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Book SynopsisIn this original and thought-provoking Research Handbook, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, lawyers, judges, and writers offer a range of perspectives on rethinking law by means of literary concepts. Presenting a comprehensive introduction to jurisliterary themes, it destabilises the traditional hierarchy that places law before literature and exposes the literary nature of the legal.
Chapters explore multiple genres and modes, from travel reviews to graphic novels, from poetics to ghost-writing, from cartography to speculative fiction. Working with diverse methods and areas of inquiry, including enstrangement, colonial entanglements, blockchain narratives, transing and transgression of many kinds, matterphor, aesthetics and epistemology, this Research Handbook provides a systematic application of literary approaches to the reading of law.
Scholars and students of jurisprudence, and those in the humanities with an interest in law and literature, will find this ground-breaking Research Handbook an indispensable guide. It also offers insight to international legal scholars looking for materialist accounts of law, as well as those interested in contemporary challenges to the rule of law.
Trade Review'The Research Handbook on Law and Literature is a gloriously provocative and satisfyingly comprehensive compendium addressing the ethics of reading. Both law and literature distribute value, materialize universes of cognition, and deliver cultural sensibilities into the realm of the real. That linkage between legality and the fictive is philological at its core: a kaleidoscopic churning of words, symbols, whole languages and ontographies. The chapters in this volume examine that complexly authoritative word-power: the stony edifices of punition, sacrilege, privilege and existence are undressed for their ludic manipulations, artful rotations of viewpoint, elegant wordplay and profoundly poetic constructions. Each distinguished contributor to this Handbook shines extraordinary light upon the responsibilities of that world-making, revealing both law’s aesthetic sensorium, as well as literature’s governing appeal.’ -- Patricia J. Williams, Northeastern University, US
‘Since its inception in the late 1980s, the Law & Literature movement has proven to be the most innovative, original, boundaries-shaking research program in contemporary legal theory. This Handbook, gathering grand pioneers and new hotshots, will prove how, to even the most reluctant reader. The sheer level of imagination, virtuosity and rigor of its contributors should put to shame those among us who are not part of the same league – which means: almost everyone.’ -- Laurent de Sutter, Vriije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
‘This is an important examination of the complex relations between law and language, esthetic and normativity, sensitivity and narrativity, violence and words, humiliation and justice. The chapters in this highly original Research Handbook bring different voices, from plural geographies and a variety of intellectual traditions. Metaphors, overlapping language games, bodies in pain, promises and utopias: here is a sophisticated and exciting community of ideas, affinities that transcend academic departments and that intervene at the edges of the political and under the skin of infrapolitics.’ -- Claudio Martyniuk, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Law and Literature. What is your power? 1 Daniela Gandorfer PART I VISIONS AND DECISIONS 2 Premonition 15 Peter Goodrich 3 Ostranenie 28 Jorge Luis Roggero 4 Theatricality 38 Marett Leiboff 5 Perspective 64 James R. Martel PART II CUTTER ISLANDS 6 Legacies 83 Anne Bottomley 7 Castration 110 Maria Aristodemou 8 Utopia 128 Elena Loizidou 9 Adda 147 Debolina Dutta 10 Cartographies 174 Sabarish Suresh PART III GOVERNANCE 11 Exhaustion 201 Nathan Moore 12 Oikonomia 223 Marinos Diamantides 13 Wilding 250 Nicole Rogers PART IV (CIS)TEMS OF THOUGHT 14 Billets 272 Jannice Käll 15 Fury 284 Virginia Emilse Zuleta 16 Hyperbole 296 Elena Cirkovic PART V TENSE FRAMES 17 Tenses 315 Mikus Duncis and Geoff Gordon 18 Travel 327 Nofar Sheffi 19 Death 339 Bernard Keenan PART VI NARRATIONS 20 Blocks 351 Andrea Leiter 21 Auto-bio-ethno-graphy 364 Cecilia Gebruers 22 Beoble 373 Deepak Unnikrishnan 23 Transing 378 Greta Olson and Laura Borchert PART VII MATTERING-FORTH 24 Grounds 401 Rhys Aston and Margaret Davies 25 Slash 419 Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos 26 Ditches 438 Adam Gearey PART VIII JURISLITERARY HISTORIES 27 Miracles 454 Serene Richards 28 Soul 471 Jesús R. Velasco 29 Ambiguity 483 Susan Byrne PART IX CROSSING SENSIBILITY 30 Transgression 499 Angela Condello and Tiziano Toracca 31 Transdiscourse 518 Gonzalo Sebastián Aguirre and Christian Alejandro Kessel 32 Trauma 532 Phillip Mitsis PART X A WORD ON JUSTICE 33 Lessons 552 Richard H. Weisberg 34 Illocutionary 568 María Pía Lara 35 Poetics 580 Alejandro Awad Index 592
