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Stamatina Dimakopoulou •
Christina Dokou • Efterpi Mitsi (eds.)
The Letter of the Law:
Literature, Justice and the Other
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. X, 276 pp., 1 b/w fig.
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his book combines legal as well as political
and theoretical questions in a variety
of contexts, ranging from legal issues
in the early modern period to critical explorations
of law/s, justice and textuality in contemporary
literature and culture. The essays
in this volume offer critical perspectives on
the role of literature and theory in relation
to the law and explore otherness and justice
in early modern, Victorian and contemporary
texts, postmodern theory, colonial and
postcolonial contexts and popular culture.
Examining how legal and literary narratives
construct, repress, legitimise, but also enable
the Other, this volume offers new insights
into forms of alterity, marginality and exclusion
and articulates the imperative need to
reconfigure issues of justice as always intertwined
with the Other.
Contents: Costas Douzinas: The Letter
of the Law and the Spirit of Literature • Stamatina
Dimakopoulou/Christina Dokou/Efterpi
Mitsi: The Other as the (Purloined) Letter
of the Law • Kinga Földváry: Outlaw or
Above the Law? Legal Issues in William Harrison’s
Description of England • Karin Boklund-
Lagopoulou: Law, Justice and Poetry in Faerie
Land • Zoe Detsi-Diamanti: Legal Exclusion
vs. Republican Inclusion in Judith S.
Murray’s The Traveller Returned (1796) • Nic
Panagopoulos: Sovereign Law and Bare Life
in Bleak House • Sheila Teahan: The Remedy
of Law • Ava Baron: Happy Ending for Women
Workers, or Tragedy for the Workplace? Cultural
and Legal Narratives of Sexual Harassment
in the United States • Jeffrey L. Spear:
Was She This Name? Law, Literature and the
«Devadasi» • Helen Nicholson: «Portia in Petticoats»:
The Legal Performances of Georgina
Weldon • Christina Dokou: Courtroom Humour,
Performative Justice: The Case of Harper
Lee vs. Fannie Flagg • Maria Vara: «Victim
Precipitation» in the Anti-detective Fiction
of Muriel Spark and Diane Johnson • Yannis
Stamos: Literature Before the Law: Derrida
on the Democratic «Right to Say Everything»
• Elina Staikou: Burning Dead Letters: Bartleby,
Law and Literature in the Nuclear Age
• Shela Sheikh: Bartleby – Derrida: Literature,
Law and Responsibility • Cláudia Trabuco:
Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur? Authorship, Originality
and the Work of Vergílio Ferreira •
Anna-Maria Piskopani: Reality-flirting Literature
as an Aliud in Defamation and Privacy
Law.
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Jane Fenoulhet
Nomadic Literature
ees Nooteboom (born 1933) is a writer
of fiction, poetry and travel literature.
Translated into at least thirty-four languages,
his work raises important questions about
the mobility of literary texts and invites a
new theoretical approach, for to read Nooteboom
straightforwardly as a Dutch author
would be to do him an injustice. In this book,
his fiction and travel writing are discussed
on the basis of his English oeuvre, while the
chapter on his poetry moves between Dutch
and English editions. The first part of the
study reflects on texts crossing boundaries
and the ways in which literary theory and
history have dealt with them. The author
then brings nomadic philosophy to bear on
translation studies, considering translation
as the process through which a literary work
is welcomed into a new culture. The second
Efterpi Mitsi is an Associate Professor
in English Literature and Culture at the National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
with publications on early modern and
travel literature.
Christina Dokou is Assistant Professor
of American Literature and Culture at the National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Her areas of interest, on which she has
published articles and anthology chapters,
include comparative literature, American
folklore, comics and gender studies.
Stamatina Dimakopoulou is Assistant
Professor in American Literature and Culture
at the National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens, with publications in the
field of modernist studies.
Cees Nooteboom and his Writing
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013.
247 pp., 8 b/w ill.
European Connections. Vol. 35
Edited by Peter Collier
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part of the book argues that Nooteboom’s
themes and preoccupations are themselves
nomadic, with their philosophical treatment
of the subjective experiences of death, writing,
love, sex and crisis as opportunities for
becoming and self-exploration. Nooteboom’s
imaginative worlds are constructed in language
that is playful, laconic, meditative,
witty and yet, especially in the poetry, deadly
serious.
Jane Fenoulhet is Professor of Dutch
Studies at University College London. She
works on modern literature in Dutch, literary
translation and language pedagogy. Her
recent books include Making the Personal
Political: Dutch Women Writers 1919-1970
(2007) and Mobility and Localisation in Language
Learning (2010, co-edited with Cristina
Ros i Solé).
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