1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465213703321

Autore

Manderson Desmond

Titolo

Kangaroo courts and the rule of law [[electronic resource] ] : the legacy of modernism / / Desmond Manderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

0-203-12363-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

GlassHouse book

Disciplina

340.11

Soggetti

Rule of law - Philosophy

Rule of law in literature

Justice in literature

Derrida, Jacques

Law -- Language

Law and literature

Law and the humanities

Lawrence, D. H. -- (David Herbert), -- 1885-1930. -- Kangaroo

Legal certainty

Rule of law

Law, Politics & Government

English

Languages & Literatures

Law, General & Comparative

English Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."-T.p. verso.

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Irony of Law and Literature""; ""The mimetic fallacy ""; ""The romantic fantasy""; ""Letting modernism happen � at last""; ""3 1922""; ""Modernism and the crisis of modernity""; ""The romantic turn""; ""Carl Schmitt and the



death of the rule of law""; ""4 Enter the Kangaroo""; ""Origin and reception""; ""Introducing Kangaroo""; ""5 The Rule of Law and the Legacy of Modernism""; ""Troubling the rule of law""; ""Two ways to forget history""

""6 How Kangaroo Rewrote Lawrence""""Bakhtin and Lawrence on the ethics of the novel""; ""Text""; ""Texture""; ""7 Reality and Therapy in the Novel""; ""Context: Lawrence�s nightmare and the recovery of memory""; ""Sub-text: The novel as a therapeutic genre""; ""8 Polarity""; ""Antecedents""; ""Analogues""; ""Descendents""; ""9 Thirroul of Law""; ""Narrativity and performativity""; ""Polarity, publicity, and the rule of law""; ""A triangulation""; ""10 Littoral Readings""; ""On the road""; ""On the beach""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778108503321

Autore

Rice Prudence M

Titolo

Maya calendar origins [[electronic resource] ] : monuments, mythistory, and the materialization of time / / Prudence M. Rice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007

ISBN

0-292-79503-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere

Disciplina

529/.32978427

Soggetti

Maya calendar

Maya chronology

Maya cosmology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Note on Orthography and Dates -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 In the Beginning -- 3 Mesoamerican Calendrics -- 4 Maya Calendar Developments in Broader Context -- 5 Middle and Late Preclassic -- 6 Late Preclassic -- 7 The Early Maya Lowlands -- 8 Early Lowland Maya Intellectual Culture -- 9 The Materialization and Politicization of Time -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence



M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental connection between timekeeping and Maya political organization sparked Rice's interest in the origins of the two major calendars used by the ancient lowland Maya, one 260 days long, and the other having 365 days. In Maya Calendar Origins, she presents a provocative new thesis about the origins and development of the calendrical system. Integrating data from anthropology, archaeology, art history, astronomy, ethnohistory, myth, and linguistics, Rice argues that the Maya calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought, around 1200 BC, as an outgrowth of observations of the natural phenomena that scheduled the movements of late Archaic hunter-gatherer-collectors throughout what became Mesoamerica. She asserts that an understanding of the cycles of weather and celestial movements became the basis of power for early rulers, who could thereby claim "control" over supernatural cosmic forces. Rice shows how time became materialized—transformed into status objects such as monuments that encoded calendrical or temporal concerns—as well as politicized, becoming the foundation for societal order, political legitimization, and wealth. Rice's research also sheds new light on the origins of the Popol Vuh, which, Rice believes, encodes the history of the development of the Mesoamerican calendars. She also explores the connections between the Maya and early Olmec and Izapan cultures in the Isthmian region, who shared with the Maya the cosmovision and ideology incorporated into the calendrical systems.