Fables of the law [online] : fairy tales in a legal context / Daniela Carpi, Marett Leiboff

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Frontmatter Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Fables of the Law, a Literary Perspective Fabulous Law: Legal Fables

PART I: FABULISING LAW The Wondrous (Baroque) Gender Revolution, or the Rise and Fall of the Empire of Fairies The Haunting Memory of Law: Mystic Fables, Uncanny Presences and Normative Spectrality Political Sublime: Heterodoxy and Jurisdiction at the Origin of Modernity Mystical Bodies and Bodies of Law: On Juridical Theology and the (Re)Foundations of the West

PART II: CONTEMPORARY FABLES Narrators of Fables or Framers of the Constitution? The Acallam na Senórach Beyond Time, Place, and Law Playing with Conventions and Traditions: The Modern Legal Fairy Tale The Good Old Rule, the Catspaw and a Two-Headed Baby Ethics and Law at Play on the Football Pitch Earth Jurisprudence and the Myth of Gaia

PART III: FABLES OF FAMILY Archetypes and Family Models Divorce and the Failure of Law in Dickens’s Hard Times Bluebeard and the Polygamous Family

PART IV: LAW, MYTH AND MAGIC Fables of the Holocaust: Hansel and Gretel Let the Right Law In: True Blood, the Twilight Saga and The Passage as Lex Vampirica Tales of Terror: The Pillowman and the Violence of the Virtual The Fable of the Bees in Contemporary Penal Law Summons, Prophecies, Possession and Madness: Intersections of Law and Magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell An Invented Executive: The Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter Law and Magic: King Arthur and the Making of a Myth

Contributors Subject index

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