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The aesthetics of international law / Ed Morgan.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Edward M., 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law and aesthetics.
- International law--Language.
- International law.
- Law--Language.
- Law.
- Law and literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Aesthetics of International Law, Ed Morgan engages in a literary parsing of international legal texts. In order to demonstrate how these types of legal narratives are imbued with modernist aesthetics, Morgan juxtaposes international legal documents and modern (as well as some immediately pre- and post-modern) literary texts.
- Contents:
- Edgar Allan Poe: law and terrorism
- Henrik Ibsen and Bertolt Brecht: war crimes trials
- Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot: public international law
- James Joyce: conflict of laws
- Franz Kafka: extraterritorial criminal law
- Mordecai Richler: universal jurisdiction
- Vladimir Nobokov: extradition to the death penalty
- Jorge Luis Borges: the break-up of Yugoslavia
- Thomas Pynchon: envioronmental liability
- Kurt Vonnegut: the law of war
- Conclusion: for a new scholarship
- Epilogue: pound of flesh.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-8486-0
- OCLC:
- 1013938509
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