Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Fables of the Law

Fairy Tales in a Legal Context

Edited by: Daniela Carpi and Marett Leiboff

Volume 13 in the series Law & Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110496680

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About this book

The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its subversion, of the politically correct and of the various means that have been used to enforce the law. Fairy tales are a fundamental tool to examine legal procedures and structures in their many failings and errors. Therefore, we have privileged the term "fables" of the law just to stress the ethical perspective: they are moral parables that often speak of justice miscarried and justice sought.
Law and jurists are creators of "fables" on the view that law is born out of the facts (ex facto ius oritur) so that there is a need for narrative coherence both on the level of the case and the level of legislation (or turned the other way around: what does it mean if no such coherence is found?). This is especially of interest given the influx of all kinds of new technologies that are "fabulous" in themselves and hard to incorporate in traditional doctrinal schemes and thus in the construction of a new reality.

Author / Editor information

Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, Italy; Marett Leiboff, University of Wollongong, Australia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction
Fables of the Law, a Literary Perspective Daniela Carpi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Fabulous Law: Legal Fables Marett Leiboff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Part I: Fabulising Law
The Wondrous (Baroque) Gender Revolution, or the Rise and Fall of the Empire of Fairies Luis Gómez Romero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
The Haunting Memory of Law: Mystic Fables, Uncanny Presences and Normative Spectrality Cristina Costantini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Political Sublime: Heterodoxy and Jurisdiction at the Origin of Modernity Pier Giuseppe Monateri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Mystical Bodies and Bodies of Law: On Juridical Theology and the (Re)Foundations of the West Riccardo Baldissone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part II: Contemporary Fables
Narrators of Fables or Framers of the Constitution? The Acallam na Senórach Beyond Time, Place, and Law Matteo Nicolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Playing with Conventions and Traditions: The Modern Legal Fairy Tale Doris Pichler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
The Good Old Rule, the Catspaw and a Two-Headed Baby Marett Leiboff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Ethics and Law at Play on the Football Pitch Giuseppe Rossi and Paola Carbone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Earth Jurisprudence and the Myth of Gaia Valentina Adami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Part III: Fables of Family
Archetypes and Family Models Alessandra Cordiano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Divorce and the Failure of Law in Dickens’s Hard Times Anna Enrichetta Soccio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Bluebeard and the Polygamous Family Maria Caterina Baruffi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Part IV: Law, Myth and Magic
Fables of the Holocaust: Hansel and Gretel Daniela Carpi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Let the Right Law In: True Blood, the Twilight Saga and The Passage as Lex Vampirica William P. MacNeil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Tales of Terror: The Pillowman and the Violence of the Virtual Sara Soncini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
The Fable of the Bees in Contemporary Penal Law Filippo Sgubbi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Summons, Prophecies, Possession and Madness: Intersections of Law and Magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Roxanne Barbara Doerr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
An Invented Executive: The Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter Giovanna Ligugnana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Law and Magic: King Arthur and the Making of a Myth Raffaele Cutolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of literature and law.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 455
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
Keywords: Law; literature; fables; fairy tales

eBook

Published: October 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110496680

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110494723