Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives / Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Battisti, Chiara, Editor.

Fiorato, Sidia, Editor.

Series:

Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; Volume 17.

Law & Literature ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and the humanities.

Law and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 582 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume investigates interdisciplinary intersections between law and the humanities from the Renaissance to the present day. It allows for fruitful encounters between different disciplines: from literature to science, from the visual arts to the post-human, from the postmodern novel’s experimentation to most recent approaches towards the legal interpretation of literary texts. This productive dialogue fosters original perspectives in the interpretation of and reflection upon identity, justice, power and human rights and values, thus underlining the role of literature in the articulation of relevant cultural issues pertaining to specific periods.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction

Shakespeare, Tragedy, Post-truth: Hamlet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra

Transfixing Shakespearean Worldliness: How Literary Texts Haunt Law and Politics

Substitution, the Counterfeit Angel and the Imprint of Law

Race, Ethnicity and Alterity in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

The Reversal of Modernity: From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism

Do Shylock and Rumpelstiltskin win on appeal? The Justice of Silas Marner

I crave the law : De quelques passions juridiques

Shakespeare's "Complex" Dance Imaginary from Text to Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Frederick Ashton's The Dream

Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Problems of Relativity

Hybrid Identities: Joan of Arc Between History, Drama and the Law

Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and 'The Cow Trial': Law, Power, Justice and Eristics

A Painted Ship and a Painted Ocean: Gregson v Gilbert revisited

New Provinces of Writing and Legal Education: Law, Language and Society in Blackstone's Commentaries

Law, Clemency and the Politics of Emotion in Heinrich von Kleist's The Prince of Homburg

Fairy Tales and the Representation of Female Education in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

Female Forensics: The Woman Reader in Court in Charles Reade's Griffith Gaunt (1866)

Revulsion, Paradigmatic Shifts and Legal Philosophy: Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Path of the Law and its Impact on American Legal Thought

Il mostruoso e divino incanto: le sirene e un caso di ekphrasis

Breaking the Silence: Cultural and Legal Encounters

Urban Readings: The City as Text in Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin

Embodied Monstrosity and Identitarian Fluidity in Jeanette Winterson's Novels of the 1980s

"In Some Dark Form I'll Continue": James Ellroy's Silent Terror

Barnes' "The Stowaway" Between Post-Modernism and Post-Anthropocentrism

Resilience, Narrative Attentiveness and Care(‐giving): Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces

Mythic and Fairy-Tale Elements in Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann

"Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong?"

Posts Manent, Lex Volat: Detective Stories in Electronic Literature

Promethean Longing: Ridley Scott's Speculative Legalism

The Rocky Horror Show as Liminal, Gothic, Monstrous, Shakespearean Biolegal Fable

Contributors

Index of Names and Keywords

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110670226

3110670224

OCLC:

1143822228