Figures of Law - Studies in the Interference of Law and Literature

The main objective of this book is to search for such figures of law in literature and media representation, which represent human weakness and futility on one hand, but mirror on the other hand certain aesthetic and rhetoric qualities of the law phenomenon; these figures of law often appear to have fallen outside the Law's conventional reach, while at the same time in a defiant way appealing to it. Privileged by their de-centred perspective they manifest and Measure the complexities, capacities and limitations of the human case of law. The 'law of the Law" (Derrida), it seems, has an essentially poetic quality. Figures of Law seeks to open the literary discourse on the human condition of law. It investigates literary ways to mirror and articulate the question of law split between sovereign power and human futility, between violence, force, and trauma.

About the author

Gert Hofmann wurde 1931 in Limbach / Sachsen geboren. Nach dem Studium in Leipzig und Freiburg lehrte er an mehreren Universitäten im Ausland Literaturwissenschaft, bis er sich als freier Autor in Erding bei München niederließ. Sein Werk wurde unter anderem mit dem Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis und zuletzt mit dem Literaturpreis der Landeshauptstadt München ausgezeichnet. Vier Wochen nach Abgabe des Manuskripts für seinen letzten Roman "Die kleine Stechardin" starb Gert Hofmann 1993 in Erding.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ger Hofmann (Editor), Gert Hofmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Francke
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9783772082115
• ISBN: 978-3-7720-8211-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Weight: 422 g
• Series: Edition Kairos; Edition Kairos 3; Edition Kairos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Englisch, Anglistik / Literaturwissenschaft