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The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises
Theodore Ziolkowski
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Description for The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises
Paperback. Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice, the eighteenth-century codification controversy in the works of Kleist, the modern debate between "pure" and "free" law in Kafka's The Trial and other fin-de-siecle ... Read more
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice, the eighteenth-century codification controversy in the works of Kleist, the modern debate between "pure" and "free" law in Kafka's The Trial and other fin-de-siecle ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691114705
SKU
V9780691114705
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About Theodore Ziolkowski
Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He has published ten previous books with Princeton University Press, including "The View from the Tower" and "The Sin of Knowledge".
Reviews for The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises
Winner of the 1998 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa "An incisive and useful study... Theodore Ziolkowski has brought his broad interdisciplinary knowledge and discerning critical skills to [this] wide-ranging study."
Robert Hauptman, World Literature Today "A sweeping and intriguing handbook of law, literature, and history."
Robert F. Barsky, Literary Research/Recherche Litteraire "Informed and original... This challenging and engaging study has much ... Read more
Robert Hauptman, World Literature Today "A sweeping and intriguing handbook of law, literature, and history."
Robert F. Barsky, Literary Research/Recherche Litteraire "Informed and original... This challenging and engaging study has much ... Read more