The Island Metaphor in Literature and Law
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Daniela Carpi
Daniela Carpi, Honorary Professor of the University of Verona, Member of Academia Europaea, Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University in Australia, Managing Editor of Polemos, a Journal of Law, Literature and Culture, Editor of the series Law and Literature published by DeGruyter. Her latest publication: ed., Monsters and Monstrosity: From the Canon to the Anti-Canon. Literary and Juridical Subversions, DeGruyter, 2019.
Abstract
The island embodies a new and subversive geopolitical area. All modern juridical systems are the result of a catastrophe emerging from a state of exception: those who reach an island are in fact survivors of a wreckage, be it physical, spiritual, or cultural. These assertions are the basis for the creation of literary islands, themselves the result of a wreckage, exiles, of a separation from a civilization with its own juridical systems, a disruption of a known system, of a catastrophe, whether physical, moral, political or social. The creation of an island invites a re-examination of the old relationships concerning the juridical, the political, and the theological.
About the author
Daniela Carpi, Honorary Professor of the University of Verona, Member of Academia Europaea, Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University in Australia, Managing Editor of Polemos, a Journal of Law, Literature and Culture, Editor of the series Law and Literature published by DeGruyter. Her latest publication: ed., Monsters and Monstrosity: From the Canon to the Anti-Canon. Literary and Juridical Subversions, DeGruyter, 2019.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Focus: Islands and Insularity: Between Law, Geography, and Fiction
- Islands and Insularity: Between Law, Geography, and Fiction
- The Island Metaphor in Literature and Law
- Between Islands: Colonial Legacies and Cultural Imaginaries
- Insularity, Identity, and Alterity in Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves
- Micro Remote Islands: Lands of Freedom or Lands of Despotism?
- Financial Markets as Financial Systems: A Philosophical Dialogue between Offshore Tax Haven Islands and Systemic Failures
- Interdisciplinarity 3.0: The Hub of the Universe or Fantasy Island?
- Research
- On (not) Watching The Lady in Number 6: Digital Holocaust Film, Copyright Infringement and the Obligation to Remember
- Along the Path Towards E-Democracy: The Digital Age and Its ‘Models’
- Law, Narrative and Critique in Contemporary Verbatim Theatre
- Book Reviews
- James Harrington: an Intellectual Biography
- Towards a Theatrical Jurisprudence
