From law and literature to legality and affect : / Greta Olson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Greta, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and literature.

Law in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022

Summary:

From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect represents a sustained argument for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. It argues that the traditional methods of Law and Literature can be combined with work in critical media studies, affect theory, and cultural narratology to address topics such as ethnonationalism, anti-immigration sentiments, and systemic racism in nations like Germany and the United States. Taking stock of the pluralization and diversification of the field at 50 years from a comparative standpoint, the book understands Law and Literature as a political project. This has a precedence in inaugural Law and Literature texts like Jacob Grimm's Von der Poesie im Recht (On the Poetry in Law) from 1815/16, which imagines an alternative legal order grounded in the unity of law, poetic language, and feeling. The political thrust of Law and Literature continues up into the present with the arts of BlackLivesMatter documenting and resisting police violence against Black people. Law and Literature offers keys for understanding how legal identities are constructed, for analyzing how legal texts are formally constructed, and for comprehending how cultural-legal issues are mediated using affective means. Using cultural, medial, affect theoretical and narrative analyses of law, a revitalized Law and Literature offers a set of methods and theories with which to address the most pressing current issues.

Contents:

Introduction Expanding the Scope of Law and Literature - Unpacking Cultural-Legal Issues

I The Pluralization of Law and Literature

II Law Has Gone Pop

III The Turn to Passion in Law and Literature

IV Law and Literature as Legal Pluralism

V Why Should We Care about the Future of Law and Literature?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780192670922

0192670921

9780191947452

0191947458

9780192670915

0192670913

OCLC:

1336402214