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Butterfly, the bride : essays on law, narrative, and the family / Carol Weisbrod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weisbrod, Carol.
- Series:
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law and literature.
- Long, John Luther, 1861-1927. Madame Butterfly.
- Long, John Luther.
- Loti, Pierre, 1850-1923. Madame Chrysanthème.
- Loti, Pierre.
- Legal stories--History and criticism.
- Legal stories.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Families in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Domestic relations.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1999.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Carol Weisbrod uses a variety of stories to raise important questions about how society, through law, defines relationships in the family. Beginning with a story most familiar from the opera Madame Butterfly, Weisbrod addresses issues such as marriage, divorce, parent-child relations and abuses, and nonmarital intimate contacts. Each chapter works with fiction or narratives inspired by biography or myth, ranging from the Book of Esther to the stories of Kafka. Weisbrod unites the book with running commentary on variations of the Madame Butterfly story, showing the ways in which fiction better expresses the complexities of intimate lives than does the crude, simple language of the law. Butterfly, the Bride looks at law from the outside, using narrative to provide a fresh perspective on the issues of law and social structure -- and individual responses to law. This book thoroughly explores relationships between inner and public lives by examining what is ordinarily classified as the sphere of private life -- the world of family relationships.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The bride
- The couple
- Contracts
- The family
- Children
- Law
- Breaking the butterfly
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-231) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0472109219
- 9780472022847
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.15553
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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