Tag-Archiv: Law and Literature

Law and Literature (Forschung)

1. The European Network for Law and Literature Scholarship has been founded as a vehicle for increasing communication and cooperation between individuals working on related topics within Europe. Founded by a judge and law professor working in the Netherlands and a literary scholar in Germany, this network aims to embrace the variety of disciplines and [...]
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Law and Literature (Forschung)

“European Dialogues Concerning Law, Death,the Linguistic and the Literary”. Unter diesem Titel bespricht Greta Olson Figures of Law. Studies in the Interference of Law and Literature. Hg. von Gert Hofmann. (Edition Kairos 3) Tübingen und Basel: Francke 2007. IASL online, Kriminalität und Medien. Verwandte Artikel Lex Populi (0) Law and Literature (Forschung) (0) Recht und [...]
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Law and Literature (Forschung)

Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History. Edited by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010. Verlagsanzeige (mit ToC): “This innovative collection of essays by prominent scholars from the disciplines of literary studies, history and law explores the many [...]
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Law and Literature (Forschung)

Christine L. Krueger: Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 2010. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “Christine L. Krueger asks how “reading for the law” as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. She argues that a multidisciplinary “historical narrative jurisprudence” strengthens [...]
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Law and Literature (Forschung)

Law and Literature: Table of Contents Current Issue: Vol. 22, No. 2 Cover Front Matter Table of Contents Introduction William Gilmore Simms and the Literary Aesthetics of Crime and Capital Punishment Can Law-and-Humanities Survive Systems Theory? Symbolic Capital and the State’s Unconventional Weapon Against Insurgent Terrorism: Howard Barker’s Credentials of a Sympathizer Mys-Reading the Past [...]
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Mordgeschichte: Rundgang (Forschung)

1. Judy E. Gaughan: Murder Was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic. Austin: University of Texas Press 2010. Aus der Verlagsanzeige (mit ToC & Excerpt): “Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in [...]
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Lex Populi

William P. MacNeil: Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture. (The Cultural Lives of Law) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP 2007, Xiv, 241 p. Verlagsanzeige (mit ToC & Introduction): “This is a book about jurisprudence—or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are—to say the least—unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Legally Blonde, [...]
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Poetic Justice (Forschung)

Jonathan Kertzer: Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions: Studies in Literary Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press 2010. Verlagsanzeige (incl. ToC etc.): “Literature reveals the intense efforts of moral imagination required to articulate what justice is and how it might be satisfied. Examining a wide variety of texts including Shakespeare’s plays, Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas, and [...]
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Law and Literature: Liability vs. Guilt

Sandra Macpherson: Harm’s Way. Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2009. Verlagsanzeigen: “Macpherson’s unique approach connects the rise of the novel to contemporary developments in liability law — in particular, to legal principles of strict liability that hold persons accountable for harms inflicted upon others in the absence of intention, [...]
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Law and Literature (Vormärz)

Forum Vormärz Forschung. Jahrbuch 2009, 15. Jahrgang: Literatur und Recht im Vormärz. Herausgegeben von Claude D. Conter. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2010. Verlagsanzeige: “Schwerpunktthema des Jahrbuches 2009 des Forum Vormärz Forschung ist das Verhältnis von Literatur und Recht im Vormärz, ein seit den Anfängen der Vormärzforschung zentraler und kontinuierlich bearbeiteter Problemaufriss mit hoher Relevanz für das Verständnis [...]
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