Description
In 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.
About the Author
Edited by Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law, New York, US and Visiting Professor, School of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Daniela Gandorfer, Ethics Institute, Northeastern University, US and Cecilia Gebruers, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Social Studies, University of San Martin (IDAES-UNSAM), Argentina
Reviews
'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
Book Information
ISBN 9781839102257
Author Peter Goodrich
Format Hardback
Page Count 640
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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.
About the Author
Edited by Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law, New York, US and Visiting Professor, School of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Daniela Gandorfer, Ethics Institute, Northeastern University, US and Cecilia Gebruers, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Social Studies, University of San Martin (IDAES-UNSAM), Argentina
Reviews
'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
Book Information
ISBN 9781839102257
Author Peter Goodrich
Format Hardback
Page Count 640
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
