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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778478703321

Autore

Morgan Edward M. <1955->

Titolo

The aesthetics of international law / / Ed Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4426-8486-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

340.11

Soggetti

Law and aesthetics

International law - Language

Law - Language

Law and literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Edgar Allan Poe: law and terrorism -- Henrik Ibsen and Bertolt Brecht: war crimes trials -- Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot: public international law -- James Joyce: conflict of laws -- Franz Kafka: extraterritorial criminal law -- Mordecai Richler: universal jurisdiction -- Vladimir Nobokov: extradition to the death penalty -- Jorge Luis Borges: the break-up of Yugoslavia -- Thomas Pynchon: envioronmental liability -- Kurt Vonnegut: the law of war -- Conclusion: for a new scholarship -- Epilogue: pound of flesh.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Aesthetics of International Law, Ed Morgan engages in a literary parsing of international legal texts. In order to demonstrate how these types of legal narratives are imbued with modernist aesthetics, Morgan juxtaposes international legal documents and modern (as well as some immediately pre- and post-modern) literary texts.