Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context PDF
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Fables of the Law Law & Literature Edited by Daniela Carpi and Klaus Stierstorfer Volume 13 Fables of the Law Fairy Tales in a Legal Context Edited by Daniela Carpi and Marett Leiboff ISBN 978-3-11-049472-3 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-049668-0 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-049350-4 ISSN 2191-8457 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Table of Contents Introduction Daniela Carpi Fables of the Law, a Literary Perspective 3 Marett Leiboff Fabulous Law: Legal Fables 33 Part I: Fabulising Law Luis Gómez Romero The Wondrous (Baroque) Gender Revolution, or the Rise and Fall of the Empire of Fairies 49 Cristina Costantini The Haunting Memory of Law: Mystic Fables, Uncanny Presences and Normative Spectrality 83 Pier Giuseppe Monateri Political Sublime: Heterodoxyand Jurisdiction at the Origin of Modernity 95 Riccardo Baldissone Mystical Bodies and Bodies of Law: On Juridical Theology and the (Re)Foundations of the West 111 Part II: Contemporary Fables Matteo Nicolini Narrators of Fables or Framers of the Constitution? The Acallam na Senórach Beyond Time, Place, and Law 137 VI TableofContents Doris Pichler Playing with Conventions and Traditions: The Modern Legal Fairy Tale 169 Marett Leiboff The Good Old Rule, the Catspaw and a Two-Headed Baby 187 Giuseppe Rossi and Paola Carbone Ethics and Law at Play on the Football Pitch 209 Valentina Adami Earth Jurisprudenceand the Myth of Gaia 243 Part III: Fables of Family Alessandra Cordiano Archetypes and Family Models 259 Anna Enrichetta Soccio Divorce and the Failure of Law in Dickens’s Hard Times 275 Maria Caterina Baruffi Bluebeard and the Polygamous Family 283 Part IV: Law, Myth and Magic Daniela Carpi Fables of the Holocaust: Hansel and Gretel 309 William P. MacNeil Let the Right Law In: True Blood, the Twilight Saga and The Passage as Lex Vampirica 331 Sara Soncini Tales of Terror: The Pillowman and the Violence of the Virtual 355 Filippo Sgubbi The Fable of the Bees in Contemporary Penal Law 373 TableofContents VII Roxanne Barbara Doerr Summons, Prophecies, Possession and Madness: Intersections of Law and Magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 379 Giovanna Ligugnana An Invented Executive: The Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter 419 Raffaele Cutolo Law and Magic: King Arthur and the Making of a Myth 435 Contributors 445 Subject index 451 Introduction
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