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Fables of the Law

Fairy Tales in a Legal Context

Ed. by Carpi, Daniela / Leiboff, Marett

Series:Law & Literature 13

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October 2016
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2016
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978-3-11-049668-0
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Frontmatter

Pages I-IV

Table of Contents

Pages V-VIII

Introduction

Fables of the Law, a Literary Perspective

Carpi, Daniela

Pages 3-32

Fabulous Law: Legal Fables

Leiboff, Marett

Pages 33-46

Part I: Fabulising Law

The Wondrous (Baroque) Gender Revolution, or the Rise and Fall of the Empire of Fairies

Romero, Luis Gómez

Pages 49-82

The Haunting Memory of Law: Mystic Fables, Uncanny Presences and Normative Spectrality

Costantini, Cristina

Pages 83-94

Political Sublime: Heterodoxy and Jurisdiction at the Origin of Modernity

Monateri, Pier Giuseppe

Pages 95-110

Mystical Bodies and Bodies of Law: On Juridical Theology and the (Re)Foundations of the West

Baldissone, Riccardo

Pages 111-134

Part II: Contemporary Fables

Narrators of Fables or Framers of the Constitution? The Acallam na Senórach Beyond Time, Place, and Law

Nicolini, Matteo

Pages 137-168

Playing with Conventions and Traditions: The Modern Legal Fairy Tale

Pichler, Doris

Pages 169-186

The Good Old Rule, the Catspaw and a Two-Headed Baby

Leiboff, Marett

Pages 187-208

Ethics and Law at Play on the Football Pitch

Rossi, Giuseppe / Carbone, Paola

Pages 209-242

Earth Jurisprudence and the Myth of Gaia

Adami, Valentina

Pages 243-256

Part III: Fables of Family

Archetypes and Family Models

Cordiano, Alessandra

Pages 259-274

Divorce and the Failure of Law in Dickens’s Hard Times

Soccio, Anna Enrichetta

Pages 275-282

Bluebeard and the Polygamous Family

Baruffi, Maria Caterina

Pages 283-306

Part IV: Law, Myth and Magic

Fables of the Holocaust: Hansel and Gretel

Carpi, Daniela

Pages 309-330

Let the Right Law In: True Blood, the Twilight Saga and The Passage as Lex Vampirica

MacNeil, William P.

Pages 331-354

Tales of Terror: The Pillowman and the Violence of the Virtual

Soncini, Sara

Pages 355-372

The Fable of the Bees in Contemporary Penal Law

Sgubbi, Filippo

Pages 373-378

Summons, Prophecies, Possession and Madness: Intersections of Law and Magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Doerr, Roxanne Barbara

Pages 379-418

An Invented Executive: The Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter

Ligugnana, Giovanna

Pages 419-434

Law and Magic: King Arthur and the Making of a Myth

Cutolo, Raffaele

Pages 435-444

Contributors

Pages 445-450

Subject index

Pages 451-456

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