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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812147203321

Autore

Williams Melanie <1958->

Titolo

Empty justice : one hundred years of law, literature and philosophy : existential, feminist and normative perspectives in literary jurisprudence / / Melanie Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Cavendish, c2002

ISBN

1-135-34021-8

1-135-34022-6

1-280-16537-5

9786610165377

1-84314-424-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

340.11

823/.9109355

Soggetti

Law in literature

Law and literature

Feminist jurisprudence

Law - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; Acknowledgments; CONTENTS; Table of Cases; Table of Statutes; Introduction; 1 THE YEAR 2000  THE EMPTY CITY JG BALLARD'S SUPER CANNES AND JM COETZEE'S DISGRACE; 2 THE 1890s - THE EMPTY WOOD: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES RAPE, SEDUCTION AND PROVOCATION: EFFACEMENT OF IDENTITY AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE; 3 THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY  THE EMPTY ROOM  THE SUBJECT  WOOLF JOYCE AND THE VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA'S CLAIM; 4 THE 1940s  THE EMPTY WAR GRAHAM GREEN'S THE MINISTRY OF FEAR AND ELIZABETH BOWEN'S THE HEAT OF THE DAY

5 THE 1960s  THE EMPTY SHELL JOHN FOWLES'S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN AND IRIS MURDOCH'S BRUNO'S DREAM6 THE 1980s  THE EMPTY ISLAND JM COETZEE'S FOE; 7 INCONCLUSION; 8 CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Utilising literature as a serious source of challenges to questions in philosophy and law, this book provides a fresh perspective not only upon the inculcation of the legal subject, but also upon the relationship between modernism, postmodernism and how such concepts might evolve in the construction of community ethics. The creation and role of the legal subject is just one aspect of jurisprudential enquiry now attracting much attention. How do moral values act upon the subject? How do moral 'systems' impinge upon the subject - jurist and judged - throughout the 20th century, when re