Interrelations Between Law and Culture: Iain M. Banks's The Player of Games
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Francesca Vitali
Francesca Vitali is a Ph.D. candidate in English Studies at the University of Verona. Her research fields include Renaissance literature, Contemporary Literature, Law and Literature, Science and Literature, Law, Religion and Literature. She is a member of AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura), AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) and ASLCH (Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities). She has published essays on Christopher Marlowe, Alan E. Nourse and Bram Stoker.
Abstract
Law and culture constitute a single interrelated entity, a basis on which our society is built, and together they provide the social rules we need to profitably interact with other human beings. In Iain M. Banks's novel The Player of Games law and culture incessantly intermingle; on one hand, the Culture's cultural rules seem to embody the best solution for a multicultural society, on the other hand the Empire of Azad's hierarchical structure strongly relies on fixed and immutable laws. What happens when these highly different systems of rules clash against each other?
About the author
Francesca Vitali is a Ph.D. candidate in English Studies at the University of Verona. Her research fields include Renaissance literature, Contemporary Literature, Law and Literature, Science and Literature, Law, Religion and Literature. She is a member of AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura), AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) and ASLCH (Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities). She has published essays on Christopher Marlowe, Alan E. Nourse and Bram Stoker.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Focus
- Focus: Law, Literature and (Popular) Culture
- State v. Estate: Jane Austen and the Law of Inheritance
- Women, Property and Identity in Victorian Legal Culture: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
- Interrelations Between Law and Culture: Iain M. Banks's The Player of Games
- Working at the Intersection of the Humanities, Law and Technology: Digital Humanities and the ``Two Cultures''
- For a New Semantics of Differences: Cultural Exception and the Law
- True Blood: Multicultural Vampires in Contemporary Society
- Research
- Legal Liturgies: The Aesthetic Foundation of Positive Law
- Modernity, Experience, and the Law in The Education of Henry Adams
- Violation of Human Rights in Holocaust/Post-Holocaust Era
- Defining Legal Vagueness: A Contradiction in Terms?
- Book Review
- Book Review
