Law, Text, Terror

Informationen zum Autor Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University. He has written extensively in the associated areas of public law, legal theory and international order, and has held visiting positions at universities in Canada, the US, France, Italy and Finland. Klappentext Ian Ward places contemporary political and jurisprudential responses to terrorism within a broader literary, cultural and historical context. Zusammenfassung Ian Ward places contemporary political and jurisprudential responses to terrorism within a broader intellectual context! deploying a variety of literary! cultural and historical texts and resources. Each chapter explores a particular historical experience of terror and terrorism! discussing the immediate political and jurisprudential responses alongside particular literary or cultural texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Terror and the sense sublime; 2. Angry Jove; 3. Voices of the terrified; 4. Where are the women?; 5. Stark humanity; 6. The stuff of nightmares; 7. The devil's big day.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Ward, Ian (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Ward
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521519571
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51957-1
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Law in Context; Law in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, Terrorism, armed struggle, Literary studies: general, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law