Jeanne Gaakeer and Francois Ost, Crossing Borders: Law, Language and Literature

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Jeanne Gaakeer and Francois Ost, Crossing Borders: Law, Language and Literature, Wolf Legal Publishers, The Netherlands, 2008.

   
 
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Jeanne Gaakeer and Francois Ost

 

Part I: Interrelations of law, language and literature

 

  •  Law and Literature: an analysis of Sophocles’ Antigone and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, by Marcelo Campos Galuppo
  • Utopian capabilities: on critical legal thinking and Cervantes’ Don Quixote, by Jom Reinhard
  • Kafka, kavka, K: the case of a hyphenated  identity, by Vera Karam de Chueiri
  • Law and essays (cronicas): the enchanting soul of the streets, by Monica Sette Lopes
  • Comprehending Contraries or Doublethink? Law, literature and the dangers of cognitive dissonance, by  Jeanne Gaakeer
  • On Law and Literature: dimensions and limits of a controversial relationship, by Marcelino Rodrìguez Molinero
  • Thought and Art in Hispanic Tradition of Legal Literature: aesthetic keys for legal interpretation, by Héctor Lòpez Bello
  • Investigative Literature- Bertolt Brecht revisited, by Lorenz Schulz
  • Hellenism and Hebraism: legal traditions and the work of Cynthia Ozick, by James Gray

Part II: New Perspectives

 

  • Hyperliterature and Law, Unity of Text, Diversity of Readings, by Andreij Kristan
  • A Little Place Before the Law: Two tales of one metaphor, by Maria Aristodemou
  • Sade and Portalis  at the foot of the Scaffold, an example of jurisfiction, by Francois Ost