Europe in Law and Literature: Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation

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Europe in Law and Literature

Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation

Edited by: Laura Anina Zander and Nicola Kramp-Seidel

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 23 | Law & Literature

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Europe is a broad and multifaceted construct, variously understood as a geographical, political, legal, institutional, social, or cultural formation. It is characterized by numerous conflicts and processes of negotiation that have accompanied or sustained the development of normative orders and divergent conceptions of law, both in relation to individual states and to Europe as a whole. The same applies to the field of literature, language, and aesthetics; numerous myths and ideologies have shaped today’s understanding of Europe and still support it today. This volume examines how such processes were legally structured, and literarily addressed, criticized, and complemented. Its interdisciplinary perspective and open and dynamic, both dialogical and dialectical format intends to replicate the fragmented, sometimes conflicting, but always productive mosaic of voices, ideas, and concepts that have constituted and still constitute Europe, whether in the past, present, or future. Instead of resolving any of the complexities and contradictions that frame discussions on law, literature, and Europe, it aims to induce further engagement and confrontations with new and alternative visions of Europe.

Author / Editor information

Dr. Laura A. Zander, CRC Law and Literature, Muenster University, Muenster, Germany; Dr. Nicola Kramp-Seidel, CRC Law and Literature, Muenster University, Muenster, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Europa Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Laura A. Zander and Nicola Kramp-Seidel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Concepts
Constructing Europe
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Comparative Law and the Style of Legal Systems Pier Giuseppe Monateri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
The Europe of European Literary History Walter Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Constituting Europe
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Constituting Europe in Verse? Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Leavis Carroll’s Alice in Brexitland (2017): Children’s Literature’s Juridical Perspective on Brexit and the Young Adult Citizen in the Narrative of the Law Sidia Fiorato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
Contrasting Europe
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Strength as Recognition of One’s Weakness: Identity Constructions in Early Europe Silvia Reuvekamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Some Notes on the Role of Europe in the Development of Modern Islamic Legal Discourse Norbert Oberauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Defending Europe
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
The “Spirit” of Europe in Literature between the Two World Wars Alberto Scerbo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt’s View on Europe Nicola Kramp-Seidel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Part II: Commitments
Rule of Law
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
European Criminal Justice Dominik Brodowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
The Inaccessible Rule-of-Law Paradise: Europe and Law in Modern Belarusian Poetry Tetyana Dagovych Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Legal Actors
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
Citizenship and Advocacy: The Jurist as Parrhesiast Massimo La Torre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Driven by Ressentiment and Sophistry or – Indeed, Parrhesia? The Protagonist as Lawyer in Ukrainian Fiction Alfred Sproede Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Justice
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Pitaval’s Journeys: On the European Tradition of Literary Legal Case Collections Melanie Foik and Kathrin Löhr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
The Court Trial in Dostoevskii’s The Brothers Karamazov, or, The Rejection of the Rule of Law and of European Principles Irina Wutsdorff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Borders
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Like Stone Rafts in the Ocean: Reading José Saramago in Times of the Pandemic Paola Chiarella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
The Naturalization Process and Narrating Where You Come From: An Exploration of Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft Irina Wutsdorff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Part III: Concerns
Human Rights
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Human Rights in UK and the Future of Europe Jonathan Mance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
A Host(ile) Union? Writing in Solidarity against a Hostile Environment Laura A. Zander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Migration
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
Europe, Non-Discrimination, and Migration Thomas Gutmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
“Is There Still Such Thing as a Safe Space?” States in Times of Global Migration and Climate Change Matteo Nicolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Citizenship
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
Alternative Notions of Belonging: (European) Community and Citizenship in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet Katharina Pink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Poetry from the Camps: Deconstructing Eurocentric and Colonial Remains in Citizenship Laws Jayana Jain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Digital Self-Determination
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
Creativity Incorporated: Google, Netflix, and the Global Copyright Sphere Peter Schneck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Freedom, Human Dignity, and Digital Self- Determination: European Perspectives in Speculative Fiction Johannes Ueberfeldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
Epilogue
My European Poem Julia Cimafiejeva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

May 8, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9783111075693

Hardcover published on:

May 8, 2023

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111072029

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

14

Main content:

401

Coloured Illustrations:

1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111075693

eBook ISBN: 9783111075693

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111072029

Keywords for this book

European identity; European values; borders and migration; civil and human rights

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Scholars of Law and Literature; Citizenship Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Diaspora Studies; Migration Studies, Law

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