Law and literature / by María José Falcón y Tella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falcón y Tella, María José, author.

Standardized Title:

Derecho y literatura. English.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Law and literature.

Law in literature.

Intellectual property in literature.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

xiv, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, [2016]

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

María José Falcón y Tella invites us on a fascinating journey through the world of law and literature, travelling through the different eras and meeting eternal and as such current issues such as justice, power, resistance, vengeance, rights, and duties. This is an unending conversation, which brings us back to Sophocles and Dickens, Cervantes and Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Melville, among many others. 0There are many ways to approach the concept of ?Law and Literature?. In the classical manner, the author distinguishes three paths: the Law of Literature, involving a technical approach to the literary theme; Law as Literature, a hermeneutical and rhetorical approach to examining legal texts; and finally, Law in Literature, which is undoubtedly the most fertile and documented perspective (the fundamental part of the work, accorded more time than the others, lies in this direction). This volume offers an introduction to this enormous field of study, which was born in the United States over a century ago and is currently taking root in the European continent.

Contents:

Chapter I Introduction 1

Chapter II The Law "of" Literature 4

1 Matters of private law: author's rights and intellectual property. Copyright 4

2 Matters of criminal law 8

2.1 The (im)morality of literature. Censorship. Pornography 8

2.2 Variety of press offences 14

2.2.1 Defamation. Libel 14

2.2.2 Sedition 15

2.2.3 Racism 16

3 Matters of constitutional law: freedom of expression 19

Chapter III Law "as" Literature 38

1 Introduction 38

2 Similarities between law and literature 44

3 Differences between law and literature 46

Chapter IV Literature "in" Law 51

Chapter V Law "in" Literature 52

1 Classical Antiquity 53

1.1 Ancient Greece 53

1.1.1 The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (8th Century B.C.) 53

1.1.2 Works and Days by Hesiod (700 B.C.) 57

1.1.3 The Oresteia by Aeschylus (525 B.C. - 456 B.C.) 57

1.1.4 Antigone by Sophocles (496 B.C. - 406 B.C 63

1.1.5 Electra by Euripides (480 B.C. - 406 B.C.) 69

1.1.6 Lysistrata by Aristophanes (444 B.C. - 385 B.C.) 72

1.2 The Bible 73

1.2.1 The covenant between God and His people 73

1.2.2 Justice in The Bible 75

1.2.2.1 General considerations 75

1.2.2.2 The judgment of Solomon 76

1.2.3 Between vengeance and forgiveness 77

1.2.4 Disobedience in The Bible 80

1.2.4.1 The Old Testament 80

1.2.4.2 The New Testament: Jesus Christ 83

2 The Middle Ages 91

2.1 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) 91

2.2 The Book of Good Love by Juan Vito, Arcipreste de Hita (1284-1351) 94

3 The Modern Age 100

3.1 Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) 100

3.2 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) 102

3.3 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) 106

3.4 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 108

3.4.1 King Lear 110

3.4.2 The Merchant of Venice 115

3.4.3 Hamlet 123

3.5 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) 127

4 The Contemporary Era 131

4.1 Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) 131

4.2 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) 134

4.3 The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) 137

4.4 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alejandro Dumas (1802-1870) 138

4.5 Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 139

4.5.1 Hard Times 140

4.5.2 David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers 142

4.6 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1818-1848) 144

4.7 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) 148

4.7.1 Civil Disobedience 148

4.7.2 Walden 161

4.8 Billy Budd by Herman Melville (1819-1891) 164

4.9 Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) 166

4.9.1 Crime and Punishment 167

4.9.2 The Brothers Karamazov 170

4.10 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) 172

4.11 The novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) 174

4.11.1 Treasure Island 176

4.11.2 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 179

4.12 The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (1880-1942) 183

4.13 The Trial by Franz Katka (1883-1924) 191

4.14 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) 198

4.15 George Orwell (1903-1950) 200

4.15.1 1984 200

4.15.2 Animal Farm 202

4.16 Albeit Camus (1913-1960) 206

4.16.1 The Rebel 206

4.16.2 The Stranger 209

4.17 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) 212

4.18 The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) 214

4.19 The works of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) 215

4.20 Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) 217

4.21 The Firm by John Grisham (1955-) 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-287) and index.

ISBN:

9789004304345

9004304347

OCLC:

940683027