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Empty justice : one hundred years of law, literature, and philosophy : existential, feminist, and normative perspectives in literary jurisprudence /

Utilising literature as a serious source of challenges to questions in philosophy and law, this book provides a fresh perspective not only upon the inculcation of the legal subject, but also upon the relationship between modernism, postmodernism and how such concepts might evolve in the construction...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Melanie, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cavendish Pub., 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 THE YEAR 2000
  • THE EMPTY CITY: JG BALLARD'S SUPER-CANNES AND JM COETZEE'S DISGRACE
  • chapter 2 THE 1890s
  • THE EMPTY WOOD: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES RAPE, SEDUCTION AND PROVOCATION: EFFACEMENT OF IDENTITY AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE
  • chapter 'Seduction' and 'rape': blurred conceptions
  • chapter Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 'the facts' and three trial-narratives
  • chapter (Narrating) the socio-legal nexus
  • chapter 3 THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
  • THE EMPTY ROOM 'THE SUBJECT'
  • WOOLF, JOYCE AND THE VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA'S CLAIM
  • chapter 4 THE 1940s
  • THE EMPTY WAR: GRAHAM GREEN'S THE MINISTRY OF FEAR AND ELIZABETH BOWEN'S THE HEAT OF THE DAY
  • chapter DOMESTIC HISTORY, 'FABULAR' HISTORY, HISTORICISM
  • chapter MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE CAVE: THE ROLE OF WOMAN
  • chapter 5 THE 1960s
  • THE EMPTY SHELL: JOHN FOWLES'S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN AND / IRIS MURDOCH'S BRUNO'S DREAM
  • chapter 6 THE 1980s
  • THE EMPTY ISLAND: JM COETZEE'S FOE
  • The space of the social contract
  • chapter 7 INCONCLUSION
  • PART I EMPTY SIGNIFIERS INTRODUCTION: HUMAN NATURE; HUMAN NURTURE; PSYCHE
  • chapter HUMAN NATURE
  • chapter THE PSYCHE
  • chapter 8 CONCLUSION
  • NEGOTIATING EMPTINESS
  • chapter 'THE WOMAN WHO IS THE DOOR, THE MAN WITHOUT THE KEY ... '
  • chapter THE EXISTENTIAL AND THE NORMATIVE
  • chapter BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • chapter The 'German Princess' papers.