dickens -- General Section -- Tolkien’s Dragons: Sources, Symbols, and Significance -- Suspending the Assemblage: Todd Haynes’ Safe (1995) and the Return of the Self -- Book Reviews -- Stephanie Elsky. Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature -- Siobhan Somerville, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies -- Shazia Rahman. Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism: Pakistani Women’s Literary and Cinematic Fictions -- Amy Cook. Shakespearean Futures: Casting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare’s Stages Today -- Marisa Palacios Knox. Victorian Women and Wayward Reading: Crises of Identification -- List of Contributors -- Index