Citation and precedent : conjunctions and disjunctions of German law and literature / Thomas O. Beebee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beebee, Thomas O., author.

Series:

New directions in German studies ; v. 3.

New directions in German studies ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

German literature.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Intertextuality.

Law and literature--Germany.

Law and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars. Yet this list only hints at the complex interactions between German law and literature. It can be supplemented, for example, with the unique interventions of the legal system into literature, ranging from attempts to save literature from the tidal wave of Schund (pulp fiction) in the early twentieth century to audiences suing theaters over the improper production of classics in the twenty-first. The long list of instances where German literature cites law, or where German law serves literature as a precedent, signal the dream of German culture of a unity of interests and objectives between spheres of activity. Yet the very vitality of this dream stems from real historical and social processes that increasingly autonomize and separate these domains from each other. Beebee examines the history of this dialectical tension through close readings of numerous cases in the modern era, ranging from Grimm to Schmitt."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Subsystem or public sphere?

In search of the invisible precedent : Grimm writes to Savigny

Kant, codification, and Goethe's elective affinities

A recursive process : Kafka's law

and ours

Walter Benjamin reads the Weimar Constitution

From Schiller to Schund : Zensur and the canonization of literature

German literature fights for its rights : a thick description of an incident of Weimar literary culture

Carl Schmitt and/as Benito Cereno

Citation as second-order observation : Peter Weiss's The investigation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613380258

9781441169372

1441169377

9781628926842

1628926848

9781283380256

1283380250

9781441155801

1441155805

OCLC:

769344397