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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796916103321

Autore

Quéma Anne <1960->

Titolo

Power and legitimacy : law, culture, and literature / / Anne Quéma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-1929-5

1-4426-1928-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Disciplina

809/.933554

Soggetti

Law and literature

Sociological jurisprudence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Symbolic Power and Legitimacy""; ""2 Social Poiesis and Symbolic Power""; ""3 Law�s Symbolic Power to Legitimize""; ""4 Symbolic Violence and Illegitimacy: The Political Uncanny""; ""5 The Symbolic Power and Violence of Legal Utterances""; ""6 The Legitimacy of the Family: Family Law and Gothic Fiction""; ""7 The Political Uncanny of the Family: Patricia Duncker�s The Deadly Space Between and the Civil Partnership Act 2004""

""8 Legitimizing the Subject of Domestic Violence: Lesley Glaister�s Honour Thy Father and Laws of the Household""""9 Resistance and Legitimacy""; ""10 Making the Law""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Examining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family within the modern Gothic novel, Anne Quéma shows how the forms and effects of political power transform as one shifts from discourse to discourse.