Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and Literature

Animalities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Garrard
Keyword(s):  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Sexual Encounters

Garrard explores the idea and practice of zoophilia in recent legal and cultural discourses, with particular attention to relevant literary texts and films. He reads representations of animals in human sexual contexts not as allegories but as reflections upon interspecies sexuality, tracking examples that he believes dramatize provocative interspecies sexual encounters: David Garnett’s Lady into Fox, Robinson Devor’s Zoo, and Marian Engel’s Bear. Rather than reading the literary texts as allegories, Garrard insists upon reading the animals as animals, with particular attention to the narrative strategies that make it harder to see them as either defenseless creatures without agency and in need of protection, or as simply hypersexualized and masculinized bundles of instincts.

Inszenierungsspiele

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Boy
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Public Persona

Franziska zu Reventlow’s novels have long been received as autobiographical references to her ‘scandalous’ life. Focusing instead on the narrative strategies and intermedial structure of her work, this study foregrounds Reventlow’s ironic deconstruction of cultural and literary traditions as well as her own public persona. The authorial myth surrounding Reventlow’s work and persona is explored as the effect of complex interplay between her self-fashioning and literary texts.

scholarly journals Law and Literature: A Review of Interdisciplinary Literary Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Raj Kishor Singh
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

This paper explores and recognizes common points of intersection of law and literature. Different literary texts have legal language, court scenes, cross examinations, lawyers, witnesses, judge, and audience. The main focus of this paper is to identify such events from literary texts and also to present instances that people take into the courts from literary texts. Law and literature originate and develop, after all, from the same culture and society. Humanities and social sciences are common grounds of origin and development of law and literature. They are related with each other. They do have correlation on the basis of culture, social norms and values, and humanities. In this paper, they discussed on the grounds of cognitive and behaviouristic aspects of human life.

Pathology, Power, and Patriarchy in The Autumn of the Patriarch and The General in His Labyrinth

2021 ◽  
pp. 523-537
Author(s):  
Helene C. Weldt-Basson
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Mental Deterioration ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Simon Bolivar ◽  
Political Novels ◽  
Sexual Encounters

In both of his political novels, The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989), García Márquez employs similar themes and narrative strategies to portray very different protagonists. The Patriarch is a prototypical Latin American dictator, while Simón Bolívar is the hero of Latin American independence. The protagonists share numerous characteristics, such as illnesses that serve as metaphors for their loss of power (physical in the case of the General, mental in the case of the Patriarch), characterization through their numerous sexual encounters, their distaste for losing at games, and their control of national funds. The Patriarch’s pathology functions to underscore a psychological obsession with power, whose loss corresponds to the Patriarch’s mental deterioration and ultimate senility, while the General’s illness relies on traditional associations of consumption as representative of melancholy (as outlined by Sontag in Illness as Metaphor), thus romanticizing the figure of Bolívar. This essay examines how García Márquez employs similar tropes and novelistic elements to evolve very different portraits of his two protagonists: the Patriarch as a mythic figure who epitomizes evil and the abuse of power, and the General as a postmodern historical figure who combines his power obsession with other mitigating characteristics, such as the love of his continent and the dream of its unity. A contraposition of these two characters illustrates social psychological distinctions between the dominance and the functionalist perspectives of power, in addition to clarifying many of the ambiguities inherent in García Márquez’s portrait of Bolívar.

Globalizing Law and Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Anker
Keyword(s):  
Slave Trade ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Globalization Of Law

The globalization of law and literature has trained attention on the historical role played by law in institutions like slavery and colonization, at the same time prompting questions about the neoimperial effects of an array of contemporary legal constructs and practices. These emphases have often created the presumption that law should foremost be an object of critique, and many widely read and taught literary texts have reinforced that suspicion. This chapter reads M. NourbeSe Philio’s Zong!, a long poem that contends with the legal system’s facilitation of the slave trade, to contend with the historical violence licensed by law. Yet the status of law under globalization is more complicated, and this chapter also analyzes law as a networked, dispersed phenomenon that can be both capacitating and ripe for manipulation. Nuruddin Farah’s novel Gifts illustrates many of these alternate dimensions of law and legality in an increasingly enmeshed, interdependent world.

scholarly journals Harry Potter and the Critical gaze: Autonomy pathways in literary response writing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Glenn Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Literary Response ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
English Class ◽  
Literacy Learners

Critical literacy studies require both textual reading and a knowledge of power dynamics in context. To achieve in critical literacy, learners need to work with different kinds of knowledge and integrate them. In this paper, I analyse how learners connect representations of social injustice from a popular literary text to issues of social justice in their broader cultural context. I investigate how different forms of knowledge came together in their response to a writing task. The empirical data comes from a critical literary course taught to Grade 8 learners in an English class in the southeastern United States. I offer an analysis of an exemplary essay submitted by a learner. In the analysis, I use concepts from the Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) dimension of Autonomy to show how the essay brought together information from the literary texts and from beyond to support interpretations of the characters' stances on the rights of elves. The analysis highlights how integration of knowledge drawn from imaginary and real contexts meets both the implicit and explicit critical literacy goals of the task. The findings offer a means for understanding how autonomy pathways can support teachers and learners in recognising and realising connections between texts and broader cultural discourses in ways that align with disciplinary literacy practices.

