Symbolism 21

An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-11-075639-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

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Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all approach the subject from the perspective of literary and book studies, foregrounding literature’s potential to act as supplementary to a very wide variety of laws spread over historical, geographical, cultural and spatial grounds. The theoretical ground laid here thus posits both literature and law in the narrow sense. The articles gathered in this special issue analyse Anglophone literatures from the Renaissance to the present day and cover the three major genres, narrative, drama and poetry. The contributions address questions of the law’s psychoanalytic subconscious, copyright and censorship, literary negotiations of colonial and post-colonial territorial laws, the European ‘refugee debate’ and migration narratives, fictional debates on climate change, contemporary feminist drama and classic 19th-century legal narratives. This volume includes two insightful analyses of poetic texts with a special focus on the fact that poetry has often been neglected within the field of law and literature research. Special Focus editor: Franziska Quabeck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahrens, Rüdiger

Klaeger, Florian

Stierstorfer, Klaus

Tronicke, Marlena

Weitere Mitwirkende

Quabeck, Franziska

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Rüdiger Ahrens, U of Würzburg; Florian Kläger, U of Bayreuth; Klaus Stierstorfer, U of Münster; all Germany.