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Power and legitimacy : law, culture, and literature /

Examining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family within the modern Gothic novel, Anne Quéma shows how the forms and effects of political power transform as one shifts from discourse to discourse.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quéma, Anne, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Symbolic power and legitimacy
  • Social poiesis and symbolic power
  • Law's symbolic power to legitimize
  • Symbolic violence and illegitimacy : the political uncanny
  • The symbolic power and violence of legal utterances
  • The legitimacy of the family : family law and gothic fiction
  • The political uncanny of the family : Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and the Civil Partnership Act 2004
  • Legitimizing the subject of domestic violence : Lesley Glaister's Honour Thy Father and laws of the household
  • Resistance and legitimacy
  • Making the law.