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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
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
The Concept of Equity: An Interdisciplinary Assessment
No full textEquity is a protean concept that covers the fields of law, philosophy of law and morality: to these fields economics and social sciences can also be added, as this volume demonstrates. In the history of human ideas the problem of equity has been inseparable from that of justice. Equity is synonymous with ideal justice, since when a norm is rigidly applied in such a way so as not to correspond in a concrete case to the ideal of justice, justice itself is impaired.
The aim of this volume, an appraisal of the historical and comparative aspects of the concept of equity in English and German law and literatures, is to foreground and discuss two major points: interest in equity as a principle of justice is enhanced in periods of rapid transition; many of the difficulties and ambiguities that arise when any attempt is made to offer a convincing, comparatively permanent concept of equity derive from the fact that the notion cannot be based on objective and unchanging criteria.
The literary field, with its fictional discourses, gives evidence of how European literatures have always been concerned with the ethical debate, the problem of equity and the quest for shared ethics. The interdisciplinary aspect of this volume – involving law in connection with the literary and economic discourse considered in a European perspective – is meant to widen the scope of the proposed problem of equity in terms adequate to the European context and to the complex relationships of contemporary societies
Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper: New Definitions of Human Dignity in Novel and Film
No full textMy starting point is that bioethics and the problems connected tohuman rights and human dignity are the logical evolution of the principles ofequity. My paper aims at analysing Jodi Picoult’s novel My Sister’s Keeper (2005)in the light of the connections existing between Literature and the interdisciplinaryfields of Bioethics and Biolaw. Bioethics examines the moral and ethicaldimension of biological sciences, with particular reference to health-relatedcontexts, whereas biolaw takes into account their more and more evident legalimplications. Picoult’s literary production is chiefly devoted to inspect howmodern technology applied to medicine has affected our lives, bringing onevident threats to the consistency of our rights and undermining our interpersonalrelationships as well. Throughout this compelling novel, life, love andcompassion, science and the law indissolubly merge together. The extremelycomplicated context of boundary medical situations the author presents, forceus to open our eyes to alarming current scenarios, and to their future possibledevelopments as well. Her fictional characters call for a reassessment of theconcept of human dignity and for the necessity for law to defend the integrity ofthe body
The Magus di John Fowles da The Tempest di William Shakespeare: studio di un rapporto di filiazione
No full textThe Magus di John Fowles da The Tempest di William Shakespeare: studio di un rapporto di filiazion
Cicatrici dello spirito
No full textIl testo si occupa della ricerca della realtà e dell'autenticità nel mondo contemporaneo e su come essa condizioni il modo in cui noi interpretiamo la complessa situazione uman
Medicina e bioetica nella letteratura inglese contemporanea
No full textI contributi raccolti nel presente volume prendono in considerazione vari aspetti del progresso medico-scientifico tramite l'analisi di alcune opere letterari
Violazione dei diritti umani nell'epoca dell'Olocausto e del post-Olocausto
No full textIl saggio prende in considerazione il rapporto letteratura e medicina da un punto di vista medico-legale, analizzando come il trauma dell'Olocausto abbia bloccato lo sviluppo dei bambini, creando danni psicologici che si vanno ad intramare con la violazione dei diritti uman
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