A Theory of Law and Literature

Across Two Arts of Compromising
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44814-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 200 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law

In the present work, a legal philosopher (Angela Condello) and a literaray scholar (Tiziano Toracca) develop the idea that a comparison between law and literature must be framed starting from the modes in which law and literature function. In this sense, they read law and literature as arts of compromising characterized by an analogous and yet, at the same time, profoundly different structure. Both, in fact, mediate conflicts between norms and transgressions, and more precisely between a principle of normativity (repression), on the one hand; and a principle of counternormativity (repressed), on the other hand. Through a progression in three steps, aimed at clarifying some peculiarities of law (1) and literature (2), by referring to examples of their interaction (3), the authors finally sketch some relevant hypotheses on why a placement across these two arts of compromising suggests some theoretical itineraries on their threshold.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Condello, Angela

Toracca, Tiziano

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Theory of Law and Literature

Across Two Arts of Compromising

Angela Condello and Tiziano Toracca

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 Law, or of Normativity

2 Literature, or of Counternormativity

3 Mediation between Oppositions

Provisional Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgements

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Angela Condello is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Messina and Adjunct Professor at the University of Turin. Her research focuses on legal theory and method, law and humanities, law and gender.

Tiziano Toracca is Visiting Professor at Ghent University and Post-doc Fellow in Italian Contemporary Literature at the University of Turin. His research focuses on Italian Contemporary Literature, Modernism and Neomodernism, Literary Representation of Work, Law and Literature.