Letter of the Law : Literature, Justice and the Other.
Title:
Letter of the Law : Literature, Justice and the Other.
Author:
Dimakopoulou, Stamatina.
ISBN:
9783653033359
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Acknowledgments -- The Letter of the Law and the Spirit of LiteratureCostas Douzinas -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction: the Other as the (Purloined) Letterof the Law - Stamatina Dimakopoulou, Christina Dokou, Efterpi Mitsi -- Part I: THE OTHER BEFORE THE LAW -- Outlaw or Above the Law? Legal Issues in William Harrison's Description of England -Kinga Földváry -- Law, Justice and Poetry in Faerie Land - Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou -- Legal Exclusion vs. Republican Inclusion in Judith S. Murray's The Traveller Returned (1796) - Zoe Detsi-Diamanti -- Sovereign Law and Bare Life in Bleak House - Nic Panagopoulos -- The Remedy of Law - Sheila Teahan -- Part II: DOING GENDER JUSTICE -- Happy Ending for Women Workers, or Tragedy for the Workplace? Cultural and Legal Narratives of Sexual Harassment in the United States - va Baron -- Was She This Name? Law, Literature and the "Devadasi" - Jeffrey L. Spear -- "Portia in Petticoats": The Legal Performances of Georgina Weldon - Helen Nicholson -- Courtroom Humour, Performative Justice: The Case of Harper Lee vs. Fannie Flagg - Christina Dokou -- "Victim Precipitation" in the Anti-detective Fiction of Muriel Spark and Diane Johnson - Maria Vara -- Part III: TEXTUALITY AND LAW -- Literature Before the Law: Derrida on the Democratic "Right to Say Everything" - Yannis Stamos -- Burning Dead Letters: Bartleby, Law and Literature in the Nuclear Age - Elina Staikou -- Bartleby-Derrida: Literature, Law and Responsibility - Shela Sheikh -- Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur? Authorship, Originality and the Work of Vergílio Ferreira - Cláudia Trabuco -- Reality-flirting Literature as an Aliud in Defamation and Privacy Law - Anna-Maria Piskopani -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This book combines legal as well as political and theoretical questions in a variety of contexts, ranging from legal issues in the early modern period to critical explorations of law/s, justice and textuality in contemporary literature and culture. The essays in this volume offer critical perspectives on the role of literature and theory in relation to the law and explore otherness and justice in early modern, Victorian and contemporary texts, postmodern theory, colonial and postcolonial contexts and popular culture. Examining how legal and literary narratives construct, repress, legitimise, but also enable the Other, this volume offers new insights into forms of alterity, marginality and exclusion and articulates the imperative need to reconfigure issues of justice as always intertwined with the Other.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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