“Undesirable Immigrants”: The Language of Law and Literature in Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster”

Pólemos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-312
Author(s):  
Tania Zulli
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The Social

Abstract Over the last few decades, the field of law and literature studies has increasingly focused on the importance of literary texts in the interpretation of legal doctrines developing wider perspectives on society and on the law’s effect on the community itself. By considering the dynamic relationship between narrative works and legal documents, the present analysis proposes a reading of Joseph Conrad’s short story “Amy Foster” (1901), which focusses on the investigation of the social and political aspects of migration in late nineteenth-century Britain. Echoes of the migrant figure as represented in Conrad’s story can be found in the Aliens Act, the law passed by the British government in 1905 to regulate the flux of migrants from Eastern Europe. Taking into account the legal value of the Aliens Act and the social consequences of its application, the article will first examine general views on migration at the beginning of the twentieth century, and will later explore the language used in the statute and its relevance in the short story. To this end, the notion of “undesirable immigrant,” first introduced to describe migrants with well-defined characteristics, is anticipated by Joseph Conrad in “Amy Foster” whose protagonist, Yanko Goorall, is an emigrant from Eastern Europe. Conrad’s fictional representation of Goorall as an “undesirable immigrant” allows us to reflect on how his writing deals with (and anticipates) events and socio-cultural trends.

A Revenger’s Tragedy

Pólemos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Ward
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Revenge Porn ◽  
Dramatic Presentation

AbstractFrom its very inception modern “law and literature” scholarship has exhibited at least as much interest in what happens in the classroom as it has in what happens in the courtroom. Its principal ambition is educative, its primary audience student. In a strategic sense it hopes that the deployment of literary texts might enhance a law student’s appreciation of the human dimension of legal practice. The first part of this article will set the jurisprudential context, taking a closer look at the evolving legal regulation of “revenge porn,” as well as the critical debate which this regulation has stimulated. The second will then consider the dramatic presentation of the same issues and arguments in Placey’s play. According to Placey, any “time we write a script, we’re hoping in some way people will listen, that our words might have an effect, that they might shake people.”

A Revenger’s Tragedy

Pólemos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-359
Author(s):  
Ian Ward
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Revenge Porn ◽  
Dramatic Presentation

Abstract From its very inception modern “law and literature” scholarship has exhibited at least as much interest in what happens in the classroom as it has in what happens in the courtroom. Its principal ambition is educative, its primary audience student. In a strategic sense it hopes that the deployment of literary texts might enhance a law student’s appreciation of the human dimension of legal practice. The first part of this article will set the jurisprudential context, taking a closer look at the evolving legal regulation of “revenge porn,” as well as the critical debate which this regulation has stimulated. The second will then consider the dramatic presentation of the same issues and arguments in Placey’s play. According to Placey, any “time we write a script, we’re hoping in some way people will listen, that our words might have an effect, that they might shake people.” Evan Placey in “Sexting in Parliament: insights from the writer and director of Girls Like That,” in The Play Ground, March 24, 2014, available at: http://nickhernbooksblog.com/category/nhb-author/evan-placey (last accessed February 2, 2017). The final part will contemplate the extent to which this aspiration is realised in Girls Like That.

Diritto e letteratura a dialogo nella tradizione italiana: Introduzione al volume

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-231
Author(s):  
Bernardo Piciché
Keyword(s):  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The intertwining of law and literature in the Italian tradition constitutes the subject of the present issue of Forum Italicum. The volume is divided into a first section of scholarly essays and a second section of dialogues between the editor of the volume and Italian authors and one publisher whose works are imbued with legal elements. An analysis of recent judiciary events through the lens of a literary mindset ends the work. This introduction to the volume starts by bringing examples of the presence of the legal discourse in Italian literary texts. Then, it offers the editor’s view on the relationship between the two disciplines. As the author of this introduction sees it, law and literature are ontologically different disciplines, no matter how much they intersect and cross-fertilize each other. Commented synopsis of the essays and dialogues will conclude this introduction.

The Carolina and the Culture of the Common Man: Revisiting the Imperial Penal Code of 1532*

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 713-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Wiltenburg
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Legal Text ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Gender

The Carolina penal code of 1532, issued as a manual of court procedures for the Holy Roman Empire, offers an opportunity to examine connections between the legal text and broader cultural discourses. The code uses persuasive techniques that promote a vision of the rational layman as the exemplar of common sense and public order. The representations of the legal text parallel contemporary tendencies in fiction and pamphlet literature. Both authoritative and literary texts used print to promote identification with a universalized ideal, limited by class and gender but discursively constructed as common to all reasonable people.

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