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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 |
Pubblicazione: | London, : Cavendish, c2002 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina: | 340.11 |
823/.9109355 | |
Soggetto topico: | Law in literature |
Law and literature | |
Feminist jurisprudence | |
Law - Philosophy | |
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 SIEÌ€CLE; 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Empty justice |
ISBN: | 1-135-34021-8 |
1-135-34022-6 | |
1-280-16537-5 | |
9786610165377 | |
1-84314-424-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812147203321 |
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