UID:
edocfu_9958354093302883
Format:
1 online resource(vi,336p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2015. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110368550
Series Statement:
Law & Literature; 9
Content:
The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking human rights seriously has never been more urgent than it is today. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written in a spirit of interdisciplinarity, and are intended to make a signficant contribution to this vital and enduring debate.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Literature and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse --
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Empathy, Literature and Human Rights: The Case of Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper /
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Privacy, Blighted Lives, and a Blindspot in British Law /
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A Squeamishness about Existing: Fernando Pessoa’s Quiet Rejection of the Human in The Book of Disquiet /
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I and Another: Rethinking the Subject of Human Rights with Dostoyevsky, Bakhtin and Simondon /
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Dehumanizing the Enemy: How to Avoid Human Rights /
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Am I not a man and a brother? /
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Mental Illness and Human Rights in Patrick McGrath’s Asylum /
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The Role of Forensics in Human Rights Discourse: Kathy Reichs’s Crime Fiction and the Rights of the Dead /
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Rumpole and the Rights of Accused Terrorists /
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Reality, Theatre and Human Rights /
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The Rights and Wrongs of Marriage: Article 16.2 UDHR and the Case of Edith Dombey /
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Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters and the Cause of Female Literacy in India /
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The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, by Montagu Slater: Oral Tradition and Fundamental Rights in the Trial /
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‘n Droë Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap: André Brink and the Fundamental Rights of the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa /
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The Definition of "Linguistic Minority" /
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Rights of Humans/Rights of Nature: The Language of Environmental Rights in UN Documents /
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On Crimes, Punishments, and Words: Legal and Language Issues in Cesare Beccaria’s Works /
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Dignity and Disgrace in Law and Literature /
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Contributors --
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Index.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110374100
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110368567
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110368550
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368550
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