Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso

Greta Olson

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 8
• Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso demonstrates how animal metaphors have been used to denigrate persons identified as criminal in lite... Lees meer

Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theater

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 5
• This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses... Lees meer

Spacing (In) Diaspora

Emma Patchett

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 14
• This work attempts to counteract the essentialism of originary thinking in the contemporary era by providing a new reading of a relatively understudie... Lees meer

Liminal Discourses

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 6
• This volume focuses on the sublime and proposes that the ethical aspect involved in the legal sublime is to contain the arrogance of the law.It also d... Lees meer

Performing the Renaissance Body

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 11
• In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal... Lees meer

As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 15
• Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Sh... Lees meer

The Law in Graphic Narratives

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 25
• Comics, manga and anime can offer an interesting perspective from which to explore representations of the law in popular culture. This book offers a b... Lees meer

Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature
• The interdisciplinary study of law and literature can help us better understand intersectionality, and vice versa: intersectional feminist perspective... Lees meer

Rhetoric and Evidence

Peter Schneck

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 1
• The book traces the changing relation and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, using examples from the 18th to the 20t... Lees meer

Dialogues on Justice

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 3
• The contributions presented in this volume are the result of research activities and interdisciplinary encounters organised by the Nordic Network of L... Lees meer

Bioethics and Biolaw Through Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 2
• In recent years, the well-established field of human anthropology has been put under scrutiny by the new data offered by science and technology. Scien... Lees meer

Fables of the Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 13
• The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in orde... Lees meer

Diaspora, Law and Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 12
• The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an inte... Lees meer

The Origins of the Law in Homer

Shulamit Almog

• Paperback | Duits | Law & Literature | nr. 21
• The book aims to introduce the Homeric oeuvre into the law and literature canon. It argues for a reading of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey as primo... Lees meer

Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 10
• Ancient declamation--the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios--defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads... Lees meer

Monsters and Monstrosity

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 16
• Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and ide... Lees meer

Visualizing Law and Authority

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 4
• The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the I... Lees meer

Citizenship, Law and Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 19
• This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vic... Lees meer

Literature and Human Rights

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 9
• The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Lite... Lees meer

Literature and Human Rights

• Paperback | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 9
• The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Lite... Lees meer

The Lawyer in Dickens

Franziska Quabeck

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 18
• The Lawyer in Dickens takes a closer look at the construction of his types of lawyers. While Dickens's critique of the legal system and its representa... Lees meer

Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare

Franziska Quabeck

• Hardcover | Engels | Law & Literature | nr. 7
• The concept of the just war poses one of the most important ethical questions to date. Can war ever be justified and, if so, how? When is a cause of w... Lees meer