The Letter of the Law: Literature, Justice and the Other (Paperback)

Contents: Costas Douzinas: The Letter of the Law and the Spirit of Literature ? Stamatina Dimakopoulou/Christina Dokou/Efterpi Mitsi: The Other as the (Purloined) Letter of the Law ? Kinga Foldvary: Outlaw or Above the Law? Legal Issues in William Harrison’s Description of England ? Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou: Law, Justice and Poetry in Faerie Land ? Zoe Detsi-Diamanti: Legal Exclusion vs. Republican Inclusion in Judith S. Murray’s The Traveller Returned (1796) ? Nic Panagopoulos: Sovereign Law and Bare Life in Bleak House ? Sheila Teahan: The Remedy of Law ? Ava Baron: Happy Ending for Women Workers, or Tragedy for the Workplace? Cultural and Legal Narratives of Sexual Harassment in the United States ? Jeffrey L. Spear: Was She This Name? Law, Literature and the ≪Devadasi≫ ? Helen Nicholson: ≪Portia in Petticoats≫: The Legal Performances of Georgina Weldon ? Christina Dokou: Courtroom Humour, Performative Justice: The Case of Harper Lee vs. Fannie Flagg ? Maria Vara: ≪Victim Precipitation≫ in the Anti-detective Fiction of Muriel Spark and Diane Johnson ? Yannis Stamos: Literature Before the Law: Derrida on the Democratic ≪Right to Say Everything≫ ? Elina Staikou: Burning Dead Letters: Bartleby, Law and Literature in the Nuclear Age ? Shela Sheikh: Bartleby - Derrida: Literature, Law and Responsibility ? Claudia Trabuco: Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur? Authorship, Originality and the Work of Vergilio Ferreira ? Anna-Maria Piskopani: Reality-flirting Literature as an Aliud in Defamation and Privacy Law.