Screen LibraryFables of the law : fairy tales in a legal context /
"What can fables and fairytales tell us of law, its practices and ideals? Drawing on real and metaphorical literary and jurisprudential accounts and practices of law, this volume reveals that law has recourse to fables and fairytales as moral exempla, as a new form of law and literature, found...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Law & literature,
volume 13 |
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| Summary: |
"What can fables and fairytales tell us of law, its practices and ideals? Drawing on real and metaphorical literary and jurisprudential accounts and practices of law, this volume reveals that law has recourse to fables and fairytales as moral exempla, as a new form of law and literature, found in diverse sources ranging from the fables of de La Fontaine and fairytales of Perrault and Grimm to the modern fairytales of 'True blood' and 'Harry Potter.'"-- |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 455 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9783110494723 3110494728 |
| Index Number: | K183 |
| CLC: | D90 |
| Call Number: | D90/F121 |
| Contents: |
Fables of the law, a literary perspective / Fabulous law: legal fables / The wondrous (baroque) gender revolution, or the rise and fall of the empire of fairies / The haunting memory of law: mystic fables, uncanny presences and normative spectrality / Political sublime: heterodoxy and jurisdiction at the origin of modernity / Mystical bodies and bodies of law: on juridical theology and the (re)foundations of the west / Narrators of fables or framers of the constitution? the acallam na senórach beyond time, place, and law / Playing with conventions and traditions: the modern legal fairy tale / The good old rule, the catspaw and a two-headed baby / Ethics and law at play on the football pitch / Earth jurisprudence and the myth of Gaia / Archetypes and family models / Divorce and the failure of law in Dickens's hard times / Bluebeard and the polygamous family / Let the right law in : true blood, the twilight saga and the passage as lex vampirica / Tales of terror : the pillowman and the violence of the virtual / The fable of the bees in contemporary penal law / Summons, prophecies, possession and madness : intersections of law and magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / An invented executive : the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter / Law and magic : King Arthur and the making of a myth / |