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Literature and human rights : the law, the language and the limitations of human rights discourse /

The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, reaching ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ward, Ian, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Colección:Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; Volume 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Empathy, literature and human rights: the case of Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper / Helle Porsdam
  • Privacy, blighted Lives, and a blindspot in British law / Richard Mullender
  • A squeamishness about existing: Fernando Pessoa's quiet rejection of the human in The Book of Disquiet / Maria Aristodemou
  • I and another: rethinking the subject of human rights with Dostoyevsky, Bakhtin and Simondon / Riccardo Baldissone
  • Dehumanizing the enemy: how to avoid human rights / Daniela Carpi
  • Am I not a man and a brother? Notes on the representation of slavery in eighteenth century English art and literature / Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman
  • Mental illness and human rights in Patrick McGrath's Asylum / Charia Battisti
  • The role of forensics in human rights discourse: Kathy Reichs's crime fiction and the rights of the dead / Sidia Fiorato
  • Rumpole and the rights of accused terrorists / Roxanne Barbara Doerr
  • Reality, theatre and human rights / Carla Dente
  • The rights and wrongs of marriage: Article 16.2 UDHR and the case of Edith Dombey / Ian Ward
  • Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and the cause of female literacy in India / Paola Carbone
  • The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, by Montagu Slater: oral tradition and fundamental rights in the Trial' / Lisa Lanzoni
  • 'n Droë Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap: André Brink and the fundamental rights of the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa / Matteo Nicolini
  • The definition of "Linguistic Minority" linguistic versus legal perspectives / Alessandra Tomaselli and Lino Panzeri
  • Rights of humans/rights of nature: the language of environmental rights in UN Documents / Valentina Adami
  • On crimes, punishments, and words: legal and language issues in Cesare Beccaria's works / Mara Logaldo
  • Dignity and disgrace in law and literature / Jeanne Gaakeer.