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1 online resource (xxxviii, 238 pages) |
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Chapter 1 THE YEAR 2000 -- THE EMPTY CITY: JG BALLARD'S SUPER-CANNES AND JM COETZEE'S DISGRACE -- chapter 2 THE 1890s -- THE EMPTY WOOD: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES RAPE, SEDUCTION AND PROVOCATION: EFFACEMENT OF IDENTITY AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE -- chapter 'Seduction' and 'rape': blurred conceptions -- chapter Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 'the facts' and three trial-narratives -- chapter (Narrating) the socio-legal nexus -- chapter 3 THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY -- THE EMPTY ROOM 'THE SUBJECT' -- WOOLF, JOYCE AND THE VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA'S CLAIM -- chapter 4 THE 1940s -- THE EMPTY WAR: GRAHAM GREEN'S THE MINISTRY OF FEAR AND ELIZABETH BOWEN'S THE HEAT OF THE DAY -- chapter DOMESTIC HISTORY, 'FABULAR' HISTORY, HISTORICISM -- chapter MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE CAVE: THE ROLE OF WOMAN -- chapter 5 THE 1960s -- THE EMPTY SHELL: JOHN FOWLES'S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN AND / IRIS MURDOCH'S BRUNO'S DREAM -- chapter 6 THE 1980s -- THE EMPTY ISLAND: JM COETZEE'S FOE -- The space of the social contract -- chapter 7 INCONCLUSION -- PART I EMPTY SIGNIFIERS INTRODUCTION: HUMAN NATURE; HUMAN NURTURE; PSYCHE -- chapter HUMAN NATURE -- chapter THE PSYCHE -- chapter 8 CONCLUSION -- NEGOTIATING EMPTINESS -- chapter 'THE WOMAN WHO IS THE DOOR, THE MAN WITHOUT THE KEY ... ' -- chapter THE EXISTENTIAL AND THE NORMATIVE -- chapter BIBLIOGRAPHY -- chapter The 'German Princess' papers |
| Summary |
Utilising literature as a serious source of challenges to questions in philosophy and law, this book provides a fresh perspective not only upon the inculcation of the legal subject, but also upon the relationship between modernism, postmodernism and how such concepts might evolve in the construction of community ethics. The creation and role of the legal subject is just one aspect of jurisprudential enquiry now attracting much attention. How do moral values act upon the subject? How do moral 'systems' impinge upon the subject - jurist and judged - throughout the 20th century, when re |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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| SUBJECT |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy, Thomas) fast |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Law in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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Law in literature
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Literatur
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Recht
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Rechtswetenschap.
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Feminisme.
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Literatuur.
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Filosofie.
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Normen (menswetenschappen)
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Geschichte 1900-2000.
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Englisch.
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135340223 |
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1135340226 |
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1843144247 |
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9781843144243 |
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1135340218 |
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9781135340216 |
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1280165375 |
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9781280165375 |
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9786610165377 |
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6610165378 |
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