Literary Acts of Agency: Negotiating the Rule of Law / Ivana Perica, Catriona Corke, Philipp Wegmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perica, Ivana, editor.

Corke, Catriona, editor.

Wegmann, Philipp, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (V, 150 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Ivana Perica; Catriona Corke; Philipp Wegmann.

Summary:

At a time when the rule of law is being reshaped and, in certain respects, even severely distorted, this volume examines the ways in which literature both legitimises the principles underlying the present rule of law and anticipates assumptions that take shape before new ideas are publicly felt or articulated within legal discourse. Literary acts of agency thus contribute to a reconfi guration of the legal sphere, advancing arguments through an aesthetic form that remains closely connected to broader social and cultural practices. Rather than approaching literature merely as a vehicle of ruling ideology or as a moral signpost for future legal developments, this volume considers how literary texts negotiate the interval between the rule of law as an ideal and how it is enacted in practice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

An Introduction / Ivana Perica, Catriona Corke, Philipp Wegmann

Disrupting the Cycle: Critique of Violence and the Revolutionary Caesura / Philipp Wegmann

The Everyday in Middlemarch: On the Narratability of the Ethical Life in George Eliot / Johanna-Charlotte Horst

Agency through the Mirror in Ilse Aichingers Spiegelgeschichte / Charlotte Woodford

The Rule of Law is a Fiction: The Closing Speeches of Radical Left Defendants in 1970s West Berlin / Catriona Corke

Against Inarticulation: Sexual Violence and the Limits of the Verbal in Unica Zurns Dunkler Fruhling / Phyllis Koehler

Structuring Violence: Perversions of Justice in Fatma Aydemirs Ellbogen / Sarah Colvin

Stateless, on Stage: Elfriede Jelineks Die Schutzbefohlenen / Katrin Trustedt

Law, Right and Human Rights: Reading Imbolo Mbues How Beautiful We Were / Ivana Perica

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed April 14 2026)

ISBN:

9783111506692