Literature and Law: an Interdisciplinary Approach
ESSE- 8: LONDON 2006
29 August – 2 September 2006
Convenor: Daniela Carpi (University of Verona)
Co-convenor: Ian Ward (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Literary scholars are becoming more and more aware of how the literary texts are interspersed with legal elements. The aim of this seminar is to highlight some of the legal innuendos ingrained within some literary texts (either law concerning property, or the concept of equity contraposed to that of justice, or the representation of law and legal process, or what effects colonial and post-colonial conditions have on this relationship, or how does literature engage with law conceived as politics and power, etc.). The seminar thus aims at creating a space where these two disciplines can interfere with each other and form the occasion for new thought, within or beyond the laws of academic discipline.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go is not about law, or is it?
Jeanne Gaakeer (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
The Literature of Temple Bar
Cristina Costantini (University Of Turin)
Clarissa: a Request for Equity?
Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman (University IULM, Milan)
Towards a Comparative Law-and-literature Practice
Greta Olson (University of Freiburg)
Caring for justice: Precious Ramotswe’s ‘moral voice’ in Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series
Carla Sassi (University of Verona)
Thin Blue Lines: Police Procedurals, Social Control, and the Word of the Law
John Scaggs (University Of Limerick)
Report of the Seminar
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