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Introduction: The Sublime of Law
No full textThis introduction brings the fields of law and literature together by demonstrating that the discourses of law are liminal in many ways
Riccardo III: rielaborazione di un trauma narcisistico
No full textIl saggio analizza il Riccardo III di Shakespeare come la messa in scena di una personalità perversa che usa le azioni malvage come rielaborazione di un trauma narcisistico
Cultural mobility and diaspora: the case of Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock
No full textMy view of diaspora involves its cultural consequences and focuses on the problem of cultural mobility. Studies on diaspora and cultural mobility must be able to account for the tension between individual agency and social limitation in a new way. One can speak of creative tensions in religious, sexual, and specific cultural contexts in which the static quality is only an unstable moment because it is inscribed in a dynamic process which may experience moments of destruction of the existing and moments of creation of the new. Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock (1993) is an example of how literature deals with the concept of Diaspora, cultural mobility, and law, though from a subverted perspective. Operation Shylock is a case of the psychological examination of stolen identities. In this novel Roth discusses a fundamental historical problem in a paradoxical and ironic way, using a recurring figure in his novels, that of the doppelgänger. The problem of what kind of law should be applied pervades the novel. In fact the “real” Philip Roth would like to sue his double for being an impostor and he is meditating on what charge he can bring against him. Such a problem is also created by cultural mobility. If the cultural roots of each single Jewish group forming the State of Israel are called into question by the idea of resettlement, then the legal roots are part of the problem
Renaissance into Postmodernism: Anticipations of Legal Unrest
No full textThis essay compares the Renaissance and postmodernism and observes that the Renaissance has strong seeds of anticipation of what was to reach its climax in the late twentieth century
Introduction to Symbolism- Special Focus- Ut Pictura Poesis: Literature and Painting
No full textIn this introduction, the author analyses the relationship between literature and the visual art
Daniela Carpi: Law and Culture in the Age of Technology
No full textreview of the volume by Daniela Carpi: Law and Culture in the Age of Technolog
Practising Equity, Addressing Law. Equity in Law and Literature
No full textThis volume collects 23 papers from an eponymous May 2007 international conference held in Verona, Italy, on the concept of equity as it appears in law and in literature in legal, ethical, linguistic, and literary manifestations. Topics include linguistic analysis of the terms "equity," "equitable," and "just;" Platonic understandings of equity as an infraction to the strict rule of justice; the implications of the spatial understandings of the "law" as "something laid down" and "equity" as "even surface, level;" the jurisprudential roots of women's persecution in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; the discretionary risk of equity in the "post 9/11 world;" equity and human rights under international law; equity and ethics in cosmopolitanism; the reciprocal influence of Shakespearean drama and Elizabethan constitutional law; equity and Edmund Spenser's allegorical dramatization of the trial of Mary Stuart; the treatment of equity issues in Shakespeare's Hamlet, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice; contractual thinking in the conceptualization of love and justice in The Merchant of Venice; Adam Smith's use of equity as a general principle of law; equity applied to problems of private property and justice in the 18th century novel; equity and the law in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities; the concept of equity in Tim Park's novel Judge Savage; the relationship between truth and justice in P. D. James' novel A Certain Justice; and a corpus-based analysis of equity in judgments issued by the Chancery Division of the High Court of England and Wale
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